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What Ifs

2017 single by Kane Brown featuring Lauren Alaina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
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"What Ifs" is a song recorded by American singer Kane Brown featuring fellow American singer Lauren Alaina for Brown's self-titled debut album. The song was released with the album through RCA Nashville and was serviced to radio as the second single on February 6, 2017.

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The public source identifies “What Ifs” as 2017 single by Kane Brown featuring Lauren Alaina. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around What, single and Kane.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with What, single and Kane providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2025. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “What Ifs” 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.