Old Dominion

Nashville's Old Dominion crafts contemporary country marked by rock instrumentation and robust internal songwriting. The five-piece surfaced amid bro-country's decline, a movement they helped shape by penning hits for Luke Bryan and Cole Swindell. Their early singles balanced modern pop sensibilities with classic soft-rock textures, evident on 2015's "Break Up with Him" and 2016's "Snapback." Collaboration with producer and songwriter Shane McAnally has kept the group current, yielding multiple chart-toppers such as "Song for Another Time," "No Such Thing as a Broken Heart," "Written in the Sand," "Make It Sweet," and "One Man Band." Following their 2021 fourth album, Time, Tequila & Therapy, Old Dominion achieved their ninth Country Airplay number one with "Memory Lane," the title track of their 2023 release that later expanded from an EP; the career-spanning Odies But Goodies arrived the next year.

The lineup unites four Virginians—Matt Ramsey on lead vocals and guitar, Geoff Sprung on bass and vocals, Whit Sellers on drums, and Brad Tursi on guitar and vocals—with Detroit native Trevor Rosen handling guitar, keyboards, and vocals; the members coalesced in Nashville. Ramsey, Rosen, and Tursi rank among elite modern country songwriters, with tracks they authored recorded by the Band Perry, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Chris Young, and Craig Morgan, drawing swift industry notice. Sessions alongside Shane McAnally and Ilya Toshinsky produced the self-titled debut EP in fall 2014. The single "Break Up with Him" gained traction in early 2015, aided by its Back to the Future-referencing video, and claimed the top spot on Billboard's Country Airplay chart that summer, paving the way for the November arrival of their McAnally-produced debut album, Meat & Candy.

March 2017 brought the single "No Such Thing as a Broken Heart," the opening track from their second album. Produced again by McAnally, Happy Endings arrived that August and featured "Written in the Sand," their fifth straight platinum-certified single; the set led the country charts while reaching the Billboard 200's Top Ten. "Make It Sweet" emerged as a single in October 2018, followed by a tour supporting their self-titled third album the following year. Like its predecessor, that release topped Country Albums and delivered the modest hit "One Man Band." The breezy "Everything to Lose" surfaced in mid-2020, and 2021's summertime anthem "I Was on a Boat That Day" launched their fourth project. Surprise-released that October as Time, Tequila & Therapy, the album peaked at number 27 on the Billboard 200 and number four on Country Albums, later spawning the modest hit "No Hard Feelings."

"Memory Lane" became Old Dominion's ninth Country Airplay number one in 2023, preceding a June EP of the same name that included the Megan Moroney duet "Can't Break Up Now" and eventually grew into a full-length album. The band issued the single "Coming Home" in June 2024, and Odies But Goodies appeared later that year as a retrospective collection of highlights and lesser-known cuts.