Songfacts®:

• Here, Brett Young chronicles a breakup with no blame on either side. Both parties deal with the end of the relationship in a dignified fashion because they recognize they're simply not meant to be.
  
  You ain't done nothing wrong
  I'm not where you belong
  Don't let one teardrop fall
  Girl, you think it's your fault but it isn't
  I fell in love and you didn't
  
  "You Didn't" is an unusually positive breakup anthem. "I think that the underlying message is that if you really care about someone, and they don't feel the way you do, you shouldn't make them feel bad for that or guilty or try to make them hurt just because you are," Young noted to CMT. "If you care about that person and what you hear them say is they need to go, you need to make them feel as comfortable as you can. That's a huge responsibility when you're getting your heart broken."
• Young penned the song with Ashley Gorley, Jon Nite and Jimmy Robbins during a late-night co-writing session at a writers' retreat in Florida. "You Didn't" came about after the four bonded over their mutual love for Boyz II Men. They set out to write something that captured the R&B group's musical vibe.
• All four songwriters are happily married, so in order to come up with a tearjerker along the lines of Boyz II Men's "End Of The Road," the quartet had to get creative. Young took himself back to his early years dating his wife Taylor, when their relationship was on again, off again, on again. "Turns out, in one or more of me and Taylor's little breakups that we had, I felt that way. And I didn't realize it until we sat down to write the song. Where it was like, 'I'm just in it more than you.' And I'm sure there were times when Taylor felt the same way," Young pointed out to The Boot. "But when we started talking about that, all the guys were like, 'Been there.' Even though none of us are there - not even close to there - we could all go back in our memories to times when we were, and it was a weird kind of 'turn back the clock' thing for all of us."
• "You Didn't" is the closing track of Young's third album, Weekends Look a Little Different These Days. The singer traditionally ends his records with a breakup ballad, like "Mercy" on Brett Young and "Don't Wanna Write This Song" on Ticket To L.A.
  
  "I always want to have one song on the record that, if you've had the worst day in your life at work and then there was traffic getting home and all you want to do is get home and put on your sweats and sit in front of the TV, and then a sad song comes on as you pull in the driveway, you still got to stop and cry in your driveway and finish the song before you go inside," Young told Apple Music. "And this song doesn't seem to fit the stage that I'm at in my life, but I feel like I owe it to the fans that found 'Mercy' on the first record to always have a song like this on the record. And it makes me feel bad in the best way."
• Brett Young is friendly with Boyz II Men. After feeling like they'd captured the group's aesthetic on this song, Young, Gorley, Nite and Robbins contacted them to check they'd got it right.
  
  "We felt like we nailed it," he told Audacy's Katie Neal. "To the point where we were like Facetiming the guys from Boyz II Men to play the song for 'em. We were just so excited about it!"
• The Seth Kupersmith-directed video finds Brett Young lamenting the one who got away. His wife Taylor portrays his ex-lover. Kupersmith is a frequent Young collaborator, also shooting his videos for "Mercy," "Catch" and "Lady."
• "You Didn't" reached Billboard's Country Airplay Top 10 in its 70th chart week, completing the longest trip to the summit in the chart's history.