Dan + Shay chatted with Billboard’s Tetris Kelly on the red carpet at the 2019 American Music Awards on Sunday (Nov. 24), discussing their chart success and working with Justin Bieber.
Asked how it feels to have the highest-charting non-holiday country song in the Streaming Songs chart’s history for their Justin Bieber collaboration “10,000 Hours,” Dan Smyers tells Billboard that he and Shay Mooney are proud to be a part of the country music community and that watching their songs climb up the charts is “surreal.”
“We're those nerds who always refresh and we're like, ‘Oh my gosh, we jumped two spots today,’” he says. “We do that because we appreciate it, we appreciate all the people that put hard work into this and make it happen for us. We're thankful, man, we try not to get too caught up in it, but it is really cool whenever the songs are going up the chart. It's a special feeling.”
