Dan + Shay are back. The 3x GRAMMY Award-winning duo have announced their sixth studio album, Young, set for release on August 21, and if the early signs are anything to go by, it might just be their most significant record yet.
Co-produced by Dan Smyers alongside longtime collaborator Scott Hendricks, Young follows Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney through one of the most personally eventful chapters of their thirteen-year career — navigating family, faith and following dreams. The result, they say, is their most honest work to date.
“Every song is inspired by a true story, and gives a real-time snapshot of exactly where we are in our lives,” the duo shared. “Young is by far our most personal album yet, and we are beyond excited for our fans to hear it.”
The title track is out now and sets the tone perfectly — warm, reflective and quietly ambitious, it moves through the kind of universal life moments that Dan + Shay have always had a gift for articulating without ever making them feel small.
Lead single “Say So” is already making waves, sitting in the Top 30 and climbing at radio. The track addresses suicide prevention with a directness and sensitivity that has sparked genuine national conversation, and its music video — conceptualised and directed by Smyers himself — gives viewers space to respond in their own way. The duo are set to perform the track at the ACM Awards this Sunday, 17 May.
Young follows their critically acclaimed fifth album Bigger Houses, which featured the GRAMMY-nominated number one single of the same name and further cemented their place as one of country music’s most consistent forces. That consistency is hard to overstate: 14 billion global streams, 139 worldwide certifications, eight American Music Awards, four ACM Duo of the Year awards and three consecutive GRAMMY wins for Best Country Duo/Group Performance — a record no other act has matched since the category was created.
Outside of their own music, 2024 saw the pair make history as the first-ever coaching duo on NBC’s Emmy-winning series The Voice, adding yet another chapter to a career that shows no signs of slowing down.
Young is available to pre-order and pre-save now, with the title track out everywhere today.
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