Kane Brown and Katelyn Brown — who met as aspiring musicians in 2016 earlier than marrying two years later — joined forces on the CMT Music Awards stage final evening to carry out their duet, “Thank God.” Kane additionally co-hosted the present alongside Kelsea Ballerini.
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Written by Josh Hoge, Jaxson Free, Kyle Fishman, Christian Davis, and Jared Mullins, “Thank God” was initially launched as a monitor on Kane’s 2022 album Completely different Man. It peaked at quantity 13 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, Kane’s most profitable track thus far on that exact chart, and took dwelling the CMT Music Award for Video of the 12 months, breaking Carrie Underwood’s four-year successful streak.
“That is all so new to me, and once we recorded this track a 12 months in the past, I by no means in my life would ever suppose that this was going to occur,” Katelyn mentioned onstage. “I wish to say thanks a lot to my wonderful husband. I really like you. That is so particular that we get to share this collectively each evening.”
“Thank God” is Kane and Katelyn’s first skilled work collectively. Kane beforehand shared how the track got here to be:
“So me and Kate have been making an attempt to launch a track for like 5 years now. And we stored getting songs coming in, we thought that you understand, every of them was the track for us but it surely by no means felt proper,” he defined. “So my buddy Josh, that’s signed to my publishing deal, he despatched me a track known as ‘Thank God,’ and I listened to it and I fell in love with it. After which stored listened to it and stored listening to it. I used to be like, ‘This may very well be a duet.’ So I requested Kate, and Kate fell in love with the track, and now it’s considered one of my favourite songs.”
The couple, who share two daughters collectively, ended their efficiency with a heartwarming kiss.