Chad Brownlee
Canadian musician and ice hockey player
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::summary Canadian musician and ice hockey player ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox musical artist"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Chad Brownlee |
| image | Chad_Brownlee.jpg |
| caption | Brownlee in 2015 |
| birth_date | |
| origin | Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada |
| instrument | Guitar |
| genre | |
| occupation | Singer, songwriter, actor |
| years_active | 2003–present |
| label | Universal Music Canada • MDM Recordings |
| website | |
| :: |
| name = Chad Brownlee | image = Chad_Brownlee.jpg | caption = Brownlee in 2015 | image_size = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = | origin = Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada | instrument = Guitar | genre = | occupation = Singer, songwriter, actor | years_active = 2003–present | label = Universal Music Canada • MDM Recordings | associated_acts = | website =
Chad Brownlee (born July 12, 1984) is a Canadian country music artist, songwriter, actor, and former ice hockey defenceman. He has one #1 Canada Country hit with "Forever's Gotta Start Somewhere".
Sports career
| name = Ice Hockey | image = | image_size = 230px | position = Defenceman | shoots = Right | played_for = Idaho Steelheads | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 2 | weight_lb = 200 | birth_date = | birth_place = | ntl_team = | draft = 190th overall | draft_team = Vancouver Canucks | draft_year = 2003 | career_start = 2007 | career_end = 2008
Brownlee was a draft pick for the Vancouver Canucks in 2003, going in the sixth round No. 190th overall. After four years of playing for the NCAA's Minnesota State Mavericks (located in Mankato, Minn.), Brownlee made his professional debut with the ECHL's Idaho Steelheads playing a lone season with the club in the 2007–08 season before ending his playing career.
Music career
Following a series of injuries, he turned his attention to music the following year. His first single, "The Best That I Can (Superhero)", was released in November 2009. Brownlee's self-titled debut album, produced by Mitch Merrett, was released in August 2010 via MDM Recordings. He followed it up with Love Me or Leave Me in 2012. Brownlee was nominated for a Juno Award for Country Album of the Year on February 19, 2013. The awards took place on April 21 in Regina, Saskatchewan. Brownlee's third album, The Fighters, was released on June 3, 2014.
Brownlee landed his first No. 1 hit with "Forever's Gotta Start Somewhere" in April 2019. It was included on the EP Back in the Game, which was released on June 21, 2019, via Universal Music Canada. Brownlee extended that to become his fourth album on January 10, 2020. A July 2020 Nielsen Music study found Brownlee to be the eighth-highest played Canadian artist on domestic radio in the first half of 2020, ahead of Brett Kissel and JP Saxe, and behind Dallas Smith and Drake.
In 2023, Brownlee ended a prolonged hiatus and released the single "The Country Kind".
Acting career
Brownlee's first role as an actor came in 2010 film Tooth Fairy as an unnamed hockey player with no lines. He appeared in the 2021 film Range Roads as Bruce, the ex-boyfriend of the main character Frankie.
Discography
Albums
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| Title | Details | Chad Brownlee | Love Me or Leave Me | The Fighters | Back in the Game | Reason to Love |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Extended plays
::data[format=table] | Title | Details | Peak positions | CAN | Hearts on Fire | |---|---|---|---|---| | | 48 | | | | ::
Singles
::data[format=table] | Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | CAN | CAN Country | "The Best That I Can (Superhero)" | "Hope" | "Hood of My Car" | "Day After You" | "Carried Away" | "Love Me or Leave Me" | "Smoke in the Rain" | "Listen" | "Crash" | "Where the Party At?" | "Fallin' Over You" | "Just Because" | "When the Lights Go Down" | "Thinking Out Loud" | "Hearts on Fire" | "I Hate You for It" | "Somethin' We Shouldn't Do" | "Might As Well Be Me" | "Out of the Blue" | "Dear Drunk Me" | "Forever's Gotta Start Somewhere" | "The Way You Roll" | "Money On You" | "The Country Kind" | "Reason to Love" | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2009 | — | 20 | | Chad Brownlee | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2010 | — | 47 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 96 | 14 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | 9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2011 | — | 19 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | 8 | | Love Me or Leave Me | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2012 | 74 | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 85 | 9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2013 | 91 | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 100 | 13 | | The Fighters | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2014 | 66 | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 98 | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 81 | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2015 | — | 34 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | 8 | | Hearts on Fire | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2016 | — | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2017 | — | 14 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | 17 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2018 | 90 | 3 | | Back in the Game | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2019 | 89 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | — | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2020 | 96 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2023 | — | — | | align="left" rowspan="2" | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2025 | — | 46 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "—" denotes releases that did not chart | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ::
Other charted songs
::data[format=table] | Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | CAN Country | "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2012 | 37 | | | | | ::
Music videos
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| Year | Video | Director | "Hope" | "Day After You" | "Carried Away" | "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" | "Listen" | "Crash" | "Where the Party At?" | "Fallin' Over You" | "We Don't Walk This Road Alone" | "Just Because" | "When the Lights Go Down" | "Matches" | "Hearts on Fire" | "I Hate You for It" | "Somethin' We Shouldn't Do" | "Might As Well Be Me" | "Out of the Blue" | "Dear Drunk Me" | "Forever's Gotta Start Somewhere" | "The Way You Roll" |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | CMT | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Antonio Hrynchuk | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Carolyne Stossel | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Carolyne Stossel | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Joey Boukadakis | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Joel Stewart | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Stephano Barberis | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Ben Knechtel | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards and nominations
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| Year | Association | Category | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | British Columbia Country Music Association | Male Vocalist of the Year | ||
| Songwriter of the Year – "Hood of My Car" (with Mitch Merrett, Kelly Archer) | ||||
| Canadian Country Music Association | Rising Star | |||
| 2011 | British Columbia Country Music Association | Album of the Year – Chad Brownlee | ||
| Entertainer of the Year | ||||
| Fans Choice Award | ||||
| Male Vocalist of the Year | ||||
| Single of the Year – "The Day After You" | ||||
| Video of the Year – "Carried Away" | ||||
| Canadian Country Music Association | Rising Star | |||
| 2012 | Male Artist of the Year | |||
| Interactive Artist of the Year | ||||
| British Columbia Country Music Association | Entertainer of the Year | |||
| Album of the Year – Love Me or Leave Me | ||||
| Single of the Year – "Love Me or Leave Me" | ||||
| Fans Choice Award | ||||
| Male Vocalist of the Year | ||||
| Songwriter of the Year – "Love Me or Leave Me" (with Mitch Merrett, Ben Glover) | ||||
| Video of the Year – "Listen" | ||||
| 2013 | Juno Awards of 2013 | Country Album of the Year – Love Me or Leave Me | ||
| Canadian Country Music Association | Male Artist of the Year | |||
| 2014 | British Columbia Country Music Association | Album of the Year – The Fighters | ||
| Entertainer of the Year | ||||
| Fans Choice Award | ||||
| Male Vocalist of the Year | ||||
| Single of the Year – "Fallin' Over You" | ||||
| Songwriter of the Year – "Just Because" (with Mitch Merrett, Brian White & Phil Barton) | ||||
| Video of the Year – "Fallin' Over You" | ||||
| Humanitarian of the Year | ||||
| 2015 | British Columbia Country Music Association | Entertainer of the Year | ||
| Fans Choice Award | ||||
| Male Vocalist of the Year | ||||
| Single of the Year – "When The Lights Go Down" | ||||
| Songwriter of the Year – "When The Lights Go Down" (with Mitch Merrett, Ben Glover) | ||||
| Songwriter of the Year – "Leave Your Lights On" (with Jeff Johnson & Phil Puxley) | ||||
| Video of the Year – "When The Lights Go Down" | ||||
| Humanitarian of the Year | ||||
| 2016 | Canadian Country Music Association | Album of the Year – Hearts on Fire | ||
| CMT Video of the Year – "Hearts on Fire" | ||||
| British Columbia Country Music Association | Album of the Year – Hearts on Fire | |||
| Male Vocalist of the Year | ||||
| Entertainer of the Year | ||||
| Fans Choice Award | ||||
| Single of the Year – "I Hate You For It" | ||||
| Songwriter of the Year | ||||
| 2017 | Juno Awards | Country Album of the Year – Hearts on Fire | ||
| Canadian Country Music Association | Fans' Choice Award | |||
| Male Artist of the Year | ||||
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Ice hockey career statistics
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| Regular season | Playoffs | Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | WCHA totals | 134 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 201 | — | — | — | — | — |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001–02 | Vernon Vipers | BCHL | 55 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 62 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||
| 2002–03 | Vernon Vipers | BCHL | 58 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 63 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||
| 2003–04 | Minnesota State University, Mankato | WCHA | 35 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||
| 2004–05 | Minnesota State University, Mankato | WCHA | 36 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 60 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||
| 2005–06 | Minnesota State University, Mankato | WCHA | 29 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||
| 2006–07 | Minnesota State University, Mankato | WCHA | 34 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 50 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||
| 2007–08 | Idaho Steelheads | ECHL | 35 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||
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References
References
- Kennedy, Ryan. "The Straight Edge: When pro hockey is no longer the dream". [[The Hockey News]].
- "Chad Brownlee Biography".
- (February 19, 2013). "JUNO nominees include The Sheepdogs, Justin Bieber". [[CKOM]].
- "Chad Brownlee to release The Fighters June 3". [[Universal Music]].
- "''Back in the Game'' – Chad Brownlee". [[AllMusic]].
- (January 10, 2020). "CHAD BROWNLEE RELEASES DELUXE ALBUM, BACK IN THE GAME, OUT NOW". [[Universal Music Canada]].
- Bliss, Karen. (13 July 2020). "The Weeknd Tops Nielsen Music/MRC Data Midyear Charts Across Canada".
- Melanson, Jenna. (September 22, 2023). "CHAD BROWNLEE UNVEILS NEW SINGLE, "THE COUNTRY KIND" (INTERVIEW)".
- (March 31, 2021). "Exclusive Interview: Pop-Culturalist Chats with Range Roads' Chad Brownlee". Pop-Culturalist.
- "Chad Brownlee Chart History (Canadian Albums)".
- "Chad Brownlee Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)".
- "British Columbia Country Music Association – Awards Past Winners".
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- (September 21, 2016). "The 2016 BCCMA Final Ballot Nominees !".
- (April 2, 2017). "Canada's 2017 Juno Awards Winners Revealed!".
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