Yours (Russell Dickerson album)

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Yours
Russell Dickerson - Yours (album cover).jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 13, 2017 (2017-10-13)
Genre Country pop [1]
Length41:40
Label Triple Tigers
Producer Casey Brown, Mike "Frog" Griffith, Jordan Reynolds
Russell Dickerson chronology
Yours (EP)
(2016)
Yours
(2017)
Southern Symphony
(2020)
Singles from Yours
  1. "Yours"
    Released: April 24, 2017
  2. "Blue Tacoma"
    Released: March 5, 2018
  3. "Every Little Thing"
    Released: December 3, 2018

Yours is the debut studio album recorded by American country pop singer and songwriter Russell Dickerson. [2] It was released on October 13, 2017, through Triple Tigers Records. [3] Produced by Casey Brown, the record follows Dickerson's 2016 EP of the same name. Its lead single, the title track, has been certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA. [4]

Contents

Content

Yours includes five tracks previously released on the similarly titled extended play. [5] An alternate "wedding version" of the title track is included as the final track on both releases. [1] [3] "Blue Tacoma" has received some unsolicited airplay on country radio. [2] The song titled "MGNO" is an initialism for "my girl's night out." [6] Dickerson co-wrote every song on the album. [7]

Commercial performance

Yours debuted at No. 5 on the Top Country Albums chart and No. 39 on the Billboard 200, [8] selling 7,600 copies (12,000 units including streams and track sales) in the first week. [9] The album has sold 15,600 copies in the United States as of February 2018. [10]

Singles

The title track, "Yours", serves as the lead single. It was first released independently as a digital single on July 23, 2015, and was later serviced to country radio on April 24, 2017, after Dickerson signed with Triple Tigers Records. [11] [12] The song has reached the top of the Country Airplay chart and the top 50 of the Hot 100.

"Blue Tacoma" was released to radio on March 5, 2018, as the album's second single. [13]

"Every Little Thing" was released to radio on December 3, 2018, as the third single. [14]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Russell Dickerson, Casey Brown, and Parker Welling except as noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Every Little Thing" Brown3:10
2."Yours" Brown3:36
3."Blue Tacoma" Brown3:32
4."Billions" 
  • Brown
  • Mike "Frog" Griffith
3:18
5."All Fall Down"
  • Dickerson
  • Jordan Reynolds
  • Brown
  • Griffith
  • Reynolds
3:08
6."Float" 
  • Brown
  • Griffith
3:21
7."MGNO"
  • Dickerson
  • Welling
  • Davis Naish
Brown3:21
8."Would You Love Me?"
  • Dickerson
  • Reynolds
  • Hannah Ellis
  • Brown
  • Griffith
  • Reynolds
2:50
9."Low Key"
  • Dickerson
  • Welling
  • Benjamin Goldsmith
  • Brown
  • Griffith
3:36
10."You Look Like a Love Song" 
  • Brown
  • Griffith
4:37
11."twentysomething" 
  • Brown
  • Griffith
3:35
12."Yours" (Wedding Edition) Brown3:36
Total length:41:40

Personnel

Adapted by AllMusic [15]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Yours
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [22] Gold500,000Double-dagger-14-plain.png

Double-dagger-14-plain.png Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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