Dan + Shay – Good Things (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:48 minutes | 404 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Music Nashville
Good Things features 12 imaginatively crafted songs with breathtaking production helmed by the duo’s Dan Smyers. Less than a month before its release, Good Things is already proving to be another record-breaking album. Dan + Shay shattered ceilings with multi-week No.1 “10,000 Hours” featuring Justin Bieber, the album’s first single released in October 2019, which is the Top Streamed Country Song of 2021 so far on Spotify. The 4x Platinum hit had the biggest first-week streaming total in country music history and was the fastest country song to reach one million U.S. track equivalents in 2019. The worldwide smash spent 21 weeks at No.1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart (5thlongest run in chart history) and landed the duo their third GRAMMY Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance, making them the first artist to do so 3x consecutively since the category’s inception. Dan + Shay followed with Platinum-certified “I Should Probably Go To Bed,” which quickly became their fifth consecutive and eighth career No.1, has surpassed 300 million global streams and has garnered over 1.5 million track equivalents. Their current single, “Glad You Exist,” recently became RIAA GOLD-CERTIFIED AND HAS ACCUMULATED 800,000 TRACK EQUIVALENTS SO FAR.
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Dan + Shay – Dan + Shay (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:20 minutes | 449 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
On their third album, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney extend their contemporary poetry. Dan+Shay pays tribute to country pop thanks to the balance found by both men during their collaboration. Sensitive but in no way tedious, they launch Alone Together with a punchy drum intro. Perfectly balanced and catchy country rock music, softened by the two accomplices’ smooth and light vocals. An intimate and imaginary universe transpires from their compositions. Sincere and humble, their stories are those of daily lives anyone can relate to, like in the track Tequila. A Proust madeleine of sorts, in which tequila sneakily replaced the madeleine… Love, at the very least romance, are central themes for Smyers and Mooney. Keeping Score therefore comes as no surprise, halfway between Shay and Kelly Clarkson. A romantic ballad introduced by a piano solo and quickly caught up by the union of two voices that seem to be made for each other. But the duo also preserves the musical heritage of a more traditional country music, highlighted in My Side of the Fence intro with a mandolin and steel guitar. A pop country album that radiates youthful energy and preaches harmony among all beings. – Anna Coluthe
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