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Today (Brad Paisley song)

"Today"
Single by Brad Paisley
from the album Love and War
Released October 6, 2016 (2016-10-06)
Format Streaming audio
Genre Country
Length 3:49
Label Arista Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Brad Paisley
  • Luke Wooten
Brad Paisley singles chronology
"Without a Fight"
(2016)
"Today"
(2016)
"Last Time for Everything"
(2017)
"Without a Fight"
(2016)
"Today"
(2016)
"Last Time for Everything"
(2017)

"Today" is a song recorded by American country music artist Brad Paisley. It was released on October 6, 2016 by Arista Nashville as the first single from his eleventh studio album, Love and War. Paisley co-wrote the song with Chris DuBois and Ashley Gorley, and co-produced it with Luke Wooten.

"Today" gave Paisley his first number one on the Billboard Country Digital Song sales chart. It accumulated 41,000 downloads in its debut week and after its first full week, jumped from number 49 to 12 on the Hot Country Songs chart, with 1.1 million first-week streams and an airplay audience of 3.9 million. The song has sold 151,000 copies as of March 2017.

On March 12, 2017, it was revealed that "Today" had reached the top of the Mediabase charts, marking the 24th No.1 song of Paisley's career.

The music video was directed by Paisley and Jim Shea and premiered in October 2016. The emotional video quickly went viral after its release and has been viewed over 25 million times during the first week with over ½ million shares on Facebook.

The video focuses on the song's central idea of a happy memory being enough to sustain one through the hard times.


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