Ocean (Lady Antebellum album)

Ocean is the eighth studio album by American country pop trio Lady Antebellum, and the final one released under that name before it was shortened to "Lady A". The album was released on November 15, 2019, through BMLG Records. This is their first album with the label, and first to be produced by Dann Huff. A deluxe edition of the album was released November 20, 2020 under their name "Lady A".

Ocean
Studio album by Lady Antebellum
Released	November 15, 2019 (2019-11-15)
Genre	Country pop^[1]
Length	47:38
Label	BMLG
Producer	Dann Huff
Lady Antebellum chronology
Heart Break (2017) Ocean (2019) What a Song Can Do (2021)
Singles from Ocean
"What If I Never Get Over You" Released: May 17, 2019 "Ocean" Released: October 7, 2019 "What I'm Leaving For" Released: February 18, 2020 "Champagne Night" Released: April 13, 2020

Background

In August 2018, Lady Antebellum signed with BMLG Records after their recording contract with Capitol Nashville ended. In March 2019, while performing in London, the trio announced that they were working on new music.

Singles

"What If I Never Get Over You" was released on May 17, 2019, as the album's lead single. The song debuted at number 14 on the Hot Country Songs chart,^[2] and at number 25 on the Country Airplay chart.^[3] As of September 2019, it has sold 68,000 units in the United States.^[4] The song topped the Country Airplay chart in January 2020, becoming their first number one since 2014.^[5]

The title track was released on September 20, 2019 as a promotional single, and was sent to adult contemporary radio as the album's second single on October 7, 2019.^[6][7]

"What I'm Leaving For" was released as a promotional single on October 25, 2019 and was released to country radio on February 18, 2020 as the third official single.^[8][5] A ballad about leaving one's family to go to work, it was later pulled from radio in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[9]

"Pictures", "Boots", and "Be Patient with My Love" were also released as promotional singles ahead of the album.^[10][11]

Commercial performance

Ocean debuted at number two on the US Top Country Albums earning 29,000 equivalent album units (including 21,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week, according to Nielsen Music.^[12] The album also debuted at number 11 on the US Billboard 200 chart, becoming the group's first album to miss the top-ten.^[13] As of February 2020, the album has earned with 172,000 album-equivalent units in the US.^[14] As of March 2020, the album has sold 62,400 copies in the United States.^[15]

Track listing

Adapted from Taste of Country and Lady Antebellum's Instagram.^[16][17]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"What If I Never Get Over You"	Sam Ellis Ryan Hurd Laura Veltz Jon Green	Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott	3:26
2.	"Pictures"	Dave Haywood Kelley Scott Sarah Buxton Corey Crowder	Scott	2:58
3.	"Crazy Love"	Kelley Nathan Chapman	Kelley	3:25
4.	"You Can Do You"	Haywood Kelley Crowder Jordan Schmidt	Kelley, Scott	4:08
5.	"What I'm Leaving For"	Ellis Veltz Micah Premnath	Scott, Kelley	3:23
6.	"Be Patient with My Love"	Kelley Dave Barnes Ben West	Kelley	5:06
7.	"Alright"	Haywood Kelley Scott busbee Justin Ebach	Scott	3:16
8.	"Let It Be Love"	Scott Jordan Reynolds Amy Wadge	Scott, Kelley	3:38
9.	"On a Night Like This"	Barnes	Scott, Kelley	3:23
10.	"Boots"	Kelley Ross Copperman	Kelley	3:33
11.	"The Thing That Wrecks You" (featuring Little Big Town)	Daniel Tashian Tenille Townes Kate York	Kelley, Jimi Westbrook, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild	4:35
12.	"Mansion"	Chris DeStefano Hillary Lindsey Josh Miller	Scott	3:12
13.	"Ocean"	Buxton Tofer Brown Abe Stoklasa	Scott	3:30
Total length:				47:38

Ocean - Deluxe Edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
14.	"Heroes" (featuring Thomas Rhett)	Scott Kelley Haywood busbee	Kelley, Rhett	3:57
15.	"Champagne Night" (from Songland)	Scott Kelley Haywood Madeline Merlo Shane McAnally Tina Parol David Thomson Patricia Conroy	Scott, Kelley	3:05
16.	"Underwater"	Corey Sanders Green Veltz	Kelley	3:17
17.	"Let It Be Love" (at Home version)	Scott Reynolds Wadge	Scott, Kelley	3:41
18.	"Champagne Night" (Tiki Bar version)	Scott Kelley Haywood Merlo McAnally Parol Thomson Conroy	Scott, Kelley	3:05
19.	"What If I Never Get Over You" (Live from 3rd and Lindsley)	Ellis Hurd Veltz Green	Kelley, Scott	3:31
Total length:				68:14

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic^[18]

Lady Antebellum

• Dave Haywood – acoustic guitar, background vocals, banjo, creative director, keyboards, mandolin, resonator guitar, harmonica
• Charles Kelley – background vocals, creative director, lead vocals
• Hillary Scott – background vocals, creative director, lead vocals

Additional musicians

David Angell – violin Monisa Angell – viola David Davidson – violin Stuart Duncan – fiddle Conni Ellisor – violin Paul Franklin – steel guitar Dann Huff – accordion, acoustic guitar, banjo, bass guitar, bouzouki, dobro, Fender Rhodes, resonator guitar, Hammond B3, keyboards, mandolin, percussion, piano, soloist, synthesizer, synthesizer piano, synthesizer strings Charlie Judge – Hammond B3, keyboards, lap steel guitar, piano, synthesizer piano, synthesizer strings Anthony La Marchina – cello Elizabeth Lamb – viola

Little Big Town – featured artist Gordon Mote – piano Carole Rabinowitz – cello Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass Aaron Sterling – drums, percussion Ilya Toshinskiy – acoustic guitar, banjo, dobro, resonator guitar, mandolin, soloist Derek Wells – electric guitar Kris Wilkinson – string arrangement Kristin Wilkinson – viola Karen Winkleman – violin Alex Wright – Hammond B3, steel guitar, Wurlitzer

Production

Adam Ayan – mixing Drew Bollman – engineer Nathan Chapman – programming Ross Copperman – programming Cory Crowder – programming Shawn Daugherty – assistant Josh Ditty – assistant Parker Foote – graphic design Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordination Dann Huff – digital editing, producer, programming Charlie Judge – programming

Seth Morton - engineer Abby Murdock - graphic design Joshua Sage Newman – graphic design Justin Niebank – mixing, programming Ryon Nishimori – graphic design Doug Rich – copy coordination Dove Shore - photography Chris Small – digital editing Janice Soled – copy coordination Ben West – programming Alex Wright – programming

Charts

Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for Ocean Chart (2019) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)^[19] 7 Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[20] 17 Scottish Albums (OCC)^[21] 10 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[22] 24 UK Albums (OCC)^[23] 29 UK Country Albums (OCC)^[24] 1 US Billboard 200^[25] 11 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[26] 2

Year-end charts 2020 year-end chart performance for Ocean Chart (2020) Position US Top Album Sales (Billboard)^[27] 92 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[28] 48

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