What Ifs & Maybes

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What Ifs & Maybes
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Studio album by
Tom Grennan
Released16 June 2023 (2023-06-16)
Recorded2021–2023
Length42:12
Label
Producer
Tom Grennan chronology
Evering Road
(2021)		What Ifs & Maybes
(2023)		 Everywhere I Went, Led Me to Where I Didn't Want to Be
(2025)
Singles from What Ifs & Maybes
  1. "Remind Me"
    Released: 18 March 2022
  2. "All These Nights"
    Released: 15 July 2022
  3. "Not Over Yet"
    Released: 5 August 2022
  4. "Lionheart (Fearless)"
    Released: 21 October 2022
  5. "You Are Not Alone"
    Released: 16 December 2022
  6. "Here"
    Released: 27 January 2023
  7. "How Does It Feel"
    Released: 3 May 2023

What Ifs & Maybes is the third studio album by the English singer-songwriter Tom Grennan. It was released on 16 June 2023 by Insanity Records and Sony Music Entertainment. Grennan began recording the album in April 2021 and finished in July 2022, during which time he collaborated with musicians including Jamie Scott, Lostboy, and The Six. The album was preceded by the singles "Remind Me", "All These Nights", "You Are Not Alone", "Here" and "How Does It Feel" and was supported by a UK arena tour that began in March 2023. The digital version of the album features collaborations with KSI and Joel Corry.

Contents

Background and promotion

In May 2021, Grennan revealed in an interview with Fleur East that he was already in the studio writing material for his third album with Jamie Scott, Mike Needle and LostBoy, despite it being only months after releasing his second album Evering Road . He said "I'm writing and riding the wave that I'm on at the moment. It's been a pretty crazy few months from getting a Number 1 [album] to 'Little Bit of Love' blowing up. I think I'm in the eye of the storm." [1] Towards the end of 2021, Grennan began writing songs for others, which began with Westlife's single "Starlight". [2]

Upon the release of the album's second single "All These Nights" being released, which was produced by songwriting collective The Six, Grennan expressed how the song was a teaser for the sound of his third album. On Nick Grimshaw's new podcast "Dish", he stated, "I went away to the countryside and had two weeks away and we would just write. And it came about three in the morning where we were just like, we need excitement. No one needs another bloody ballad in their lives. Do you know what I mean? No way. For me, I was like, I want to have fun and I want to change up my sound. I feel like this whole new record, especially with "All These Nights", is the start where I'm introducing people to my new sound. So, it's exciting, it's fun, it's up-tempo and it just feels like, a different me and I'm excited. Some people might not like it, some people will hopefully love it. But we'll see where it goes." [3] He also said that the album was mostly finished and that his current partner Daniella Carraturo had been the inspiration behind the majority of the songs. [3]

During the latter half of 2022, Grennan took part in two collaborations, being KSI's "Not Over Yet" and Joel Corry's "Lionheart (Fearless)", which were both revealed later to be on the Apple Music edition of the album. The latter became the England football team's anthem during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. [4] Amongst the collaborations, Grennan announced the album title as What Ifs & Maybes along with a UK arena tour, beginning in March 2023, [5] which he stated is his biggest tour in his career to date. [6] He described the album, in reference to its title, as about "going with your gut, not your head, because you never know what's going to happen". [7] In January 2023, upon the album's fourth single "Here" being released, the album became available for pre-order on CD, vinyl and cassette formats through his official website. [8]

Track listing

What Ifs & Maybes standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."How Does It Feel"
  • Falk
  • Ryan Linvill
2:23
2."Remind Me"
 Lostboy 3:31
3."Crown Your Love"
3:04
4."Here"
  • Riley
  • Thompson
  • Lostboy
3:15
5."Before You"
Lostboy2:57
6."Sleeping Rough"
  • Grennan
  • Mann
  • Wells
Wells3:20
7."This Side of the Room"
3:05
8."Psychedelic Kisses"
  • Wells
  • Bagnall
2:57
9."All These Nights"
  • The Six
  • Andrew Wells
  • Needle [v]
  • Scott [v]
2:34
10."Problems"
  • O. Green
  • Linvill
3:27
11."Head Up"
3:12
12."Love Don't Cost a Thing"
  • Crew
  • Priddy
2:43
13."Someone I Used to Know"
  • Grennan
  • Needle
  • Bryer
  • Wells
  • Bryer
2:58
14."You Are Not Alone"
  • Grennan
  • Scott
  • Needle
2:46
Total length:42:12
What Ifs & Maybes digital bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
15."Unbreak a Broken Love"
  • Grennan
  • Needle
  • Bryer
  • Bryer
  • Wells
2:41
16."Not Over Yet" (KSI featuring Tom Grennan)
2:35
17."Lionheart (Fearless)" (with Joel Corry)
  • Grennan
  • Needle
  • Scott
  • Gale
  • James Murray
  • Mustafa Omer
  • Joel Corry
  • Thompson
  • Neave Applebaum
  • Corry
  • Digital Farm Animals
  • Thompson
  • Applebaum
  • Needle [v]
  • Scott [v]
  • Hannah [v]
3:06
Total length:50:34

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes [9] and Tidal. [10] [11]

Musicians

  • Tom Grennan – lead vocals (all tracks), backing vocals (tracks 2, 9)
  • Ollie Green – backing vocals (1, 10), piano (10), synthesizers (11)
  • Ryan Linvill – guitars, drums, programming (1, 10); additional instruments (10)
  • Carl Falk – guitars, backing vocals (1)
  • Cleo Tighe – backing vocals (1)
  • Peter Rycroft – programming (2, 4, 5), backing vocals (2, 5); drum programming, instruments (2); drums (4, 5), pianos (4); guitars, synthesizers (5)
  • James "Yami" Bell – backing vocals (2)
  • Andrew Wells – bass, guitar, synthesizers (3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15); acoustic guitar (3, 6), piano (3, 13, 15), percussion (6, 8, 11, 13), backing vocals (6, 8), programming (9), drums (11, 15), string arrangement (13)
  • Rob Humphreys – drums (3, 13)
  • Lewis Thompson – programming (4, 17); bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, synthesizers (17)
  • Jordan Riley – backing vocals, pianos, programming, drums (4)
  • James Essien – backing vocals (4)
  • Gerard O'Connell – backing vocals (4)
  • Tom Mann – backing vocals (5, 6, 12)
  • Mike Needle – backing vocals (5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17)
  • Emmanuel Cervantes – drums (6)
  • Jamie Scott – backing vocals (7, 9, 17); piano, programming, synthesizers (7); string arrangement (14)
  • Daniel Bryer – backing vocals (7, 13, 15); programming, synthesizers (13, 15)
  • Dan Grech – additional programming (7)
  • Scott Seiver – drums (8, 9)
  • Charley Bagnall – synthesizers, backing vocals (8)
  • Anthony Rossomando – backing vocals (8)
  • Rick Boardman – backing vocals, synthesizers (9)
  • Dino Medanhodzic – synthesizers (9)
  • Jonny Lattimer – backing vocals (10)
  • Wayne Hector – backing vocals (11)
  • Luke Fitton – backing vocals (11)
  • Dan Priddy – backing vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, programming (12)
  • Mark Crew – keyboards, programming (12)
  • Jack Duxbury – guitars (12)
  • Rosie Danvers – string arrangement (14)
  • Wired Strings [A] – strings (14)
  • Digital Farm Animals – backing vocals (16, 17); drums, keyboards, synthesizers (17)
  • Sam Brennan – additional guitar, keyboards, synthesizer (16)
  • Tom Hollings – bass, drum programming (16)
  • Sara Boe – backing vocals (16)
  • Paul Hesketh – guitar (16)
  • KSI – vocals (16)
  • Neave Applebaum – bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, programming, synthesizers (17)
  • Harrison Atlee – backing vocals (17)
  • Leanna Leid – backing vocals (17)
  • Liza-Marie Jennings – backing vocals (17)
  • Monique Meade – backing vocals (17)
  • Zehra Lewis-Wright – backing vocals (17)
  • Joel Corry – programming (17)

Technical and visuals

  • Dan Grech – mixing (1, 2, 5–7, 10, 13, 14, 15)
  • Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing (3, 4, 8, 9, 16)
  • Chris Laws – mixing (3, 4, 8, 9, 16)
  • Mark Crew – mixing, engineering (12)
  • Kevin Grainger – mixing, mastering (17)
  • Chris Gehringer – mastering (1–13, 15)
  • Randy Merrill – mastering (14)
  • Stuart Hawkes – mastering (16)
  • Andrew Wells – engineering (3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15)
  • Luke Pickering – engineering (8)
  • Dan Priddy – engineering (12)
  • Martin Hannah – engineering (14)
  • Scott Seiver – drum engineering (9)
  • Isabel Gracefield – string session engineering (14)
  • Ollie Green – additional vocal recording (1)
  • Matt Wolach – mixing assistance (3, 4, 8, 9, 16)
  • Kieran Beardmore – mixing assistance (3, 4, 8, 9, 16)
  • Charlie Holmes – mixing assistance (3, 4, 8, 9, 16)
  • Connor Panayi – strings assistance (14)
  • Nathanael Graham – engineering assistance (3, 6, 13, 15)
  • Luke Brickett – artwork

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for What Ifs & Maybes
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [17] Gold100,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notes

  1. ↑ Wired Strings consists of violinists Patrick Kiernan, Hayley Pomfrett, Ellie Stanford, Sally Jackson, Charis Jenson, Jenny Sacha, Miles Brett, Raja Halder, Martyn Jackson, and Elodie Chousmer-Howelles; violists Nick Barr, Meghan Cassidy, and Emma Owens; cellists Rosie Danvers and Bryony James; and double bassist Richard Pryce.

References

  1. ↑ Rees, Natalie (12 May 2021). "Tom Grennan reveals exciting details of third album". Planet Radio. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  2. ↑ Griffiths, George (14 October 2021). "Westlife announce new album Wild Dreams and release new single Starlight". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Tom Grennan teases new direction on third album". music-news.com. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  4. ↑ "Joel Corry Ft. Tom Grennan & Martin Tyler – Lionheart (Come On England)". Day Iron. 22 November 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Reilly, Nick (28 September 2022). "Tom Grennan announces new album 'What Ifs & Maybes' and UK arena tour". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  6. ↑ @Tom_Grennan (28 September 2022). "My new album "What Ifs & Maybes" is coming in 2023!..." (Tweet). Retrieved 3 February 2023– via Twitter.
  7. ↑ Griffiths, George (28 September 2022). "Tom Grennan announces new album What Ifs & Maybes and UK tour dates for 2023". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  8. ↑ "Tom Grennan | The Official Store". tomgrennanmusic.com. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  9. 1 2 What Ifs & Maybes (Media notes). Tom Grennan. Insanity Records, Sony Music. 16 June 2023.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  10. ↑ "What Ifs & Maybes / Tom Grennan / Credits". Tidal . Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  11. ↑ "Not Over Yet (feat. Tom Grennan) / KSI / Credits". Tidal . Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  12. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Tom Grennan – What Ifs & Maybes" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  13. ↑ "Official Irish Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  14. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  15. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  16. ↑ "End of Year Albums Chart – 2023". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  17. ↑ "British album certifications – Tom Grennan – What Ifs & Maybes". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 5 January 2024.
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