New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Consistent hitmaker Josh Kear, a Big Yellow Dog
Music writer since 2003, has scored the 13th No. 1 of his career with "Most People Are Good." The song appears on Luke Bryan's #1 Billboard 200 album 'What Makes You Country.'
"This song had me at 'most mama's outta qualify for sainthood'...Being a new mom myself, I had just enough rest to recognize that Josh Kear had just written another hit!" said Big Yellow Dog
Music co-founder Carla Wallace.
Kear also co-wrote "Hungover In A Hotel Room" from 'What Makes You Country,' while his song "Woman, Amen" (written with
Ross Copperman and Dierks Bentley), performed by Bentley, is fast climbing the charts and is inside the top 20 this week.
In the 15 years Josh Kear has been a Big Yellow Dog
Music writer, he has won the Country Song GRAMMY three times (the only songwriter to ever do so) and won the overall Song of the Year GRAMMY in 2011 for Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now." His previous chart-topping country hits include and Bryan's "Drunk On You," Tim McGraw's "Highway Don't Care,"
Blake Shelton's "Neon Light," and Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats."
About Big Yellow Dog Music:
"
Most People Are Good" (written by Kear,
David Frasier, Ed Hill) is Big Yellow Dog Music's fourth number #1 hit in less than 12 months, following Meghan Trainor's "Road Less Traveled" (performed by
Lauren Alaina),
Daniel Tashian's "Home Town Girl" (by Josh Turner), Kear's own "God, Your Mama, And Me" (by
Florida Georgia Line + Backstreet Boys), and Maren Morris' "I Could Use a Love Song" (performed by Morris).
Big Yellow Dog
Music is an independent music publishing and artist development company based in Nashville, TN. Over its 19 years of experience, it has been recognized with such accolades as four GRAMMYs (including all-genre Song of the Year "
Need You Now"), 35 No. 1 songs, four Song of the Year awards (ACM, BMI, and two ASCAP), an ASCAP Global Award, five ASCAP/BMI Pop Awards, and the 2017 AIMP Independent Publisher of the Year award.
Its catalog includes songs performed by Meghan Trainor, Maren Morris, Lady Antebellum, Demi Lovato, Rascal Flatts, Luke Bryan, Charlie Puth, Keith Urban, Labrinth, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Lane, Jason Derulo, Florida Georgia Line, DJ Khaled, Dierks Bentley, Fifth Harmony, Michael Bublé, Josh Turner, and others. Big Yellow Dog Music's film, television, and brand division had more than 400 placements in both 2016 and 2017, including uses by Big
Little Lies, JCPenney, How to Get Away With Murder, Shades of Blue, HP, Mad Max: Fury Road, Moana, The Peanuts Movie, T-Mobile, and The Edge of Seventeen.
