What You See Is What You Get (Luke Combs album)

Combs said his intention with new track "1, 2 Many" was to "write a song that I felt like my '90s country music heroes would be proud of". It marks his second collaboration with Brooks & Dunn, with his first being a cover of their debut single "Brand New Man" on their album Reboot.^[8]

"Six Feet Apart", a standalone song released on May 1, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was later added to the end of the album's digital and streaming editions.^[9][10]

On August 20, Combs announced that the album will be re-released as a deluxe album titled What You See Ain't Always What You Get on October 23, 2020, featuring "Six Feet Apart", as well as five new songs. The first of the new songs "Without You" was released as a promotional single on September 18.^[11]

What You See Is What You Get debuted atop the US Billboard 200 on the chart dated November 23, 2019, earning 172,000 album-equivalent units, including 109,000 pure album sales. In addition to becoming Combs' first US number-one album, it opened with the "largest week for a country album" since 2018, and became the biggest week in terms of streams for a country album on record.^[12] The album has sold 350,000 copies in the United States as of March 2020,^[13] with 5,000,000 units consumed in total.^[14] After its reissue, on the chart dated November 7, 2020, the album returned to the top spot from number 21, selling 109,000 album-equivalent units. In the same week, the album broke the record for the most streams for a country record at 102.26 million streams. At 11 months and 15 days, What You See Is What You Get also became the first album since Bon Jovi's This House Is Not for Sale to return to number one after an extended wait.^[15] It was among the top 10 albums of 2020, with 1.475 million equivalent album unit consumed (184,000 in pure sales) that year.^[16]

The album also topped the ARIA Albums Chart in Australia, becoming Combs's first number-one album there.^[17]

From What You See Is What You Get liner notes.^[18]

Musicians

• Luke Combs – lead and background vocals
• Brooks & Dunn – vocals on "1, 2 Many"
• Eric Church – vocals on "Does to Me"
• Dave Cohen – piano, organ, synthesizer
• Jon Conley – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo
• Doug Frasure – drums
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
• Wil Houchens – piano, organ, synthesizer
• Ben Jordan – bass guitar
• Buddy Leach – saxophone
• Tim Marks – bass guitar
• Carl Miner – acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin
• Scott Moffatt – background vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, synthesizer, percussion, glockenspiel, clapping, programming
• Gary Morse – pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
• Sol Philcox-Littlefield – electric guitar, slide guitar
• Jerry Roe – drums
• Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
• Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar, mandolin

Technical

• Luke Armentrout – mastering assistant
• Nick Autry – engineering of Brooks & Dunn's vocals on "1, 2 Many"
• Taylor Chadwick – mastering assistant
• Jim Cooley – mixing (1–5, 7, 8–10, 12, 13, 15, 16)
• Andrew Darby – mastering assistant
• Dan Davis – engineering assistant
• Bobbi Giel – mastering assistant
• Mike Gillies – digital editing
• Alex Gilson – engineering
• Rob Hendon – cover artist
• Travis Humbert – session cleanup
• Mike Kyle – engineering of Brooks & Dunn's vocals on "1, 2 Many"
• Kam Luchterhand – engineering assistant
• Andrew Mendelson – mastering
• Scott Moffatt – producer; mixing (6, 7, 14, 16, 17)
• Seth Morton – engineering assistant
• Jason Mott – engineering assistant
• Allen Parker – engineering of Eric Church's vocals on "Does to Me"
• Megan Peterson – mastering assistant
• Joey Stanca – engineering assistant
• Preston White – engineering assistant