ERNEST IS NO. 1 MOST ADDED AT COUNTRY RADIO WITH “WOULD IF I COULD”
LEAD SINGLE FROM CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE SPINNING NATIONWIDE NOW
THE NEW SINGLE MARKS THE 2024 CMA AWARD NOMINEE’S FIRST SOLO RADIO SINGLE
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“More than any performer, ERNEST best represents how, in the next decade, the communal spirit driving country music in Nashville will likely redefine popular culture worldwide” – The Tennessean
“From hitmaker to historian…Ernest is reviving the sound of classic country music.” – Los Angeles Times
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NASHVILLE, TENN. – Award winning artist / songwriter ERNEST is most added this week with 60 first week stations as his first-ever solo single, “Would If I Could,” impacts country radio. Written by legendary songwriters Dean Dillon and Skip Ewing, ERNEST first found and fell in the love with the song while making of his latest album, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
“Would If I Could” marks the CMA Award nominee’s lead radio single from NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, which released in April as a tribute to ERNEST’s hometown and the creatives that make up the fabric of Music City.
The album debuted to rave reviews, with Billboard noting ERNEST’s “songwriting acumen has become a not-so-secret hitmaking weapon in Nashville’s songwriting circles, stealthily helping to fashion the sound of modern-day country music” and The Tennessean echoing “more than any performer, ERNEST best represents how, in the next decade, the communal spirit driving country music in Nashville will likely redefine popular culture worldwide.”
In 2024, ERNEST earned two ACM Award nominations for New Male Artist of the Year and Artist-Songwriter of the Year, as well as a nomination in the CMA Awards’ Song of the Year category. His album placed on Billboard’s Best Albums Of The Year So Far list among others.A 2X Variety Hitmaker and 2X CMA Triple Play Award winner, ERNEST co-penned the Hot 100 record-breaking single, “I Had Some Help” by Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen. He has 11 No.1s as a songwriter to date, including chart-topping songs by Jelly Roll, Post Malone, Sam Hunt, Kane Brown, Morgan Wallen, Chris Lane and more.
Featured by CBS Mornings, Live With Kelly and Mark, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Access Daily, ABC News Live with Linsey Davis (4/16), Los Angeles Times, The Tennessean, Billboard, People and more, ERNEST resonates.
With 1.8 billion global on-demand career streams to date and counting, he’s proven to be more than just a game-changing, behind-the-scenes force who helped define a generation, but also a maverick that “creates a sound all his own” (Pollstar). NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE is the follow up to ERNEST’s 2021 debut album, FLOWER SHOPS (THE ALBUM), which featured the 2X Platinum title-track “Flower Shops.” To shop “Would If I Could” vinyls and bundles for NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, visit HERE. To listen to NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, visit HERE.