You Should Be Here (album)

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You Should Be Here
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 6, 2016 (2016-05-06)
Recorded2015–16
Genre Country
Length41:32
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer
Cole Swindell chronology
Down Home Sessions II
(2015)
You Should Be Here
(2016)
Down Home Sessions III
(2016)
Singles from You Should Be Here
  1. "You Should Be Here"
    Released: December 14, 2015
  2. "Middle of a Memory"
    Released: May 2, 2016
  3. "Flatliner"
    Released: January 23, 2017 [1]
  4. "Stay Downtown"
    Released: September 5, 2017
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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You Should Be Here is the second studio album by American country music artist Cole Swindell. It was released on May 6, 2016 via Warner Bros. Nashville. The lead single, its title track, was released to radio on December 14, 2015. The song became Swindell's fourth number-one hit after it reached the top of both the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts of Billboard magazine. [3] The track listing was announced on April 4. [4] The track "Flatliner" peaked at number two on US Country Airplay in 2017. "Flatliner" also hit number one on Mediabase country radio singles chart and was most played and heard August 6–12 receiving ~8,302 spins (+600) and ~52.136 million audience impressions. [5]

Contents

Commercial performance

You Should Be Here debuted at number two on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, selling 65,500 copies in its first week. [6] [7] It also debuted at number six on US Billboard 200 chart. [8] On February 21, 2017, the album was certified gold for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 500,000 units. As of June 2018, the album has sold 318,000 copies in the United States. [9]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Flatliner" (featuring Dierks Bentley)2:57
2."Middle of a Memory"3:47
3."Broke Down"
3:24
4."Home Game"
4:09
5."Up"
3:14
6."Party Wasn't Over"3:47
7."Stay Downtown"
  • Matt Dragstrem
  • Cole Taylor
3:23
8."You Should Be Here"
  • Swindell
  • Gorley
3:11
9."Stars"
3:20
10."Making My Way to You"
  • Swindell
  • Dragstrem
  • Taylor
  • Carter
3:29
11."No Can Left Behind"
  • Swindell
  • Carter
  • Brandon Kinney
3:48
12."Remember Boys"
  • Andrew Dorff
  • Tursi
3:03
Total length:41:32
Target and iTunes edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Hoppin'"3:23
14."Gettin' Forgotten"
3:16

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic [10]

Charts

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart positionsSales
US Hot Country
[20]
US Country Airplay
[21]
US
[22]
CAN Country
[23]
CAN
[24]
2015"You Should Be Here"1131367
2016"Middle of a Memory"3146381
  • US: 310,000
2017"Flatliner"102564
  • US: 223,000
"Stay Downtown"3428

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [26] Platinum1,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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