GABBY BARRETT’S DEBUT “I HOPE” GETS A DUET-STYLE TWIST WITH GRAMMY-NOMINATED SINGER/SONGWRITER CHARLIE PUTH
Warner Music Nashville’s Gabby Barrett gives new meaning to her breakout single “I Hope,” with a red-hot collaboration featuring Atlantic Records/APG’s Charlie Puth. The anthemic track, co-written by Barrett with Zachary Kale and Jon Nite, along with Puth contributing to the new version, and co-produced by Kale and Ross Copperman, is now available on all streaming platforms and digital retailers.
Sparking from Puth’s Instagram story applauding the track, Barrett and Puth have now reimagined the “lightning-in-a-bottle single” (PEOPLE) as a two-part breakup story featuring a fresh dual perspective, with Puth’s keen artistry and pop sensibility and Barrett’s powerhouse vocals, melding to create the perfect storm on the “vindictive crossover hit” (Rolling Stone). Marking Puth’s first venture into Country music, “I Hope” (feat. Charlie Puth) will be included on Barrett’s much-anticipated debut album due out this year.
“I can’t wait for fans to hear this! With Charlie being on this track, it changes the perspective of the song,” shares Barrett. “When I wrote it I was writing from a woman’s perspective, and so with him being on it, it kind of shows the men’s perspective too. That both sides get cheated on and it’s not just a one-sided thing.”
Says Charlie, “I fell in love with the song when I first heard it, and to be able to reimagine it with Gabby and the writers and producers and take it to a new place, is really exciting.”
Tune in with Amazon Music as Barrett and Puth will celebrate the release with a must-see appearance on Amazon Live today at 1pm ET/12pm CT. Watch here as they chat with fans about the crossover effort and how it came to be.
The genre-bending collaboration comes hot on the heels of record-breaking success, with Barrett’s PLATINUM solo version of “I Hope” claiming over 227 MILLION U.S. on-demand streams, continuing its way towards Country radio’s summit. Across genres, the on-fire single is making waves, topping the Country On-Demand Overall streaming chart this week and entering the Top 20 on Billboard’s all-genre Hot 100 chart. The ACM New Female Artist of the Year nominee recently wrapped up a six consecutive week reign atop the Billboard Emerging Artists chart, and was chosen as their most-recent Chartbreaker here.
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ABOUT GABBY BARRETT
Warner Music Nashville’s Gabby Barrett is setting the trend. As an ACM New Female Artist of the Year nominee, one of SiriusXM’s Future Five for 2020, one of CMT’s 2020 Next Women of Country, a 2020 MusicRow Next Big Thing artist, a SiriusXM + Pandora All-Genre and Country Artist to Watch, Radio Disney’s Next Big Thing, and an Amazon Music 2020 Artist to Watch, as well as being their best performing Country female of 2019, she continues to rise through the ranks and break glass ceilings. Barrett’s "lightning-in-a-bottle single" (PEOPLE) “I Hope” is one of Rolling Stone’s “10 Best Country and Americana Songs To Hear Now,” racing onto Billboard's Hot 100 Chart, and becoming the first female debut single to crack the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart's Top 10 since 2017. “A voice you must hear,” (The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) the rising star has opened for Dierks Bentley, Kane Brown, Luke Bryan, Toby Keith, Chris Lane, Dustin Lynch, Jake Owen, Bebe Rexha, Cole Swindell, Sugarland, and Carrie Underwood. With over 260 MILLION on-demand streams to her credit, Barrett previewed her upcoming Ross Copperman-produced album, releasing new songs “The Good Ones” and “Hall of Fame,” completing a trio of releases she co-wrote. The Pennsylvania native began singing in a gospel choir at nine years old and performed 136 shows in 2017 before rising to national prominence as a finalist on ABC’s American Idol.
ABOUT CHARLIE PUTH
At only 27 years old, multiple-GRAMMY nominated singer/songwriter/producer Charlie Puth has proven to be one of the most consistent hitmakers in pop music today. In just 3 short years, Charlie has already amassed 5 multi-platinum singles, 4 GRAMMY nominations, 8 Billboard Music Awards, 1 Critic’s Choice Award, and 1 Golden Globe nomination. His latest album VOICENOTES was RIAA certified gold only 4 days after its release and has logged over 3.4 billion streams worldwide to date. Written and produced by Charlie himself, VOICENOTES has also received universal acclaim, including the New York Times calling it “one of the year’s best pop albums.” The album features 3x platinum-certified “Attention,” platinum-certified “How Long” and gold-certified “Done For Me.” The album was recently nominated for the 2019 GRAMMY’s for “Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.”
Charlie exploded onto the music scene writing and recording the breakout smash “See You Again” with Wiz Khalifa which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks and was the best-selling song of 2015 worldwide with over 20.9 Million units sold. The song received 3 GRAMMY nominations including “Song of The Year” as well as a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Original Song.” The following year, Charlie released his full-length debut, the platinum certified NINE TRACK MIND, which spawned a remarkable three Multi-Platinum certified singles in “One Call Away,” “Marvin Gaye (feat. Meghan Trainor),” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore (feat. Selena Gomez).” Most recently, Charlie released his newest singles “I Warned Myself,” “Mother” and “Cheating on You,” which marks his first new releases since his GRAMMY nominated album, VOICENOTES.
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