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Brett Young: Fans Influence The Singles

Brett Young just celebrated his sixth #1 song with “Catch.” As Young told us, he listens to fans when choosing his singles. He says, “With streaming and everything being digital…

Fans For Sure Affect Brett Young's Song Choices
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Brett Young just celebrated his sixth #1 song with “Catch."

As Young told us, he listens to fans when choosing his singles. He says, “With streaming and everything being digital you can kind of watch which songs people are kind of gravitating towards and so it would be a little bit foolish to ignore that.”

Even if Brett thinks he has a plan all mapped out before he releases an album, he says, “It’s crazy how quickly things change. You know, we never know if there’s gonna be a song that all of a sudden, that’s like this anthemic chant from the audience, which all of a sudden is going to move it up to the top of the list. So nothing is set in stone.”

Make sure to listen to Brett perform live as one of our Superstar Mini Concerts on April 28 at 4 pm (and catch the replay at 8 pm).

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.