Young Love & Saturday Nights

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Young Love & Saturday Nights
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 22, 2024 (2024-03-22)
Recorded2022
Genre Country
Length55:00
Label RCA Nashville
Producer
Chris Young chronology
Famous Friends
(2021)
Young Love & Saturday Nights
(2024)
Singles from Young Love & Saturday Nights
  1. "Looking for You"
    Released: January 12, 2023
  2. "Young Love & Saturday Nights"
    Released: October 2, 2023

Young Love & Saturday Nights is the ninth studio album by American country music artist Chris Young. It was released on March 22, 2024, by RCA Records Nashville. The album was produced by Young, Corey Crowder and Chris DeStefano. "Looking for You" and its title track preceded the album as singles.

Contents

Background

Young began working on the album in May 2022, with "Looking for You". [1] Describing the album Young says that he felt like the album needed to be for him, and "It's a little louder, a little more raw. Even the stripped-down songs are heavier." [2]

Composition

Young co-wrote all but three of the album's eighteen tracks. The album's lead single "Looking for You" was written by Young, James McNair, Emily Weisband, and Chris DeStefano with production done by DeStefano. McNair and Weisband who came up with the title of the song, began working on the it before Young and DeStefano got to it. The verses of the song mainly rely on an I-IV chord pattern, although DeStefano suggested adding an iv chord at the end of the song's title. The song was almost complete when DeStefano started working on the track. [1] The title track, "Young Love & Saturday Nights", written by Ashley Gorley, Jesse Frasure and Josh Thompson, was inspired by the guitar riff of David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel", and gave Bowie posthumous credit. [2]

Release

Young Love & Saturday Nights was released on March 22, 2024, by RCA Records.

Singles

"Looking for You" was released as the lead single on January 12, 2023.

The tile track was released as the second single on October 2, 2023.

Track listing

Young Love & Saturday Nights track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Looking for You"
DeStefano3:00
2."All Dogs Go to Heaven"
  • Young
  • Crowder
3:05
3."Young Love & Saturday Nights"
  • Young
  • Crowder
  • DeStefano
3:16
4."Don't Call Me"
  • Young
  • DeStefano
  • Gorley
  • Young
  • DeStefano
2:44
5."What She Sees In Me"
  • Young
  • Christian Stalnecker
  • Josh Hoge
  • Kyle Fishman
  • Ray Fulcher
Young3:46
6."Country Boy's Prayer"
  • Young
  • DeStefano
2:53
7."Double Down"
Young2:55
8."Call It a Day"
  • Young
  • DeStefano
3:04
9."Drink to Remember"
  • Young
  • Crowder
  • DeStefano
  • Young
  • Crowder
3:12
10."Don't Stop Now"
  • Young
  • Crowder
  • Reeve
  • Cole Taylor
  • Young
  • Crowder
  • DeStefano
2:56
11."Fall Out"
  • Young
  • DeStefano
  • Weisband
  • Nite
  • Young
  • DeStefano
2:49
12."Fire"
  • Young
  • DeStefano
3:01
13."Gettin' Older"
  • Dave Fenley
  • Johnny Clawson
  • Kyle Sturrock
Young3:37
14."Right Now"
  • Young
  • DeStefano
3:04
15."Million Miles"
  • Young
  • Crowder
  • DeStefano
2:59
16."Everybody Grew Up"
  • Young
  • Crowder
  • Reeve
  • Taylor
  • Young
  • Crowder
  • DeStefano
2:58
17."Knee Deep in Neon"
  • Young
  • Lindsay Rimes
  • Russell Sutton
  • Young
  • DeStefano
3:07
18."Down"
  • Young
  • DeStefano
2:50
Total length:55:00

Personnel

Vocals

Musicians

Production

Charts

Chart performance for Young Love & Saturday Nights
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [3] 64
UK Album Downloads (OCC) [4] 42
UK Country Albums (OCC) [5] 4
US Billboard 200 [6] 183
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [7] 34

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