Dolly Parton, Morgan Wallen, More

Submit Malone has made such a targeted appeal offensive on Nashville that it’s much less a query of who’s on his new, full-on nation album “F-1 Trillion” than who isn’t: legends like Dolly Parton and Hank Williams Jr., vets like Tim McGraw and Blake Shelton, reigning chart champ Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs, virtuosos like Chris Stapleton and Invoice Strings, relative newcomers Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson, and lots of others throughout the album’s sprawling 18 songs — simply three of them aren’t duets (apart from the 9 solo bonus tracks that he surprise-dropped 12 hours after the album’s launch).

He’s leaned into the imagery of all of it as nicely, with pickup vans, beer and American flags within the video for the album’s chart-topping lead single with Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Assist” and lyrical references about babes, booze, benders, vehicles, weapons, cigarettes, booze, soccer, heartbreaks, rushing tickets, booze, vehicles, booze and extra booze.

Submit is a Texas native who began as a singer earlier than he turned a world-beating rapper, and he’s been leaning on this course and performing acoustically lately. His efforts in Nashville have paid off: His collaborators and lots of Nashville business sorts rave about what a gifted, beautiful and real man he’s.

The majority of this album was produced by his longtime collaborators Louis Bell (Taylor Swift’s “Fortnite,” Camila Cabello’s “Havana,” Halsey, Kanye West and lots of others) and Charlie Good-looking (Kanye West, Drake, Jack Harlow, Ariana Grande, Travis Scott, Mac Miller and extra), with three co-produced by Hoskins (Khalid, Teezo Landing, Don Toliver, Alesso); Bell and Good-looking every have a writing credit score on each track as nicely. Whereas the producers are primarily from the hip-hop and pop worlds and don’t have deep nation bona fides, it’s within the songwriting the place Submit has gone deep.

In actual fact, he’s enlisted a military of the town’s most profitable songwriters to collaborate. The total credit are listed under, however frequent collaborators — lots of whom are additionally profitable artists — embody:

Ashley Gorely: Named Selection’s Hitmakers songwriter of the yr for 2023 due to his a number of credit with Morgan Wallen, he’s additionally labored extensively with Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton, Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton, Hardy and lots of others.

Ernest: One other huge Wallen collaborator, his credit stretch far past Nashville and embody Jazmine Sullivan, Zayn and Lil Durk in addition to extra anticipated artists like Jelly Roll, Kane Brown and Florida Georgia Line; he’s additionally a profitable artist and is a featured performer on

James McNair: One in all Luke Combs’ main collaborators, his credit additionally embody Wallen, Hardy, Florida Georgia Line, Woman A, Keith City and others.

Chandler Walters: A relative newcomer, Walters is an Ernest protégé and performed guitar in his band earlier than touchdown three cuts on Bailey Zimmerman’s hit debut album “Religiously” and 4 cuts right here.

Different Nashville vets with two cuts every are Chase McGill (Wallen, Hardy, Luke Combs, Kane Brown, Thomas Rhett) and Josh Thompson (Wallen, Rhett, Jason Aldean).

The total songwriting credit seem under; all songs had been produced by Bell and Good-looking besides as famous.