"Boy" is a song written by
Nicolle Galyon
Nicolle Anne Galyon (born July 22, 1984) is a singer, songwriter, producer, record label executive, & publishing executive from Sterling, Kansas. She has written songs for Lady A, Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Dan + Shay, Florida Ge ...
and
Jon Nite
Jon Nite (born March 19, 1980) is a Grammy-nominated, CMA and ACM award winning singer/songwriter who has written 16 No.1 hits. Nite's songs have been recorded by artists such as Charlie Puth, Keith Urban, Dan & Shay, Gabby Barrett, Luke Bryan, Br ...
and recorded by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
singer
Lee Brice
Kenneth Mobley Brice Jr. (born June 10, 1979), known professionally as Lee Brice, is an American country music singer and songwriter, signed to Curb Records. Brice has released five albums with the label: '' Love Like Crazy'', '' Hard to Love'', ...
. It was released in June 2017 as the lead single to Brice's
self-titled fourth studio album.
Content
Before Brice recorded the song, he had performed it in concert. He told ''The Boot'' that he chose to release it a single because whenever he performed it in concert, fans would hold up pictures of their sons. The song is about emotions expressed by a father to his son.
Critical reception
An uncredited review in ''Taste of Country'' called it "a song that will connect with every father (or any parent) who is watching his children grow up too fast right before his eyes", while also praising the "gentle, lilting acoustic bed track" and Brice's singing voice.
Commercial performance
The song peaked at No. 14 on the US ''Billboard''s Hot Country Songs chart for the week dated March 10, 2018, and it peaked at No. 16 on the Country Airplay chart the same week, becoming his first single to miss the top 10 since “
Beautiful Every Time” in 2011. It has sold 256,000 copies in the United States as of April 2018.
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References
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2017 songs
Lee Brice songs
Curb Records singles
Songs written by Nicolle Galyon
Songs written by Jon Nite