DIERKS BENTLEY'S 'BLACK' BOWS AT NO. 1.

Artist: Dierks Bentley

Dierks Bentley’s new album, Black, has debuted at the top of the country album chart. The new collection, featuring the two-week No. 1 song “Somewhere on a Beach,” sold more than 101-thousand copies to land at No. 1 on the country chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album chart.

The album started with the title track, “Black,” which is also his wife’s maiden name. Dierks says he truly didn’t have time to celebrate or honor his life-changing moments on his last record, Riser, which included the death of his father and the birth of his son, Knox. He also passed a milestone with his wife Cassidy – his 10th wedding anniversary.

“Whenever I’m moving forward into a new album, I’m definitely looking for a new sound, some new idea to kind of like start writing to wrapping the album around. So, it’s either a sonic thing or a lyrical thing or an idea. These last two records have really gone into that, on a pretty blank piece of paper – not sure what it’s gonna be or where it’s gonna come from,” he says. “On the last record it really came from, I had some personal stuff going on in my life with people passing away and people being born. On this record, it really came from the song ‘Black,’ which is the album title. Just these milestones were passing me by and I didn’t really get a chance to celebrate them or honor them. My wife and I had our 10 year anniversary, and it just kinda came and went, so I kind of started thinking about that and relationships in general and how crazy it is to be with someone for 10 years. And that really sparked the idea for the song ‘Black,’ and really from there that’s kind of the cornerstone of the record, that song, and that’s where the idea for this kind of relationship-based record came from and trying to do it in a way that’s a little bit different than just a love song, all love song-based album.”

Dierks has just hit the airwaves with his latest single, “Different for Girls,” featuring Elle King from his new album, Black. The pair will perform the song on the CMT Music Awards, which will be broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday (June 8th) at 8pm ET.

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“Whenever I’m moving forward into a new album, I’m definitely looking for a new sound, some new idea to kind of like start writing to wrapping the album around. So, it’s either a sonic thing or a lyrical thing or an idea. These last two records have really gone into that, on a pretty blank piece of paper – not sure what it’s gonna be or where it’s gonna come from. On the last record it really came from, I had some personal stuff going on in my life with people passing away and people being born. On this record, it really came from the song ‘Black,’ which is the album title. Just these milestones were passing me by and I didn’t really get a chance to celebrate them or honor them. My wife and I had our 10 year anniversary, and it just kinda came and went, so I kind of started thinking about that and relationships in general and how crazy it is to be with someone for 10 years. And that really sparked the idea for the song ‘Black,’ and really from there that’s kind of the cornerstone of the record, that song, and that’s where the idea for this kind of relationship-based record came from and trying to do it in a way that’s a little bit different than just a love song, all love song-based album. I think ‘Black’ is the closest thing I have to a love song on the entire record. So, it’s a little bit more of a mysterious, a look at the mysterious elements and the growth through a long-term relationship.”