Debut Single from GRAMMY-Nominated Singer-Songwriter’s Sophomore Album, Never Will, Hits No. 1 on Canadian Country Airplay Chart
Debut single “One Night Standards” from Ashley McBryde’s critically
acclaimed Never Will achieves RIAA-Certified Gold status in both the United States and
Canada as the hit song tops the Canadian Country Airplay Chart, marking a new career milestone for the 2019 ACM New
Female Artist, CMA New Artist of the Year and 3x GRAMMY nominee.
“It’s really special to have this song reach an audience this size,” says McBryde, whose singles prior to the lead
from Never Will had peaked Top 25 at Country radio. “I grew up listening to albums in addition to
flipping through the country radio dial, so some of the biggest songs that influenced my career weren’t the ones you
heard on the radio,” McBryde pauses. “But that discovery – when the deejay said ‘and that was Mary Chapin
Carpenter,’ or ‘that was Terri Clark,’ man, it would send me down a rabbit hole. If you can walk that line,
introduce millions of new fans to your music and at the same time give them something to go deeper with on your
records, then I think you’re right where you need to be. And right now, I’m very thankful to be here.”
Released last year, “One Night Standards,” currently Top 12 and climbing in the U.S., made its way into NPR’s
Best Songs of 2019 and Rolling Stone’s 25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019, with The
New York Times praising, “McBryde sings and writes with a high degree of emotional acuity, and
this song … is cleareyed, unsentimental and a cold jolt of tragical realism,” and Wall
Street Journal noting, “With songs like ‘One Night Standards,’ she’s surely bound to stick
around—rocking as often as she pleases.”
Never Will, released April 3 via Warner Music Nashville as the follow-up to her GRAMMY-nominated debut,
has continued to garner critical acclaim, earning a title early on in 2020 as one of the best albums of the year
to-date by Rolling
Stone, SPIN, Variety, Billboard, Paste, Stereogum and American
Songwriter.
On Monday, Aug. 31, McBryde will appear on GRAMMY Museum’s Programs at Home Series speaking with moderator Scott
Goldman, followed by a performance, available at GrammyMuseum.org/Museum-At-Home at 1 p.m. CT.
Last month, McBryde appeared on “CBS This Morning: Saturday,” performing three tracks from Never Will,
including “One
Night Standards,” “Sparrow”
and album opener “Hang
In There Girl” from Ryman Auditorium.
July also saw McBryde add to her growing list of accolades, named the Association of Independent Music Publishers
(AIMP) Nashville’s Artist-Writer of the Year, along with “One Night Standards” as AIMP Nashville’s Publisher’s
Pick.
Never Will is
available everywhere now.
About Ashley McBryde
Ashley McBryde learned how to sing sad songs in a biker bar off a rural Arkansas highway–– and it shows. Her 2018
major label debut Girl Going Nowhere (Warner Music Nashville) charmed the New York
Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Paste, The Washington Post, and
more, all en route to landing a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album. McBryde closed out 2019 with ACM New
Female Artist, CMT Breakout Artist of the Year, a New Artist of the Year win at the 53rd Annual CMA Awards and
two nominations for the 2020 GRAMMYs for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for “Girl Goin’
Nowhere.” Her follow-up Never Will, released April 3, was tagged by Rolling
Stone as one of the most anticipated of the year alongside NPR, who also ranked lead RIAA
Gold-Certified single “One Night Standards,” currently Top 12 and climbing in the U.S., as one of the best songs of
2019. Produced once again by Jay Joyce, Never Will reveals the witty, confessional, detail-driven
songwriting addressing a wide spectrum of blue-collar Southern women’s experience introduced on Girl Going
Nowhere is still here, but perhaps even sharper. The music itself is stadium-ready rock-and-roll with a
bluegrass wink or two and country music’s storytelling heart––and McBryde, no longer new, is the music’s ordained
and highly capable standard bearer. McBryde is currently nominated for two 2020 ACM Awards for Song of the Year for
“Girl Goin’ Nowhere” (artist + songwriter) and another nod for Music Event of the Year as a guest on Miranda
Lambert’s “Fooled Around and Fell In Love.” For more information, visit AshleyMcBryde.com or follow her at Facebook.com/AshleyMcBryde,
Instagram @AshleyMcBryde and Twitter at @AshleyMcBryde.