Tangled Up (Thomas Rhett album)

Tangled Up is the second studio album by American country music singer Thomas Rhett. It was released on September 25, 2015, via Valory Music Group.[1][2][3] The album's lead single "Crash and Burn", was released to radio on April 27, 2015. The album's second single, "Die a Happy Man" was released to country radio on September 28, 2015, but was available for download as a pre-order for the album on September 18, 2015.

Tangled Up
Studio album by
Thomas Rhett
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2015 (2015-09-25)
Recorded2015
GenreCountry
Length44:21
LabelValory
Producer
Thomas Rhett chronology
It Goes Like This
(2013)		 Tangled Up
(2015)		 Life Changes
(2017)
Singles from Tangled Up
  1. "Crash and Burn"
    Released: April 27, 2015
  2. "Die a Happy Man"
    Released: September 28, 2015
  3. "T-Shirt"
    Released: February 16, 2016
  4. "Vacation"
    Released: June 13, 2016
  5. "Star of the Show"
    Released: October 3, 2016

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Billboard[5]

Critical

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic thought that the Thomas Rhett's second album feels like an album "where the singer/songwriter comes into his own" and rated the album 4 stars out of 5. He thought that Rhett "displays an omnivorous cultural appetite" in the album where Rhett might be "dropping passing allusions to Guns N' Roses and Third Eye Blind" to using disco beat. He judged Rhett to be "a true pop artist, harnessing the trends of his time and turning them into music that's hard to resist."[4] Billboard also picked up on the disco influence, noting that songs in the album, such as "Tangled", "sound as Saturday Night Fever’d as anything recorded by a male country star in decades", but wondered whether "country radio will fully embrace their Nashville disco or ignore it."[5]

Commercial

Tangled Up debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 6 and Top Country Albums at No. 3, with 76,000 units sold, 63,000 of which are pure album sales.[6] It reached No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart in its fourth week.[7] The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on September 20, 2016.[8] The album has sold over 598,900 copies in the US as of September 2017.[9]

Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the album's third track, "South Side", for their 2015 film and soundtrack Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip.

Track listing
Tangled Up – Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Anthem"
3:13
2."Crash and Burn"
  • Huff
  • Frasure
3:10
3."South Side"
  • Rhett
  • Frasure
  • Stapleton
  • Huff
  • Frasure
2:51
4."Die a Happy Man"
  • Huff
  • Frasure
3:47
5."Vacation"
  • Huff
  • Frasure
3:43
6."Like It's the Last Time"
  • Huff
  • Frasure
3:10
7."T-Shirt"
  • Huff
  • Frasure
3:47
8."Single Girl"
  • Huff
  • Frasure
3:18
9."The Day You Stop Looking Back"
  • Huff
  • Frasure
3:25
10."Tangled"
  • Huff
  • Frasure
3:33
11."Playing with Fire" (featuring Jordin Sparks)
  • Rhett
  • Akins
  • Gorley
DeStefano3:26
12."I Feel Good" (featuring LunchMoney Lewis)
Joe London3:16
13."Learned It from the Radio"
  • Galyon
  • Gorley
  • Robbins
DeStefano3:39
Total length:44:21
Tangled Up – Deluxe edition (bonus tracks)[10]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
14."Star of the Show"
  • Rhett
  • Akins
  • Hayslip
  • London
  • Julian Bunetta
  • Rhett
3:02
15."American Spirit"
  • Rhett
  • DeStefano
  • Johnston
  • Frasure
  • Johnston
  • Rhett
3:38
16."Background Music"
  • Rhett
  • Akins
  • Hayslip
  • Lindsay Rimes
  • Frasure
  • Rimes
  • Rhett
2:50
17."Playing with Fire" (featuring Danielle Bradbery)
  • Rhett
  • Akins
  • Gorley
DeStefano3:26
18."Die a Happy Man" (featuring Tori Kelly (The Remix))
  • Rhett
  • Douglas
  • Spargur
Carl Falk3:29

Personnel

Charts

Album

Singles
Year Single Peak chart positions
US Hot Country
[27]		 US Country Airplay
[28]		 US
[29]		 CAN Country
[30]		 CAN
[31]
2015 "Crash and Burn" 2 1 36 1 47
"Die a Happy Man" 1 1 21 1 35
2016 "T-Shirt" 3 1 41 1 53
"Vacation" 19 30 101 39 —
"Star of the Show 4 1 45 1 77
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[32] Gold 40,000
United States (RIAA)[8] 2× Platinum 598,900[9]

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References
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  5. "Country Stars Thomas Rhett and Brett Eldredge Catch Disco Fever on New Records: Album Review". Billboard. September 21, 2015.
  6. Keith Caulfield (October 4, 2015). "Fetty Wap Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart". Billboard.
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