Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line are not only singers, they are also song writers. The duo loves it when other artists record songs they have written.

Tyler and Brian have written many of their own hit songs. However, they have had hits they wrote recorded by other artists like Jason Aldean‘s “Burnin’ It Down” and “You Make It Easy” as well as Cole Swindell‘s “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight,” just to name a few. The songwriter in them gets excited when they hear those songs sung by another artist.

“There’s just something special about hearing another artist sing a song that we were a part of writing,” Tyler admits, “and somehow just kind of putting their stamp on it and saying I believe in this song. That just means a lot to us as songwriters.”

That doesn’t mean they don’t get satisfaction from having a hit song that they both wrote and recorded. It is just something different seeing another artist having success with a song they wrote.

“Whether it’s an FGL song or, probably even more exciting, someone else singing one of our songs, it’s always rewarding,” Tyler states. “It never gets old and it’s pretty amazing.”

Tyler and Brian teamed with Michael Hardy and Mark Holman to write their current single titled “Simple.” The song has reached the top five this week on the country radio airplay singles charts. It could become the duo’s next chart topper as singer-songwriters in the coming weeks.

Here’s to more success for Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley as both singers and songwriters in the future.

Listen for “Simple” by Florida Georgia Line as well as the songs by Jason Aldean and Cole Swindell that Tyler and Brian wrote on Bloomington-Normal’s #1 Country, B104.

By: Buck Stevens