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- The nation star opens up to PEOPLE about his new collection Famous Friends, which is set to be delivered on Aug. 6
- Like his fans, Chris Young couldn’t be more energized for the arrival of his first new collection in quite a while.
On Aug. 6, the nation star, 35, is set to deliver his profoundly expected eighth studio collection Famous Friends – his first since 2017’s Losing Sleep – which he prods is unique concerning anything he’s always done previously.
“The production of this collection was fanned out throughout three years,” Young tells PEOPLE. “At the point when you take a gander at the historical backdrop of my profession, it’s been a new collection, a new collection, a new collection two or three years.
With this one, I had significantly additional time on the off chance that I expected to work through stuff, and I had the opportunity to mess about in the studio a tad. Be that as it may, it’s been so amazing seeing everyone be excited about this new music.”
While he didn’t appreciate being off visit for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Young says the “brilliant spot” was that he had the opportunity to truly zero in on assembling this collection.
“We’ve been prodding everyone for quite a long time,” he says. “It’s been for such a long time that I’ve been discussing all the stuff that I did in the previous 18 months, and I think individuals at one point thought I was meddling with them a tad. They resembled, ‘Do you have a collection coming out?’ It’s so energizing to have this data out there.”
When it came time to name the collection, Young says it made “all the sense on the planet” for him to call it Famous Friends after his two-part harmony with Kane Brown of a similar name.
“This melody has truly become well known with how much individuals love it,” Young says of the track. “Going into the collection dispatch here in the warmth of the late spring with a tune that is getting one of the tunes of the mid-year, it appeared well and good to call this Famous Friends.”
Alongside his two-part harmony with Brown, 27, the collection incorporates coordinated efforts with a few other Young’s well-known companions. Remembering Lauren Alaina for the melody “Town Ain’t Big Enough” (which he co-composed with Dan +’s Shay Mooney, Cary Barlowe, and Corey Crowder) and Mitchell Tenpenny on “Toward the End of a Bar.”
“I composed ‘Town Ain’t Big Enough’ with Shay purposefully as a two-part harmony, and I resembled, ‘Man, you must sing congruity with me on this,'” Young says. “Then, at that point then I considered who I had been out and about with as of late; Lauren was one of the names that [stuck out]. I resembled, ‘We should call her and see how she can manage it.’ She approached the studio and sang on the melody, and it was awesome.”
