Released April 8, 2016 Recorded 2016 Length 3:03 | Format Digital download | |
Label AtlanticWarner Bros. Nashville | ||
"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 also featured on The Angry Birds Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016). It was issued as a digital download on April 8, 2016. The track was written by both Shelton and Jessi Alexander, becoming their first collaboration together.
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.