Be By You

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We got Luke Combs with Be By You.

Get in and start the truck, put it in drive.

It's orange ass and microphone.

Today's guest is Dan Alley.

You know Dan from songs like Be By You, recorded by Luke Combs.

A country song came on, recorded by Luke Bryan, and he's also a songwriter on House Again, recorded by Hudson Westbrook.

I really enjoyed this conversation with Dan.

Yeah.

Uh, it's called

be by you,

be by you.

that's gonna be this

whole episode is me going who is streaming this but let's just get it started so i thought for starters i should just go through and tell you guys what the top 20 currently so i'm recording this on august 28th i think the billboard charts update every monday so actually by the time this episode comes out it's probably going to be a new chart but as of right now this is the top 20 on the billboard hot 100 okay number 20 we have earrings by malcolm todd 19 is oh yeah steve lacey 18 loser tayman paula 17 be by you luke combs 16 janice shut the up by drake 15 midnight sons are larson 14 stupid stupid song olivia rodrigo 13 i just might bruno mars 12 drop dead olivia rodrigo 11 risk it all bruno mars 10 be her ella langley nine man i need olivia dean eight dracula by taymond paula and jenny seven so easy to love olivia dean six i can't love you anymore ella langley and morgan wallen five hate that i made you love me ariana grande four been by now morgan wallen three i knew it i knew you taylor swift two boston stella lefty and number one choose in texas by ella langley so now that you guys have a have a little understanding of what we're working with here again i listen to every single song and i wrote i wrote a lot of notes down i wrote notes after every single song and then i decided to rank them so starting at dead last dead last in 20 place 20th place i have boston by stella lefty okay this song i have to like compose myself because i have so much to say about this um now just for reference this is the number two song currently so it's out of out of the top 20 this is my least favorite song but this is number two this is the number two song in the country right now it peaked at number two and it's been on the chart for 20 weeks and last week it was at number four so it's going up there This song is not fucking real to me.

I...

Who the fuck is Stella Lefty? Who is this girl? Like...

that it's on the charts you know what i mean i put in my notes i i don't know i put in my notes i don't know i like the oh the chorus is fun but like bruno has bruno what did i put oh i put sorry i'm just whenever i have to read stuff this is where the podcasts start falling apart because i can't read i'm dyslexic i put has bruno has whoa see i'm already flopping has bruno mars not been making this exact same song for the last 15 years a good question it's a valid question

but nobody wants to ask it so

that's why he's number what is it 13 on the charts okay sure if you want him to be number what are we on number seven this one was shocking to me what is it oh be by you by luke combs you know luke combs is one of the few country current country people that i i don't want to like staple my ears together when I hear.

He also is not evil to me.

And he'd written this song that came out, and they released it digitally on Spotify and other platforms, and Luke Combs sang it, and Luke Combs sort of famously said, "It's the first song I've ever recorded that gets stuck in my head." It is also Luke Combs' 29th number one song.

Nick Walsh, the former punter at K-State, has, has written Billboard's number one song, Be By You.

We played it for you, and it was a terrific interview.

It's back in the archives if you wanna hear it.

[laughs] It's true.

Uh, just tweeted out by Tim Fitzgerald by Go Power Cat, that, uh, Luke Combs has a, uh, a new song out called Be By You, and, uh, and that's-

Banger, by the way.

Yeah, and that...

Nothing beats that view.

I guess what it comes down to.

[country music] Is I just wanna be by you.

[country music]