Brown’s “What Ifs” Featuring Lauren Alaina Advances to #2 on Country On-Demand Audio Streams, #2 on Digital Country Songs and Top 15 on Single Airplay Charts
Nashville, TN – Country star Kane Brown, Sony Music Nashville and Firestone have partnered for an innovative 2017 summer country music campaign. With the common goal of engaging fans of country music, Firestone and Sony Music Nashville are reaching out to consumers via strategic digital and offline campaigns for the duration of the summer to share the compelling story of Kane Brown – his challenging childhood, his inspiring life lessons, passion for music and love for cars and trucks and outdoor activities.
The first of a series of Kane Brown Firestone digital episodes is posted on Firestone social channels HERE.
Breakthrough artist Kane Brown is country’s best-selling new artist debut of the past 2 ½ years. Brown’s self-titled first album which released December 2, currently #12 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, debuted at #1 on the same chart and Top 10 on the Billboard 200 with total consumption of 51,000 units. Additionally, the 23-year-old singer/songwriters was the #4 all-genre best new artist debut in 2016, preceded only by Zayn, Jordan Smith and Charlie Puth. Brown’s album, produced by 9-time ACM Award-winning producer Dann Huff and Matt McVaney, includes his Gold-certified Top 15-and-rising hit “What Ifs” featuring Lauren Alaina. Additionally, “What Ifs” is currently #2 on both the Country On-Demand Audio Streams and Digital Country Songs charts. With a robust, devoted fan base of over 3.5 million social subscribers, the RCA Nashville/Zone 4 recording artist has garnered over 320 million on-demand streams and over 100 million YouTube and Vevo views. In the past year, Kane Brown has been nominated for an ACM Award for “Top New Male Artist” and a CMT Music Award for “Breakthrough Video” for “Used To Love You Sober,” the track of which was certified Gold by the RIAA and included on his Chapter 1 EP. Currently on tour with Jason Aldean, the Georgia and Tennessee native sold out 92 headline shows of his own with over 141,000 tickets purchased. NBC’s “Today” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” the nationally-syndicated “Ellen” and “Entertainment Tonight,” and CBS’ “Academy of Country Music Awards” are among his most-recent TV appearances; and, his key press coverage includes features in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Billboard, People, US Weekly, Seventeen, Cosmo, HITS and Rolling Stone.
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Sony Music Nashville includes its three country label operations – Arista Nashville, Columbia Nashville and RCA Nashville – and Provident Music Group, one of the world’s leading Christian music companies. Sony Music Nashville is a division of Sony Music Entertainment.