NASHVILLE, Tenn. – On June 9th, Universal Music Group Nashville will release Now That’s What I Call Country Vol. 8, the latest installment in the popular NOW series. Country music fans can hear hits by some of their favorite artists including Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker, Eric Church, Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert, Cole Swindell, Lady Antebellum and more.
Now That’s What I Call Country Vol. 8 includes 14 No. 1 hits and 18 total tracks from today’s country music superstars and exciting new artists:
- Luke Bryan Roller Coaster
- Jason Aldean Just Gettin’ Started
- Sam Hunt Leave The Night On
- Darius Rucker Homegrown Honey
- Florida Georgia Line Sun Daze
- Jake Owen Beachin’
- Brantley Gilbert Bottoms Up
- Eric Church Give Me Back My Hometown
- Lady Antebellum Bartender
- A Thousand Horses Smoke
- Cole Swindell Ain’t Worth The Whiskey
- Keith Urban Somewhere In My Car
- Miranda Lambert Automatic
- Brad Paisley Perfect Storm
- Tyler Farr A Guy Walks Into A Bar
- Lee Brice Drinking Class
- Chris Young Lonely Eyes
- Eric Paslay She Don’t Love You
The project is a joint venture from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. This release is part of the multi-platinum NOW That’s What I Call Music! compilation series, the world’s best-selling multi-artist albums with sales topping 250 million worldwide and 94 million in the U.S. The seven previous NOW That’s What I Call Country releases have debuted in the Top 3 of the Billboard Country albums chart. Now That’s What I Call Country Vol. 8 is distributed by Universal Music Group. NOW and NOW That’s What I Call Music! are registered trademarks of Universal Music Group and its affiliates.
Audio / Luke Bryan says “Rollercoaster” is one of the best songs on his Crash My Party album.
DownloadLuke Bryan (Roller Coaster) OC: …’Rollercoaster.’ :51
“‘Rollercoaster’ is what I feel like is just a dang, just a masterpiece from front to back. It has all the levels of going back to young love and that feeling of sitting on the beach and young love that you lost, that you’ve let slip through your hands. And so many people have done that, and the way they hook it, ‘girl, you’ve got me twisted like an old beach rollercoaster,’ is just when you hear that line snap down in me, it’s just chill bump city, a visual city. You could see them living that scene of having to part ways with one another. Man it’s powerful! The second I heard it, I knew I was going to cut it. I drove right over to my producer’s house, I said, ‘This is one for the album,’ and we never even once wavered on whether or not to record ‘Rollercoaster.’”
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Audio / Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley describes the differences between the lyrics and the melody of their No. 1 hit, “Bartender.”
DownloadLady A (Bartender) 2 OC: …something different. :20
“It’s always cool when you can capture kind of what feels like a fun track, but the lyrics are a little darker. When you really listen to the lyrics…it’s definitely a head-bopper, and then you kinda listen, and you’re like, ‘Man, this girl’s talking about literally drinking the pain away.’ And so I think those songs are always kind of cool when you can have that juxtaposition between the feel of a track and the lyrics being something different.”
