ASHLEY MCBRYDE’S “ONE NIGHT STANDARDS” CERTIFIED GOLD IN US AND CANADA; TOPS CANADIAN COUNTRY AIRPLAY CHART

Debut single “One Night Standards” from Ashley McBryde’s critically acclaimed Never Will achieves RIAA-Certified Gold status in both the United States and Canada as the hit song tops the Canadian Country Airplay Chart, marking a new career milestone for the 2019 ACM New Female Artist, CMA New Artist of the Year and 3x GRAMMY nominee.

 

“It’s really special to have this song reach an audience this size,” says McBryde, whose singles prior to the lead from Never Will had peaked Top 25 at Country radio. “I grew up listening to albums in addition to flipping through the country radio dial, so some of the biggest songs that influenced my career weren’t the ones you heard on the radio,” McBryde pauses. “But that discovery – when the deejay said ‘and that was Mary Chapin Carpenter,’ or ‘that was Terri Clark,’ man, it would send me down a rabbit hole. If you can walk that line, introduce millions of new fans to your music and at the same time give them something to go deeper with on your records, then I think you’re right where you need to be. And right now, I’m very thankful to be here.”

 

Released last year, “One Night Standards,” currently Top 12 and climbing in the U.S., made its way into NPR’s Best Songs of 2019 and Rolling Stone’s 25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019, with The New York Times praising, “McBryde sings and writes with a high degree of emotional acuity, and this song … is cleareyed, unsentimental and a cold jolt of tragical realism,” and Wall Street Journal noting, “With songs like ‘One Night Standards,’ she’s surely bound to stick around—rocking as often as she pleases.”

 

Never Will, released April 3 via Warner Music Nashville as the follow-up to her GRAMMY-nominated debut, has continued to garner critical acclaim, earning a title early on in 2020 as one of the best albums of the year to-date by Rolling Stone, SPIN, Variety, Billboard, Paste, Stereogum and American Songwriter.

On Monday, Aug. 31, McBryde will appear on GRAMMY Museum’s Programs at Home Series speaking with moderator Scott Goldman, followed by a performance, available at GrammyMuseum.org/Museum-At-Home at 1 p.m. CT.

Last month, McBryde appeared on “CBS This Morning: Saturday,” performing three tracks from Never Will, including “One Night Standards,” “Sparrow” and album opener “Hang In There Girl” from Ryman Auditorium.

 

July also saw McBryde add to her growing list of accolades, named the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) Nashville’s Artist-Writer of the Year, along with “One Night Standards” as AIMP Nashville’s Publisher’s Pick.

 

Never Will is available everywhere now.

 

ASHLEY MCBRYDE DEBUTS HER “ONE NIGHT STANDARDS” MUSIC VIDEO

Video Acts as Part One in a Three-Part Series

GRAMMY-nominated artist and songwriter Ashley McBryde debuted her new music video for current single “One Night Standards,” the first of a three-part storyline that will be released over the upcoming weeks. The video made its debut on YouTube this week, along with two digital billboard counterparts in Times Square in New York City and in Los Angeles at The Staples Center.

“My manager John Peets and I had this idea to listen to the record and see what stories appeared…what threads of ideas were consistent in the songs we had gathered and what characters stood out,” McBryde shares. “Low and behold, one night on the bus Chris Harris (acoustic guitar, mandolin, harmonies) and I were having a few beverages after a show. I got out my sketch pad and we wrote down each song from the record and each character. It looked like a crazy road map. It looked like a child had drawn it.

“But there it was,” McBryde continues. “A way to connect every song and every video. I showed it to Peets, and we put it in (director) Reid Long’s hands. And the rest is history.”

Directed by Long and shot in Nashville at the Drake Hotel, “One Night Standards” is the first of three videos in the series as she prepares her highly-anticipated sophomore album for Warner Music Nashville.

“One Night Standards” has already made its way into NPR’s Best Songs of 2019, stating, “Gender equity isn't merely about celebrating strengths; it's also about allowing for the human frailties that don't discriminate by sex. So let's raise a glass to the low women, like the no-strings-attached narrator in McBryde’s lone 2019 song ‘One Night Standards,’” and described in Rolling Stone’s 25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019 as “vividly honest,” and “in stark contrast to so many of the fantastical puppy-love songs that get played on the radio or further the genre’s squeaky-clean image.”

Upon its release, The New York Times praised, “McBryde sings and writes with a high degree of emotional acuity, and this song … is clear-eyed, unsentimental and a cold jolt of tragical realism.”

The CMA New Artist of the Year, ACM New Female Artist of the Year and CMT Breakout Artist of the Year was also nominated for two GRAMMY awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for her breakout hit “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” (the title track from the album that previously received a nomination at the 2019 GRAMMY awards for Best Country Album).

McBryde will embark on her second headlining tour, 2020’s One Night Standards Tour, on Jan. 30 in Birmingham, Ala. with over a dozen dates until April 23 in Helotes, Texas. For more information and tour dates, visit ashleymcbryde.com.