“At The End Of A Bar” lands at No. 1
Chris Young and Mitchell Tenpenny have taken their new duet to the top of the Billboard and Country Aircheck/Mediabase country radio charts this week with their hit song, “At The End Of A Bar.” Found on Young’s Famous Friends (Deluxe Edition), “At The End Of A Bar” marks his 13th career No. 1 single as an artist and his 11th No. 1 single as a songwriter and is the follow-up to his multi-platinum, multi-week No. 1, “Famous Friends” with Kane Brown. “At The End Of A Bar” is the second No. 1 for Tenpenny as an artist and his second No. 1 single as a songwriter.
Young, Tenpenny and Chris DeStefano wrote “At The End Of A Bar” in February 2021 during a Nashville snowstorm where most of the city was shut down. “It’s a true testament to never skip a day of work because you never know what you might write,” Young says. Produced by DeStefano and Young, he continues, “it’s also a hell of a lot of fun to sing, and Mitchell Tenpenny and I had entirely too much fun stacking vocals on this, so we had to make it a duet.”
On learning the No. 1 news, Young shared to Instagram, “Thanks to ALL OF YOU, ‘At The End Of A Bar’ is officially my 13th NUMBER 1! Pretty crazy to think that ‘Gettin’ You Home’ was my first number 1 in 2009 and I can’t believe my career has grown so much since then! Thanks for writing and singing this one with me @m10penny! (And you too @Chrisdestefano).”
“I’m just so excited to have a number one with this song. It’s a special song and a great story about how it was written. Even cooler to have it with some of my best buddies,” shares Tenpenny. “Chris has become one of my best friends, so to get to celebrate this together is special in itself. And I can’t express enough how amazing Chris DeStefano is. His talent and his energy in the room is unmatched. We’ve written some of my favorite songs together and I’m just honored to share a #1 with these incredible men.”
The chart-topping status comes following the summer release of Young’s Famous Friends (Deluxe Edition). In addition to the aforementioned No. 1s, the project features six new sides. New collaborations include “Music Note” with Jimmie Allen and “Everybody Needs A Song” with Old Dominion. Two new solo songs – “If I Knew What Was Good For Me” and “Like A Slow Song” — as well as acoustic versions of fan favorites “I’m Comin’ Over” and “Think of You” with Cassadee Pope round out the twenty sides on the new release, all produced or co-produced by Young.
Tenpenny will launch his headlining This Is The Heavy Tour in January 2023 in promotion of his This Is The Heavy album, due out on September 16th. The tour will kick off in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 26th at The Union Event Center. Warner Music Nashville’s Tyler Braden will open. Ticket and VIP package on sales begin this Friday, August 26th. The tour’s 2023 run includes back-to-back concerts at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on February 3-4. Tenpenny, a Nashville native, sold out his first-ever headline concert there in the fall of 2021 and deemed it as ‘a childhood dream come true.” Additional dates on the tour will be announced later.
