Meat and Candy

Meat and Candy
Studio album by Old Dominion
Released November 6, 2015 (2015-11-06)
Genre Country
Length 35:45
Label RCA Nashville[1]
Producer Shane McAnally[2]
Old Dominion chronology
Old Dominion
(2014)		 Meat and Candy
(2015)
Singles from Meat and Candy
  1. "Break Up with Him"
    Released: January 20, 2015
  2. "Snapback"
    Released: January 11, 2016[3]

Meat and Candy is the debut album of American country music band Old Dominion. It was released on November 6, 2015 via RCA Records Nashville. The album includes the single "Break Up with Him", which has charted No. 1 on Country Airplay. The album's second single, "Snapback" released to country radio on January 11, 2016.

Conception

Songwriter and producer Shane McAnally came up with the album's name, using the words "meat and candy" to suggest the "heftier songs" and "lighter fare" respectively.[2] For the album cover, the band found photographer Michael Elins, who has worked with Katy Perry, to create an image of a female soda jerk before a table covered with meat products and candy. Lead singer Matt Ramsey told Rolling Stone that the album cover "shows our personality without showing us, and it definitely shows that we're trying to do something different".[2]

Critical reception

Giving it an "A-", Tammy Ragusa of Nash Country Weekly wrote that "The combination of catchy rhymes, clever lyrics, Matt Ramsey's warm, strong voice, and the band's subtle but delicious harmonie will have you singing, clapping, and dancing along."[1] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic rated the album 4 out of 5 stars, saying that "this is a sharper, savvier variation of Rascal Flatts: crossover pop as suited for an office as it is for a make-out session. That's an endorsement, not a dismissal: it's hard to sound this light and easy, but Old Dominion do it with aplomb and they're such talented craftsmen that Meat & Candy sounds better on the fifth play than it does on the first, and it sounds mighty fine that first time through."[4]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 5 on Top Country Albums, and No. 16 on Billboard 200, selling 20,500 copies in its first week.[5] It peaked at No. 3 on the Country Albums chart on its 17th week of release in March 2016 due to sale at both iTunes and Google Play stores, with 10,200 sold for the week.[6] The album has sold 103,300 copies in the US as of May 2016.[7]

Track listing

  1. "Snapback" (Brad Tursi, Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen) – 3:26
  2. "Half Empty" (Matt Jenkins, Ramsey, Rosen) – 2:51
  3. "Wrong Turns" (Jenkins, Ramsey, Rosen) – 3:30
  4. "Said Nobody" (Tursi, Ramsey, Rosen) – 3:06
  5. "Crazy Beautiful Sexy" (Josh Osborne, Ross Copperman, Ramsey) – 3:10
  6. "Nowhere Fast" (Jenkins, Ramsey, Rosen) – 3:10
  7. "Beer Can in a Truck Bed" (Jenkins, Ramsey, Rosen) – 3:22
  8. "Break Up with Him" (Tursi, Geoff Sprung, Ramsey, Rosen, Whit Sellers) – 3:27
  9. "Song for Another Time" (Tursi, Jenkins, Ramsey, Rosen) – 3:14
  10. "Til It's Over" (Jimmy Robbins, Ramsey, Shane McAnally) – 3:28
  11. "We Got It Right" (Ramsey, Copperman, McAnally) – 3:13

Personnel

Old Dominion

Additional musicians

Charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[8] 30
US Billboard 200[9] 16
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[10] 3

References

  1. 1 2 Ragusa, Tammy (November 9, 2015). "Reviews: Old Dominion - 'Meat and Candy'". Nash Country Weekly 22 (45): 23. ISSN 2379-9137.
  2. 1 2 3 Hudak, Joseph (October 30, 2015). "Inside Old Dominion's Wildly Irreverent 'Meat and Candy' Album Cover". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ "R&R :: Going For Adds :: Country". Radio & Records. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Meat and Candy review". Allmusic. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Bjorke, Matt (November 17, 2015). "Country Albums Chart Report: November 17, 2015". Roughstock.
  6. ↑ Bjorke, Matt (March 8, 2016). "Country Albums Chart Report: March 8, 2016". Roughstock.
  7. ↑ Bjorke, Matt (May 1, 2016). "Country Album Charts: Week Of May 2, 2016". Roughstock.
  8. ↑ "Old Dominion – Chart history" Billboard Canadian Albums Chart for Old Dominion. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Old Dominion – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Old Dominion. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Old Dominion – Chart history" Billboard Top Country Albums for Old Dominion. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
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