Real Friends (Chris Janson album)

Real Friends is the third studio album by American country music singer Chris Janson. It was released via Warner Records Nashville on October 18, 2019. The album contains the singles "Good Vibes" and "Done".

Real Friends
Studio album by
Chris Janson
ReleasedOctober 18, 2019 (2019-10-18)
GenreCountry
Length38:39
LabelWarner Nashville
Producer
  • Chris Janson (all tracks)
  • Tommy Cecil (all tracks except 1, 4, and 12)
  • Brock Berryhill (track 12)
  • Zach Crowell (tracks 1 and 4)[1]
Chris Janson chronology
Everybody
(2017)		 Real Friends
(2019)
Singles from Real Friends
  1. "Good Vibes"
    Released: February 8, 2019
  2. "Done"
    Released: November 25, 2019
  3. "Waitin' on 5"
    Released: September 14, 2020[2]

Content

Janson produced the album with Tommy Cecil, Brock Berryhill, and Zach Crowell, who also co-wrote tracks on the album. It is also Cecil's first production credit. Blake Shelton sings duet vocals on the title track. Janson said that he wanted the album to have a positive theme, and told Billboard that "We wrote it with a positive narrative and tone all the way through."[3]

Critical reception

Rating it 3.5 out of 5 stars, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said of the album that it was "a cheerful, breezy affair, filled with reassuring ballads and party tunes that mindfully avoid pressing the pedal to the metal."[4]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 12 on Billboard's Top Country Albums with 3,400 copies sold.[5] It has sold 9,900 copies in the United States as of March 2020.[6]

Track listing
  1. "Good Vibes" (Chris Janson, Zach Crowell, Ashley Gorley) – 2:44
  2. "Check" (Janson, Tommy Cecil, Greylan James, James McNair, Mitch Oglesby) – 2:43
  3. "Done" (Janson, Oglesby, Jamie Paulin, Matt Roy) – 3:40
  4. "Normal People" (Janson, Crowell, Cecil) – 2:56
  5. "Say About Me" (Janson, Shy Carter, Cecil) – 3:00
  6. "Waitin' on 5" (Janson, Carter, Cecil, Craig Wiseman) – 2:54
  7. "Hawaii on Me" (Janson, Kelly Roland, Wil Nance) – 3:12
  8. "Mine Does" (Janson, Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip) – 3:13
  9. "God’s Gotta Be a Good Ole Boy" (Janson, Brock Berryhill, Brad Clawson, Greylan James, Oglesby) – 2:50
  10. "Real Friends" (Janson, Clawson, James, Oglesby) – 3:06
  11. "Everybody’s Going Through Something" (Janson, Tom Douglas, Tony Lane) – 2:47
  12. "Beer Me" (Janson, Berryhill, Jason Blaine, Jay Brunswick, Oglesby) – 2:40
  13. "Country USA" (Janson, David Lee Murphy, Oglesby) – 2:54

Personnel

Credits by AllMusic[7]

Charts
Chart (2019) Peak
position
Australian Digital Albums (ARIA)[8] 41
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[9] 12
US Billboard 200[10] 110

References
  1. Laffer, Lauren (September 6, 2019). "Chris Janson Shares 13-song Track List For 'Real Friends' album". Sound Like Nashville. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  2. "Future Releases for Country Radio Stations". AllAccess. Archived from the original on September 14, 2020. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  3. Deborah Evans Price (October 17, 2019). "Chris Janson's Art Imitates Life on New Album 'Real Friends'". Billboard. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  4. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Real Friends". AllMusic. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  5. "Top Country Albums". Billboard. November 2, 2019.
  6. Bjorke, Matt (March 10, 2020). "Top 10 Country Albums Pure Sales Chart: March 9, 2020". RoughStock. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  7. "Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  8. "ARIA Australian Top 50 Digital Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. October 28, 2019. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  9. "Chris Janson Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard.
  10. "Debuts on this week's #Billboard200 (2/2)". Billboard on Twitter. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
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