Sacks & Co. /// Chris Stapleton

May 20, 2024—Two of music’s most beloved and acclaimed artists, Chris Stapleton and Dua Lipa, have collaborated to release “Think I’m In Love With You (with Dua Lipa) (Live from the 59th ACM Awards).” Listen HERE.

Recorded live at last week’s ACM Awards in Frisco, TX, the surprise duet features Stapleton and Dua Lipa alongside Stapleton’s band, The Honchos, as well as a 13-piece string section.

“stunning…That the performance was so damn good only made the subterfuge all the more worth it.” —Rolling Stone

“the best performance of the night”—Vulture

“The sultry performance paired his grizzled vocal with her soaring, polished tones, making for what was surely one of the most talked about performances.”—Billboard

“electric and soulful”—American Songwriter

About Chris Stapleton:

Kentucky-born Chris Stapleton is a 10x Grammy, 16x CMA and 19x ACM Award-winner and one of the country’s most respected and beloved musicians. In the midst of yet another triumphant year, Stapleton recently won four awards at 59th ACM Awards as well as two more trophies at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards.

These accomplishments celebrate Stapleton’s new album, Higher, which was released this past fall to overwhelming critical acclaim. Produced by Dave Cobb, Morgane Stapleton and Chris Stapleton and recorded at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A, the record landed on several “Best of” lists including Billboard, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, Vulture and Rolling Stone, who praises, “dazzling…the best evidence yet for the way one man’s voice has become synonymous with the very idea of a musical genre.” Additionally, The New Yorker declares, “Stapleton is the rare country star with both traditional bona fides and broad commercial appeal. He has an outlaw soul and a pop star’s capacity for inescapable hooks,” while GQ proclaims, “In an age rife with division, he’s maybe the only thing Americans all agree on.”

Known for his electric live performances, Stapleton recently returned to NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” as musical guest for the third time and will continue his extensive “All-American Road Show” through this fall. In addition to teaming up with Dua Lipa, Stapleton has new collaborations with Slash (“Oh Well”) and George Strait (“Honky Tonk Hall of Fame”) in addition to recording a version of “I Should Have Known It” for new Tom Petty tribute album. Stapleton and his wife, Morgane, are founders of the Outlaw State of Kind charitable fund, which supports a variety of causes that are close to their heart. Stapleton also recently unveiled his new Traveller Whiskey, created in partnership with Buffalo Trace Distillery’s Master Distiller Harlen Wheatley.

About Dua Lipa:

3x GRAMMY and 7x BRIT Award-winning global pop powerhouse Dua Lipa continues to be one of pop music’s leading forces with the release of her third album, Radical Optimism. Upon release, the album went straight to No. 1 in 12 countries, including the UK where it became the biggest album debut of 2024 in the UK and garnered the largest UK female No. 1 volume since 2021. In the US, the album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart and No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking Dua’s biggest sales week yet. The New York Times named it a Critic’s Pick and hailed it as “an album of nonstop ear candy,” along with Variety, who declared it “a joyous blast of pop savvy,” The New Yorker, who praised, “the instrumentation is a gleaming and impenetrable expanse, and the main attraction is Lipa,” and Vogue, who raved it’s “a summery, self-assured slice of pop brilliance…[and] catchy as hell.”

Dua’s certified platinum sophomore album Future Nostalgia solidified her position as both a critical success and top radio performer. The GRAMMY Award-winning album was the longest running top 10 album by a female artist on the Billboard 200 in 2021 and spawned multiple worldwide hit singles, with “Levitating” earning certified diamond status and the title of Billboard’s No. 1 Hot 100 Song of 2021.

Dua has found superstar status on stage and off, thanks to her many passions outside of music. 2022 saw Dua launch Service95, a global style, culture and society editorial platform that now comprises a weekly newsletter, the Service95 book club and the Dua Lipa: At Your Service podcast, which has been lauded by The Sunday Times and The Guardian, and was named one of the Best Podcasts of 2022 by Spotify. Having graced every major fashion magazine worldwide from Vogue and Elle to W and Dazed, Dua added “designer” to her resume in 2023 when she co-designed Versace's “La Vacanza” collection alongside Donatella Versace herself, which Vogue deemed “the hottest collaboration of the summer.”

Dua’s eponymous 2017 debut album is certified platinum, spawned six platinum tracks, and made her the first female artist in BRIT Awards history to pick up five nominations in a single year. Dua has a total of 10 GRAMMY nominations, with three wins for Best Pop Vocal Album, Best New Artist and Best Dance Recording. Additionally, she earned nominations at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards for her hit song “Dance The Night” from the box office sensation Barbie. Across platforms globally, she has amassed over 42 billion streams and holds the record for being the first female artist to have two albums with over 10 billion streams each on Spotify.

For more information on Chris Stapleton, contact Asha Goodman or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co.,212.741.1000.

For more information on Dua Lipa, please contact Kathy Reilly or
Grant Thompson at Permanent Press Media.

HIGHER TRACK LIST
1. What Am I Gonna Do
2. South Dakota
3. Trust
4. It Takes A Woman
5. The Fire
6. Think I’m In Love With You
7. Loving You On My Mind
8. White Horse
9. Higher
10. The Bottom
11. The Day I Die
12. Crosswind
13. Weight Of Your World
14. Mountains Of My Mind

CHRIS STAPLETON CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
May 22 /// Rapid City, SD /// The Monument^ (SOLD OUT)
May 24 /// Sioux Falls, SD /// Denny Sanford PREMIER Center^
May 25 /// Ames, IA /// Jack Trice Stadium‡
May 31 /// Cleveland, OH /// Blossom Music Center^
June 1 /// Charlotte, NC /// Bank of America Stadium‡
June 2 /// Lexington, KY /// Railbird Festival
June 6 /// Philadelphia, PA /// Freedom Mortgage Pavilion#
June 7 /// Bristow, VA /// Jiffy Lube Live#
June 8 /// East Rutherford, NJ /// MetLife Stadium‡
June 12 /// Kansas City, MO /// T-Mobile Center~
June 13 /// Ridgedale, MO /// Thunder Ridge Nature Arena~
June 15 /// Arlington, TX /// Globe Life Field^^
June 26 /// Los Angeles, CA /// Hollywood Bowl** (SOLD OUT)
June 27 /// Los Angeles, CA /// Hollywood Bowl**
June 29 /// Salt Lake City, UT /// Rice-Eccles Stadium‡
July 11 /// Buffalo, NY /// Darien Lake Amphitheater#
July 12 /// Pittsburgh, PA /// The Pavilion at Star Lake#
July 13 /// Detroit, MI /// Ford Field‡
July 18 /// Toledo, OH /// Huntington Center#
July 19 /// Columbus, OH /// Schottenstein Center#
July 20 /// Chicago, IL /// Soldier Field‡
July 25 /// Nampa, ID /// Ford Idaho Center Arena†† (SOLD OUT)
July 26 /// Portland, OR /// RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater††
July 27 /// Seattle, WA /// T-Mobile Park‡‡
August 1 /// Gilford, NH /// BankNH Pavilion**
August 2 /// Gilford, NH /// BankNH Pavilion** (SOLD OUT)
August 3 /// Gilford, NH /// BankNH Pavilion**
August 9 /// Nashville, TN /// Bridgestone Arena++
August 10 /// Nashville, TN /// Bridgestone Arena++
August 21 /// Birmingham, AL /// The Legacy Arena at the BJCC**
August 22 /// Little Rock, AR /// Simmons Bank Arena**
August 24 /// Houston, TX /// Minute Maid Park##
October 4-6 /// Austin, TX /// Austin City Limits Festival
October 11-13 /// Austin, TX /// Austin City Limits Festival
October 16 /// Manchester, England /// AO Arena~~ (SOLD OUT)
October 17 /// Glasgow, Scotland /// OVO Hydro Arena~~ (SOLD OUT)
October 20 /// Dublin, Ireland /// 3Arena~~ (SOLD OUT)
October 22 /// Birmingham, England /// Utilita Arena~~ (SOLD OUT)
October 23 /// London, England /// The O2~~ (SOLD OUT)
December 7 /// Las Vegas, NV /// Allegiant Stadium‡
February 25, 2025 /// Melbourne, Australia /// Rod Laver Arena%
February 26, 2025 /// Melbourne, Australia /// Rod Laver Arena%
February 28, 2025 /// Brisbane, Australia /// Brisbane
Entertainment Centre%
March 1, 2025 /// Brisbane, Australia /// Brisbane
Entertainment Centre%
March 4, 2025 /// Sydney, Australia /// Qudos Bank Arena%
March 5, 2025 /// Sydney, Australia /// Qudos Bank Arena%
March 7, 2025 /// Auckland, New Zealand /// Spark Arena%
March 8, 2025 /// Auckland, New Zealand /// Spark Arena%

‡with George Strait and special guest Little Big Town
+with special guests Grace Potter and Nikki Lane
^with special guests Marcus King and The War and Treaty
#with special guests Marcus King and Nikki Lane
~with special guests Marcus King and Allen Stone
**with special guests Grace Potter and Allen Stone
††with special guests Nikki Lane and Allen Stone
‡‡with special guests Willie Nelson and Family and Sheryl Crow
++with special guests Marty Stuart and Nikki Lane
^^with special guests Tedeschi Trucks Band and Marcus King
##with special guests Miranda Lambert and Grace Potter
~~with special guest Mary Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
%with special guest Marcus King