{"id":280197,"date":"2019-09-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1073661"},"modified":"2019-09-21T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T10:00:00","slug":"inside-brett-youngs-big-year-of-country-milestones-on-and-off-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/inside-brett-youngs-big-year-of-country-milestones-on-and-off-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Brett Young&#8217;s Big Year of Country Milestones On and Off Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.347613882863\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201955\/rs_634x1024-190605162047-634-brett-young-cmt-awards.cl.060519.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Brett Young, 2019 CMT Music Awards\" alt=\"Brett Young, 2019 CMT Music Awards\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Andrew H. Walker\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.355381165919\">\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, <strong>Brett Young<\/strong> is having an incredible 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past couple of years, the 38-year-old country music singer has earned a spot in the genre thanks to hits like &#8220;In Case You Didn&#8217;t Know,&#8221; &#8220;Mercy&#8221; and &#8220;Like I Loved You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But ahead of his performance on the Daytime Stage this weekend at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, it&#8217;s hard not to recognize all his accomplishments in the past 12 months alone.<\/p>\n<p>While he&#8217;s had the opportunity to tour with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/luke_bryan\">Luke Bryan<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lady_antebellum\">Lady Antebellum<\/a><\/strong>, this year gave Brett the special chance to headline his own tour across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a couple of years, to be able to take on rooms in the thousands and to see the rooms grow as a headliner is one of those coming of age\/full circle moments that you think would never happen,&#8221; Brett explained to E! News exclusively. &#8220;It&#8217;s really, really cool and humbling at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>The Southern California native was the first country artist to sell out The Novo in Downtown Los Angeles three nights in a row. And whether it&#8217;s his own show or a music festival like this weekend&#8217;s iHeartRadio event, Brett always has a goal of turning one music fan into a country music fan.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019814\/rs_1024x759-190914101756-1024-brett-young-mv-91419.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Brett Young \" alt=\"Brett Young \" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Koury Angelo\/Getty Images for Hilton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.355755894591\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"14.542302357836\">\n<p>&#8220;I always love the opportunity to show people how diverse country music is and what a strong pop element there is and how moving and powerful the stories are,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;I love the opportunity to win over a couple fans who may not have liked country music when they walked in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the past 12 months, Brett has been able to explore other genres of music with some of his idols. For starters, he performed with <strong>Boyz ll Men<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uDpmQxBM18M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>CMT Crossroads<\/em><\/a> and recently collaborated with <strong>Gavin DeGraw<\/strong> for an acoustic version of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AKJYNlylDJU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chapters<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gavin&#8217;s first record is what made me want to start writing songs,&#8221; Brett explained to us. &#8220;And Boyz ll Men was my first concert so selfishly I wanted to share the stage with people I idolize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.543596730245\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.8855585831063\">\n<p>And while the collaborations are special and proving other genres &#8220;aren&#8217;t so different from each other,&#8221; Brett has also won over fans with his own personal and relatable lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>His recent single &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SBqPLI0Oskc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catch&#8221;<\/a> has become a fan-favorite thanks to it&#8217;s catchy\u2014no pun intended\u2014chorus. But it&#8217;s also a cool twist on the girls&#8217; night out story music fans know so much about.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always girls who go out on their girls&#8217; night and don&#8217;t want guys to bother them and I love the change of venue there where it&#8217;s a guy going out and he just wants to drink and his buddies and a game. It&#8217;s cool to flip the script every once in awhile,&#8221; Brett explained. &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of cool to take that girls&#8217; night out and show people guys want to do that too sometimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, there&#8217;s a whole lot on the horizon for the country music artist. Recently, it was announced that Kohl&#8217;s would be the exclusive retailer of the Brett Young Caliville apparel collection beginning in October.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, Brett and his wife <strong>Taylor Young<\/strong> are expecting their first child together later this year.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re so excited! I always wanted kids but she&#8217;s the only one I&#8217;ve ever been with who I wanted to have kids with,&#8221; he gushed to E! News. &#8220;The fact that I&#8217;m getting to have my first child with the only person I&#8217;ve ever been able to see having kids with is\u2026I wouldn&#8217;t have written my fairy-tale any different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And while he may be a bit nervous to change diapers and experience a lack of sleep, the excitement far outweighs any fears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never been more sure about anything in my whole life than this person,&#8221; Brett shared. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing worth doing in your life if you don&#8217;t have somebody to share it with so putting in the work to be able to share this with my person is the thing I&#8217;m most proud of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-8\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1073661\/inside-brett-young-s-big-year-of-country-milestones-on-and-off-stage?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew H. Walker\/Shutterstock In case you didn&#8217;t know, Brett Young is having an incredible 2019. Over the past couple of years, the 38-year-old country music singer has earned a spot in the genre thanks to hits like &#8220;In Case You Didn&#8217;t Know,&#8221; &#8220;Mercy&#8221; and &#8220;Like I Loved You.&#8221; But ahead of his performance on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-21 18:35:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}