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Across the Sheets

2023 studio album by Brett Young

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ123125214
Source-derived summary

Across the Sheets is the fourth studio album by American country music singer Brett Young. It was released on August 4, 2023, via Big Machine Label Group. The album was preceded by the release of "Dance with You" in June 2023.

Content

Young co-wrote seven of the album's eight tracks, with the exception being his cover of Tim McGraw's "Don't Take the Girl". It also includes a re-recorded version of "You Ain't Here to Kiss Me", which was originally featured on Young's self-titled debut album (2017).

A deluxe edition titled Across the Sheets (Barefoot Edition), containing a total of 16 tracks, including the standard tracklist plus acoustic versions of each song, was released on May 31, 2024, via Big Machine. It includes a collaboration with American singer-songwriter, Ashley Cooke.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes and Tidal.

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“Across the Sheets” enters the record as 2023 studio album by Brett Young. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Across, Sheets and studio can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 2017, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Across, Sheets and studio.
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“Across the Sheets” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Across, Sheets and studio provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123125214. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023, 2017 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from Across the Sheets” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.