Ticket to L.A. explained
| Ticket to L.A. |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Brett Young |
| Cover: | Brett Young – Ticket to L.A. (Official Cover).png |
| Alt: | The cover features Brett Young at a desert, wearing a long white shirt and blue jeans, and placing his right hand on a wood stump. Both the artist's name and album title appear on the left, colored in blue and brown respectively. |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 47:10 |
| Label: | Big Machine |
| Producer: | Dann Huff |
| Prev Title: | Brett Young |
| Prev Year: | 2017 |
| Next Title: | Weekends Look a Little Different These Days |
| Next Year: | 2021 |
Ticket to L.A. is the second studio album by American country music singer Brett Young. It was released on December 7, 2018, through Big Machine Label Group. Its lead single, "Here Tonight" (co-written by Charles Kelley of the group Lady Antebellum), was released in September 2018. The track listing for the album was released on September 10, 2018.
Background
The album is Young's second album released under the Big Machine label. Young co-wrote ten of the album's thirteen tracks. The album was produced by Dann Huff, with engineer Justin Niebank and executive producer Jimmy Harnen. Collaborators on the album include Gavin DeGraw, Ashley Gorley, Shane McAnally, Hillary Lindsey, Charles Kelley and Ross Copperman.[1] The first song written for the album is "Used to Missin' You" he co-wrote with Jimmy Robbins and Jon Nite, which was intended for his previous album Brett Young.[2] He wrote "Chapters" with Gavin Degraw, who wanted the song to be about Young's story. This album has a lighter feel than the previous album, although it ended with a sombre ballad "Don't Wanna Write This Song", which is intended to mirror "Mercy" of that album.[3]
Commercial performance
Ticket to L.A. debuted at number one on Billboard Top Country Albums and number 15 on the US Billboard 200, selling 27,000 copies (37,000 in equivalent album units) in the first week.[4] As of February 2020, the album has sold 75,900 copies in the United States.[5]
Personnel
Adapted from liner notes[6]
- Ben Caver – background vocals (all tracks except 5 & 6)
- Ross Copperman - programming (tracks 3, 9)
- Zach Crowell - programming (tracks 1, 12)
- Gavin DeGraw – piano (track 9), duet vocals (track 9)
- Charles Dixon – viola (track 13), violin (track 13)
- Justin Ebach – programming (track 4)
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar (tracks 3-6, 8, 10, 12)
- Nick Gold – cello (track 13)
- Sara Haze - background vocals (track 12)
- Dann Huff – bouzouki (track 1), dobro (track 3), electric slide guitar (track 3), 12-string guitar (tracks 3, 10), electric guitar (all tracks), gut string guitar (tracks 5, 10), Hammond B-3 organ (track 7), keyboards (track 2), little guitar (track 3), mandolin (tracks 1, 3), mandocello (track 1), piano (tracks 8, 11), programming (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 10), soloist (tracks 2-4, 6, 7, 10, 11), synthesizer (track 7)
- David Huff - programming (all tracks)
- Charlie Judge – keyboards (all tracks except 8 & 11), programming (tracks 1-3, 5-9, 13), string arrangements (track 13), strings (tracks 3, 8), synthesizer (track 8)
- Noah Needleman – background vocals (track 5)
- Jerry Roe - drums (tracks 1, 11)
- Jimmy Robbins - programming (track 11)
- Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar (all tracks)
- Aaron Sterling – drums (all tracks except 1 & 11)
- Russell Terrell – background vocals (track 6)
- Ilya Toshinsky – banjo (tracks 4, 10, 12), 12-string acoustic guitar (track 1), acoustic guitar (all tracks), ganjo (track 7), hi-string acoustic guitar (track 2), mandolin (track 7)
- Derek Wells – baritone guitar (track 13), electric guitar (all tracks), slide guitar (track 1)
- Brett Young – lead vocals (all tracks)
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Notes and References
- Brett Young Announces New Album, 'Ticket to L.A.'. Freeman. Jon. September 10, 2018. December 4, 2018. Rolling Stone. https://web.archive.org/web/20181212181023/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/brett-young-new-album-722270/. December 12, 2018. live.
- Brett Young Talks New Album 'Ticket to L.A.,' Gavin DeGraw Influence. Jon. Freeman. Rolling Stone. December 7, 2018. January 11, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190112044414/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/brett-young-interview-new-album-ticket-to-la-gavin-degraw-766084/. January 12, 2019. live.
- Brett Young On New Album, 'Ticket To LA': 'I Wouldn't Change a Thing'. December 10, 2018. Taylor. Weatherby. Billboard. January 11, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20221201214833/https://www.billboard.com/music/country/brett-young-interview-ticket-to-la-8488988/. December 1, 2022. live.
- Brett Young Scores One-Way 'Ticket' to No. 1 on Top Country Albums Chart. December 19, 2018. Jim. Asker. Billboard. January 11, 2019. subscription. https://web.archive.org/web/20190112054418/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8491056/brett-young-ticket-to-la-top-country-albums-number-one. January 12, 2019. live.
- News: Top 10 Country Albums Chart in Pure Sales: February 24, 2020. Roughstock. Matt. Bjorke. February 25, 2020. March 6, 2020.
- Ticket to L.A. . Brett Young . 2018 . CD booklet . BMLG Records . BMXBYO0200A.
- Web site: ARIA Chart Watch #503. auspOp. December 15, 2018. December 15, 2018.
- Top Country Albums – Year-End 2019. Billboard. July 14, 2020. subscription. https://web.archive.org/web/20200706161551/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2019/top-country-albums. July 6, 2020. live.
- Top Country Albums – Year-End 2020. Billboard. December 6, 2020. subscription. https://web.archive.org/web/20201203151436/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2020/top-country-albums. December 3, 2020. live.
