Chris Young has been on one heck of a roll, with three back-to-back number-one singles. But when it came to making the music for his new album, NEON — releasing July 12th — Chris wasn’t about to rest on his laurels. Chris says that he was ready to stretch his vocal talents, pushing himself on songs like his current smash, “Tomorrow.” And though he was up for the challenge, Chris laughs that during the songwriting, he was getting a little mad…at himself! (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

  Chris Young talks about his upcoming album, NEON, and the smash first single, “Tomorrow.” (:58)
“I think one of the things that makes ‘Tomorrow’ sound a little bit different than some of the other singles that I’ve put out is this is probably the most vocally challenging thing that I’ve sung. And there’s a lot of that on this record. I really did a lot of stuff to kind of stretch my range, and…which I think every singer does. You know, you’re always tryin’ to improve on what you did last time and do somethin’ that’s a little bit different. But I…you know, the sound’s the same. I think we pretty much adhered to what my sound is. I don’t think anybody’s gonna pick up this record and go, ‘Well, this sounds completely different than the last one.’ But there are little things that we did differently on this record, and I think that’s what makes a new record exciting for the fans. They want to go see what you did and what songs are on there and kind of what I wrote and songs that I found. And I really do think that there was a couple times when we were writin’ songs for this record — ‘Tomorrow’ bein’ one of ’em — where I was like, ‘Man, I just hate myself. I’m just makin’ this like really difficult to sing,’ (laughs) but it’s exciting. I mean, I love gettin’ out there and bein’ able to belt out a song like this.”