Songfacts®:

• "Your Way's Better" is Forrest Frank's anthem of surrender to God. Acknowledging that he's searched far and wide for purpose, Frank sees how his life ultimately holds no meaning without Christ and delivers a somewhat countercultural message to a me-centered generation.
• The song is rooted in Frank's own journey of drifting, breaking, and, eventually, rediscovering the God he'd known all along. He grew up in a Christian home but wandered off in his teenage and college years, sniffing about for something more exciting than Jesus and finding that most things labeled "fulfillment" out in the world come with a faint whiff of disappointment and quite a lot of receipts.
  
  Frank, feeling broken and empty, returned to his faith and a renewed relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Forrest Frank wrote and produced "Your Way's Better" with Pera Krstajic. A Serbian bassist, producer, and composer based in Los Angeles, Krstajic is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and has frequently collaborated with Frank.
• The song was released on October 25, 2024, and included on the deluxe edition of Frank's album Child of God, which dropped a week later.
• "Your Way's Better" inspired a simple, accessible dance that trended across age groups. Families, youth groups, and many very enthusiastic church aunties posted TikToks of themselves grooving to a chorus about surrendering to God's guidance.
• The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 on May 3, 2025, joining another openly Christian song on the tally, Brandon Lake's "Hard Fought Hallelujah." This is noteworthy because Christian tracks are a genre that has rarely made inroads on the Hot 100 historically.
• Forrest Frank told Billboard "Your Way's Better" was born during a rough day when he went out for a drive to clear his head. As he pulled into his neighborhood, the chorus came to him spontaneously - "a prayer that ended up having a melody," as he put it. Frank recorded it on a voice memo and left it untouched for a few months.
  
  Later, backstage during his 2024 Child of God tour, he opened his laptop and started building a beat around it. The song evolved further when his producer friend Pera Krstajic joined a session. "I told him, 'What if you play something kind of somber?'" Frank recalled. "He started playing, and I just freestyled the melody and some of the words that ended up making the final cut."