Take My Name

Album: For You (2021)
Charted: 22
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a marriage proposal song where singer Matt Thomas drops down on one knee to a young lady he's just met. "'Take My Name' is a song about finding the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. A feeling you haven't had before," Thomas stated to American Songwriter. "You don't want to look anywhere else or waste any more time. You are ready to make that person yours."
  • Thomas wrote the heartfelt love ballad with Ashley Gorley, Ben Johnson, and the track's producer David Fanning. It was inspired by his brother and band member Scott Thomas' marriage to Lexia Chamryk in November 2021. "It made me sit back and think about what I would want to say to my future wife," he told Sounds Like Nashville.
  • Parmalee recorded the romantic tune for their For You album. The band released it as single after they posted a snippet to TikTok, and then realized many fans wanted the full song for their weddings.
  • "Take My Name" topped Billboard's year-end Country Airplay Songs chart for 2022. It spent 22 weeks inside the Top 10, the fourth-longest Top 10 residency since the listing started in January 1990.

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