You Say

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"You Say"
File:You Say (Official Single Cover) by Lauren Daigle.png
Single by Lauren Daigle
from the album Look Up Child
Released July 13, 2018[1]
Recorded 2018
Genre Contemporary Christian music
Length 4:34
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Jason Ingram
  • Paul Mabury
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"O'Lord"
(2017)
"You Say"
(2018)
"The Christmas Song"
(2018)
Music video
"You Say" on YouTube

"You Say " is a song by American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter Lauren Daigle. It is the lead single from her third studio album, Look Up Child.[2][3] Written by Daigle, Paul Mabury and Jason Ingram,[4] it was released as a single on July 13, 2018.[5] It reached No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, her first entry on the chart.[6] It is also Daigle's third No. 1 on the Hot Christian Songs chart.[7][8] The song debuted at No. 22 on the Christian Airplay chart, becoming the best start for a non-holiday song by a solo female artist in over eight years, since Francesca Battistelli's "Beautiful, Beautiful" debuted at No. 21 on March 20, 2010.[9] The song has spent 100 weeks at No. 1 on Hot Christian Songs, breaking the record for the most weeks spent at No. 1 by a song.

The song was a huge Christian radio success, peaking at No. 1 on multiple different charts including the Christian adult contemporary (AC) radio chart and Christian AC Indicator chart. It was released to mainstream radio on January 15, 2019 by Warner Bros. From there, it reached the Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary, and Mainstream Top 40 charts. Billboard ranked the song as the second-biggest Christian song of the 2010s. The magazine also ranked it as the second-biggest Christian song of 2018.

It won the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song.[10] It also won Top Christian Song at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards.[11]

Background

"You Say" was released on July 13, 2018, as the lead single for her third studio album Look Up Child. The song was released to Christian radio on July 9.[12] Daigle sat down for a podcast with Billboard, and discussed her new single and upcoming album. "I knew this would be a song of my identity," she says. "'You say I am loved.' That's the truth." As for the album, Daigle says, "I want this to be such a record of joy, such a record of hope, that people experience a childlikeness again. In the time of making this record, I had to remember who I was as a child. I want people to reflect on, 'The innocence of my childhood … how do I see myself through those eyes again? How do I love myself like that again? Where's that joy? Where's that hope?'"[13]

Composition

"You Say" is originally in the key of F major, with a tempo of 74 beats per minute. Written in common time, the song is based around a chord progression of F-Am–Dm–B. Daigle's vocal range spans from D3 to A4 during the song.[14]

Commercial performance

The song debuted at No. 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue week of July 28, 2018.[15] In its ninth week, it climbed to No. 44;[16] it reached a new peak of No. 29 in March 2019. It remained on the chart for 43 weeks.[17]

It debuted at No. 33 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart on the issue week of July 21, 2018.[18] The following week, it jumped to No. 1, becoming Daigle's third No. 1 on the chart, and breaking the record for the biggest jump to No. 1.[19] It has since stayed there for 93 weeks, breaking the record for longest running song in the chart's history held by "Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)" by Hillsong United.[20] As of April 25, 2019, it has stayed on the chart for 101 weeks.[21] The song has spent 17 weeks at No. 1 on the Christian Airplay chart. [22] The song also crossed over to the Canadian Hot 100, New Zealand Hot Singles chart, and Scotland Singles Chart, and Belgian Ultratip Chart, France, Switzerland and in the Netherlands.

It also debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Digital Songs chart, breaking the record for the highest-ever debut by a contemporary Christian artist with a non-holiday song.[23][24] It was ranked at No. 50 on Billboard's Decade-End Digital Songs chart.[25] It also crossed over to the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart, peaking at No. 5.[26]

The song received a triple platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 26, 2020.

Music video

A music video for the single "You Say" was released on July 13, 2018.[27] The video shows Daigle singing the song around a house in soft, golden-hour lighting.[28] The video has over 169 million views on YouTube.[29]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal.[30]

  • Lauren Daigle – vocals, songwriter
  • Jason Ingram – songwriter
  • Paul Mabury – songwriter
  • Joe La Porta – mastering engineer

Track listings

Live performances

Daigle first performed the single "You Say" in the close out of the 2018 GMA Dove Awards.[33] She also performed the track on Good Morning America.[34] She then performed the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on February 26, 2019.[35] On May 1, 2019, Daigle performed the song during the 2019 Billboard Music Awards.[36]

Accolades

Awards
Year Organization Award Result Ref.
2019 Grammy Awards Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song Won [37]
Billboard Music Awards Top Christian Song Won [38]
GMA Dove Awards Song of the Year Won [39]
Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year Nominated

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Belgium (BEA)[75] Gold 15,000
Canada (Music Canada)[76] 2× Platinum 20,000
France (SNEP)[77] Gold 150,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[78] Silver 200,000
United States (RIAA)[79] 3× Platinum 3,000,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone
double-daggersales/streaming figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region Date Format Label Ref.
United States July 9, 2018 Christian radio Centricity [80]
January 15, 2019 Top 40 radio
[81]

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See also