Chris Stapleton first UK Top 40 Single with feature on Justin Timberlake’s 'Say Something'

On Course For First UK Top 40 Single With Feature On

Justin Timberlake’s New Song and Stunning 
one Shot Music Video For 'Say Something

Wins Big at The Grammy Awards and performs Tribute to Tom Petty  

Appears On Saturday Night Live, joined by Sturgill Simpson  

 

Affirms the value of spiking country music 
with a strong shot of rhythm & blues - THE INDEPENDENT

Country superstar Chris Stapleton was on course to potentially land his first UK Top 40 single, with his appearance on Justin Timberlake's ‘Say Something’, which was one of three new entries heading for the top of this week's UK Official Singles Chart.

Justin Timberlake's Say Something is one of three new entries heading for this week's Official Singles Chart - and it could earn @ChrisStapleton his first UK Top 40! https://t.co/dp9mzVTo4f pic.twitter.com/Tkh8sQRtR8

— Official Charts (@officialcharts) 29 January 2018

Friday Feb 2, 2018: UPDATE: Timberlake & Stapleton land a No.32 Debut

Official UK Top 100 Singles Chart (Week Ending 8 February 2018)

2 February 2018 - 8 February 2018

Justin Timberlake's first three songs taken from his fifth studio album, MAN IN THE WOODS – which dropped on Friday (2 February) – are struggling. Introductory single, Filthy, debuted and peaked three weeks ago at No.15 and now fell 38-46 (8,363 sales), while Supplies failed to make the Top 75 on debut last week, landing at No.84. It now departs the chart entirely, while third track Say Something, a collaboration with Chris Stapleton which finds Timberlake embracing country rock, made a debut at No.32 (11,394 sales).

Chris recently joined Justin Timberlake on his new song, with their collaboration following their famous performance of Chris’ version of George Jones’ ‘Tennessee Whiskey’ and Justin Timberlake’s ‘Drink You Away’ at the 2015 CMA awards, which helped launch Chris into the music stratosphere. The striking one-take music video/short film directed by Arturo Perez Jr, sees Chris join Justin towards the middle of the video, it was an instant hit with Rolling Stone describing it as “stunning”.

Watch it here: 

Chris Stapleton also scored a hat trick at the 60^th Annual Grammy Awards this week, winning all three nominations including, Best Country Solo Performance for ‘Either Way’, Best Country Song for ‘Broken Halos’ and Best Country Album for his critically acclaimed, From A Room: Vol. 1. Chris paid tribute to the late Tom Petty with a performance alongside Emmylou Harris, performing a acoustic duet of Petty’s 1994 song “Wildflowers.” Their performance was followed by a video tribute to other musicians who died last year, including Chris Cornell, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Chester Bennington and more.

Check out a clip of their performance here 

Chris also return to the stage of "Saturday Night Live", with his second appearance as a musical guest on SNL, alongside comedy legend Will Ferrell, celebrating the release of his latest album, From A Room: Volume 2, which is out now on Mercury Records Nashville/Decca purchase digitally and with exclusive limited-edition bundles. ) Chris was joined by fellow country star Sturgill Simpson, performing tracks including ‘Hard Living’ watch here:

Chris’s Grammy success followed a jam packed 2017 schedule, celebrating the release of his critically acclaimed From A Room: Volume 2, that also saw him perform “Millionaire” on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”, which you can watch here.

Stapleton also performed “Millionaire” and an exclusive web version of “Nobody’s Lovely Tonight” on Jimmy Kimmel Live, also joined guest host Chris Pratt for a hilarious special duet of ‘“(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” as well as an interview, where they celebrated with a glass of Tennessee Whiskey and chatted about Chris success including his  three nominations for the 60^th Annual Grammy Awards USA for his critically acclaimed album, From A Room: Vol. 1.

Stapleton also chatted to Joe Rogan for his podcast, discussing his road to success.

His album From A Room: Volume 2 has received widespread acclaim with praise in the USA from high profile publications NPR, Rolling Stone and Relix as well as the UK landing No 2 on the UK’s Official Americana Albums Chart Top 40, alongside positive reviews from NME who gave it 4 out 5 review in their Friday album club, comparing Chris’ unique take on modern country to respected artists including: Neil Young, Credence Clearwater Revival and Johnny Cash. The Independent stated the album “Affirms the value of spiking country music with a strong shot of rhythm & blues” and the record has also received strong support from cool music publications including, GODS IN THE TV, who stated, “Prolific is now another epithet that can be used to describe the American singer-songwriter” as well as FOLK RADIO who added, “Reckon they might as well start engraving that CMA 2018 Album of the Year award now.”

See Related Blog: Chris Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 2 out December 1

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