"You Make It Easy" is a song written by

Florida Georgia Line Florida Georgia Line is an American country music duo founded in 2010 by Tyler Hubbard of Georgia and Brian Kelley of Florida, both of whom are vocalists and songwriters. Their 2012 debut single "Cruise" broke two major sales records: it was ...

members

Tyler Hubbard Tyler Reed Hubbard (born January 31, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter, and musician, best known as a former member of the Nashville-based duo Florida Georgia Line. Hubbard, a native of Monroe, Georgia, had been involved with music since ...

and

Brian Kelley Brian Edward Kelley (born August 26, 1985) is an American musician, best known as a member of the Nashville-based duo Florida Georgia Line. Kelley is from Ormond Beach, Florida, and enjoyed playing sports and music growing up. He moved to Nashvil ...

with

Morgan Wallen Morgan Cole Wallen (born May 13, 1993) is an American country singer and songwriter. He competed in the sixth season of ''The Voice'', originally as a member of Usher's team, but later as a member of Adam Levine's team. After being eliminated i ...

and

Jordan Schmidt Jordan Schmidt (born February 26, 1988) is a Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum songwriter and music producer. He has co-written, engineered or produced songs for Kane Brown, Morgan Wallen, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, blackbear, Dan + Shay, K ...

and recorded by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, o ...

singer

Jason Aldean Jason Aldean (born Jason Aldine Williams; February 28, 1977) is an American country music singer. Since 2005, he has been signed to Broken Bow Records, a record label for which he has released ten albums and 40 singles. His 2010 album, ''My Kind ...

. It was released in February 2018 as the first single from Aldean's 2018 album ''

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''.

Content

and

, who comprise the duo

, wrote the song with

and

. It is the fourth song co-written by the duo that Aldean has recorded, after the singles "

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" and "

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", and the album cut "Black Tears". According to Wallen, Hubbard was inspired by his wife, Hayley, and the relationship that the two have despite Hubbard being constantly on the road as a musician. Wallen also stated that he had most of the song written starting with the hook, when Schmidt added the "groove". The song features a 6/8

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which Cillea Houghton of ''

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'' compared to

Keith Urban Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967) is an Australian-American musician, singer, guitarist and songwriter known for his work in country music. Recognized with four Grammy Awards, Urban also received fifteen Academy of Country Music Awa ...

's 2017 hit "

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". In it, Aldean sings of loving his wife, and how she "make it easy" to love her in return.

Commercial performance

On the chart dated February 3, 2018, "You Make It Easy" debuted at number 26 on the US ''

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chart. It has since reached number 14. The next week, it debuted at number 28 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 due to strength of digital sales. The song reached number one on the Country Airplay for chart dated May 5, 2018, thus becoming Aldean's 18th number one hit. "You Make It Easy" sold 77,000 copies in its first week of sales. It was the top-selling country song of the week. It has sold 601,000 copies in the United States as of January 2019.

Music video

The song features a three-part

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spanning 15 minutes, directed by

Shaun Silva Shaun Silva is a music video director who works primarily in the country music field. He has directed a number of music videos for many country music artists, including many of Kenny Chesney's music videos. His other clients include Jason Aldean, ...

. In it, actor

Luke Benward Luke Aaron Benward (born May 12, 1995) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Will in the Disney film ''Cloud 9'' (2014). His first starring role was Billy Forrester in ''How to Eat Fried Worms'' (2006), and as Charl ...

plays a man who is injured in a car accident. Silva said that he was inspired by the video for "

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" by

Rascal Flatts Rascal Flatts is an American country music band founded in 1999. The band members were Gary LeVox (lead vocals), Jay DeMarcus (bass guitar, background vocals), and Joe Don Rooney (lead guitar, background vocals). DeMarcus is LeVox's second co ...

, which he also directed.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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