Stay (Sugarland song)

"Stay"
Single by Sugarland
from the album Enjoy the Ride
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2007
GenreCountry
Length4:44
LabelMercury Nashville
Songwriter(s)Jennifer Nettles
Producer(s)Byron Gallimore
Kristian Bush
Jennifer Nettles
Sugarland singles chronology
"Everyday America"
(2007)
"Stay"
(2007)
"All I Want to Do"
(2008)

"Stay" is a song recorded by American country music duo Sugarland. It was released in September 2007 as the fourth and final single from their album Enjoy the Ride (see 2006 in country music). Overall, the song is the group's eighth single to enter the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, where it reached a peak position of #2 for four weeks, stuck behind Taylor Swift's "Our Song", and has become their signature song. The music video for "Stay" was ranked #10 on CMT's 100 Greatest Videos.

In addition, it is the first song in Sugarland's career to be written solely by Jennifer Nettles.[1]

"Stay" was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 21, 2008. It was later Sugarland's first single to earn a Platinum certification on March 24, 2009. It reached over two million in sales in 2013, and has sold 2,219,000 copies as of February 2016.[2]

"Stay" was voted the fourth greatest video of the decade on CMT.com

  1. ^ Roznovsky, Lindsey (2008-01-02). "The story behind Sugarland's "Stay"". Country Music Television. Archived from the original on 2009-08-03. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  2. ^ Bjorke, Matt (February 23, 2016). "The Top 30 Digital Singles: February 22, 2016". Roughstock.