Gabby Barrett teams with Charlie Puth for ‘I Hope’

Song will appear Barrett’s debut album later this year

Warner Music Nashvilleโ€™s Gabby Barrett gives new meaning to her breakout single โ€œI Hope,โ€ with a red-hot collaboration featuring Atlantic Records/APGโ€™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 Puthโ€™s Instagram story applauding the track, Barrett and Puth have now reimagined the โ€œlightning-in-a-bottle singleโ€ (PEOPLE) as a two-part breakup story featuring a fresh dual perspective, with Puthโ€™s keen artistry and pop sensibility and Barrettโ€™s powerhouse vocals, melding to create the perfect storm on the โ€œvindictive crossover hitโ€ (Rolling Stone). Marking Puthโ€™s first venture into Country music, โ€œI Hopeโ€ (feat. Charlie Puth) will be included on Barrettโ€™s much-anticipated debut album due out this year.

โ€œI canโ€™t wait for fans to hear this! With Charlie being on this track, it changes the perspective of the song,โ€ shares Barrett. โ€œWhen I wrote it I was writing from a womanโ€™s perspective, and so with him being on it, it kind of shows the menโ€™s perspective too. That both sides get cheated on and itโ€™s not just a one-sided thing.โ€

โ€œI 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,” Puth comments.

The genre-bending collaboration comes hot on the heels of record-breaking success, with Barrettโ€™s platinum solo version of โ€œI Hopeโ€ claiming over 227 million U.S. on-demand streams, continuing its way towards country radioโ€™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 Billboardโ€™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.

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