Friends (Blake Shelton song): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox song

| name = Friends

| cover = Blake-Shelton-Friends.jpg

| alt = An "Angry Bird" version of Blake Shelton appears, with green skin and wearing a leather jacket, with the title of the song displayed above his head.

| border = yes

| type = promo

| artist = [[Blake Shelton]]

| album = [[If I'm Honest]] ''and'' [[The Angry Birds Movie#Soundtrack|The Angry Birds Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]

| released = April 8, 2016

| recorded = 2016

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = [[Country music|Country]]

| length = {{Duration|m=3|s=03}}

| label = {{flatlist|

*[[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]

*[[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros. Nashville]]

}}

| writer = {{flatlist|

* Blake Shelton

* [[Jessi Alexander]]

}}

| producer = [[Scott Hendricks]]

| chronology = ''If I'm Honest''

}}

'''"Friends"''' is a song recorded by American singer [[Blake Shelton]]. It was released as the first [[promotional single]] from Shelton's tenth studio album, ''[[If I'm Honest]]'' (2016), and is the theme song to the 2016 film ''[[The Angry Birds Movie]]''<!-- DO NOT CHANGE -->. It was issued as a [[Music download|digital download]] on April 8, 2016. The track was written by both Shelton and [[Jessi Alexander]], who had collaborated before on [[Blake Shelton]]'s "[[Drink on It]]", and "[[Mine Would Be You]]".

The song is about two friends loving each other and sticking together, despite them being "different as different can be". The song describes how friends may fight, but "in the end [they] are gonna be friends".

== Chart performance ==

After the initial release of "Friends", the song only peaked on one [[record chart]], the US Kid Digital Songs component chart. For the week ending April 30, 2016, it debuted and peaked at number three, before departing the chart an additional four weeks later.<ref name="Charts" />

== Charts ==

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! scope="col"| Chart (2016)

! scope="col"| Peak<br /> position

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! scope="row"| US [[Digital Songs|Kid Digital Songs]] ([[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']])<ref name="Charts">{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/biz/charts/2015-04-11/kid-digital-songs|title=Kid Digital Songs: April 30, 2016 |date= April 30, 2016 |access-date=May 25, 2016}}</ref>

| style="text-align:center"| 3

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== References ==

{{reflist|30em}}

{{Blake Shelton songs}}

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