"We Are Tonight" | ||||
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Single by Billy Currington | ||||
from the album We Are Tonight | ||||
Released | November 18, 2013 | |||
Recorded | 2013 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:52 | |||
Label | Mercury Nashville | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Dann Huff | |||
Billy Currington singles chronology | ||||
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"We Are Tonight" is a song written by Marc Beeson, Sam Hunt, and Josh Osborne[1] and recorded by American country music singer Billy Currington. It was released in November 2013 as the second single from Currington’s 2013 album We Are Tonight.
The song became Currington's eighth number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay chart. It also charted at numbers 12 and 60 on both the Hot Country Songs and Billboard Hot 100 charts respectively. The song was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and it has sold 455,000 copies in the United States as of August 2014. It achieved similar chart success in Canada, peaking at number 17 on the Canada Country chart and number 87 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart.
The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Kristin Barlowe. One of the song's writers, Sam Hunt, recorded an acoustic version of the track for his 2013 mixtape Between the Pines.[2]