Things That We Drink To

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Things That We Drink To
Things That We Drink To by Morgan Evans.jpg
Studio album by
Morgan Evans
Released12 October 2018
StudioNashville, Tennessee
Genre Country
Label Warner Music Nashville, Warner Australasia
Producer Chris DeStefano
Morgan Evans chronology
Morgan Evans EP
(2018)		Things That We Drink To
(2018)
Singles from Things That We Drink To
  1. "Kiss Somebody"
    Released: 21 July 2017
  2. "I Do"
    Released: 8 December 2017 [1]
  3. "Day Drunk"
    Released: 8 June 2018
  4. "Young Again"
    Released: May 2019 [2]

Things That We Drink To is the second studio album, and first American released by Australian country music singer Morgan Evans. The album was announced on 31 August 2018 and was released on 12 October 2018. [3] The project is a musical reflection of Evans' journey from Australia to Nashville. Evans co-wrote each track alongside the album's producer, Chris DeStefano. The two played every instrument heard on the sonically diverse project, showcasing Evans' musicianship in addition to his adept songwriting. [4]

Contents

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, the album won the ARIA Award for ARIA Award for Best Country Album. [5]

Background

In 2016, Evans travelled from Australia to Nashville, Tennessee to make a new home in the United States. Morgan began songwriting and working alongside some of the industry's best who've helped him turn this journey into 11 songs. Evans told Taste of Country "I've learned to be more honest and tell my story rather than the story that I think someone wants to hear." Evans wrote hundreds of songs and culled the parts of his identity he hadn't yet shared into an album. [6] Since moving to Nashville, Evans married fellow country star Kelsea Ballerini, embarked on his first American tour and released his first U.S. radio single, "Kiss Somebody" and lost his manager Rob Potts who died in a motor cycle accident in October 2017. [7]

Critical reception

Taste of Country said "Celebration is an overall theme of Things That We Drink To as Evans looks back on the times that have defined him since he started building a new life on the other side of the world." [6]

Chris Parton from Rolling Stone said called the album a "...breezy mix of up-tempo jams, lovestruck anthems and loop-driven creative mojo." adding "Things That We Drink To a truly revealing debut, both personally and artistically." [8]

Commercial performance

Things That We Drink To debuted at No. 9 on Top Country Albums with 4,000 copies sold, or 7,000 in equivalent album units. [9] The album has sold 5,200 copies in the United States as of November 2018. [10]

Track listing

From Nash Country Daily: [11]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."American" Morgan Evans, Chris DeStefano, Josh Osborne 3:03
2."Kiss Somebody"Evans, DeStefano, Osborne3:32
3."I Do"Evans, DeStefano, Ashley Gorley 3:29
4."Song for the Summer"Evans, DeStefano, David Hodges 3:32
5."Day Drunk"Evans, DeStefano, Lindy Robbins3:14
6."Dance with Me" (featuring Kelsea Ballerini)Evans, DeStefano3:19
7."Me on You"Evans, DeStefano, Osborne)3:26
8."Things That We Drink To"Evans, DeStefano, Osborne3:08
9."We Dream"Evans, DeStefano, Jaren Johnston, Jon Nite 3:36
10."Everything Changes"Evans, DeStefano, Blair Daly3:17
11."Young Again"Evans, DeStefano, Josh Kear 2:55

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [12] 5
US Billboard 200 [13] 106
US Country Albums ( Billboard ) [14] 9

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for Things That We Drink To
Chart (2018)Position
Australian Country Albums (ARIA) [15] 18
Chart (2019)Position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [16] 94
Australian Country Albums (ARIA) [17] 4
Chart (2020)Position
Australian Country Albums (ARIA) [18] 13
Chart (2021)Position
Australian Country Albums (ARIA) [19] 16
Chart (2022)Position
Australian Country Albums (ARIA) [20] 18
Chart (2023)Position
Australian Country Albums (ARIA) [21] 41

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelCatalogue
Australia12 October 2018 [4] [22] Warner Music Nashville, Warner Australasia 9362490549

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