Here Tonight (Brett Young song)


"Here Tonight" is a song written by Brett Young, Ben Caver, Justin Ebach and Charles Kelley, and recorded by Young for his album Ticket to L.A.. It was released to country radio September 24, 2018 as the album's first single.

Content

"Here Tonight" is an "up-tempo love song" written by Young along with Charles Kelley, Ben Caver, and Justin Ebach. According to Young, Kelley came up with the song's melody, and Young handled most of the lyrics. He said of the song that it is about "those moments in your life that are so good and you’re so present in them that you are able, while you’re in them, to realize how good they are...Anybody who is lucky enough to have had moments like that will hear the song and go there immediately." He said that the lyrics came about in a conversation with Caver and Ebach about "those moments in your life...where you’re having an incredible moment, and in the middle of it you have this thought that comes to you. And that thought is, I wish that this moment could last forever."

Commercial performance

"Here Tonight" reached No. 1 on Billboard's Country Airplay for chart dated April 20, 2019, which is Young's fourth No. 1 on the chart. The song has sold 84,000 copies in the United States as of April 2019.

Music video

The music video, directed by Jim Wright, debuted in December 2018. It features Young performing on a beach while various weather phenomena happen behind him, interspersed with shots of a couple whose plans to go out on a date are affected by a sudden rainstorm.

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