Eric Church has climbed to the top of the Mediabase country chart with his seventh career No. 1 single, “Record Year.” (NOTE: In addition to his five solo chart-toppers, he also hit the top of the country charts with “Raise ‘Em Up” with Keith Urban and “The Only Way I Know” with Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan.

“Record Year” was co-written by Church and his guitarist/banjo player, Jeff Hyde (who also penned “Cold One” (with Luke Hutton), “Springsteen” (with Ryan Tyndell), and “Smoke A Little Smoke” (with Driver Williams) all alongside the man the Los Angeles Times called “Nashville’s foremost rabble-rouser”), and outlines a story of a heartbroken music-lover finding consolation in the records of some of music’s greatest masterminds.

The North Carolina native sings about playing several of his vinyl records to help him get over a heartache, and namechecks several iconic artists and pieces of music. “There’s a line in the song, and it talks about ‘slowly planning my survival/in a three-foot stack of vinyl,’ and I’ve done that where you take your records out and go, ‘Okay by the time I get to the bottom of this stack, I’m gonna be better or worse and [laughs] this is where I’m heading,’” says Eric. “It’s a great thing about music is it can become a point of therapy and healing.”

Eric is getting ready to play two sold-out shows at Red Rocks in Denver, and he’s got a pair of killer opening acts – Maren Morris on August 9th and Cam on August 10th.