Lauren Daigle's "You Say" spent 35 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Christian Songs chart, more than any solo artist in the chart's history, and won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. But the song almost didn't happen the way fans know it.
Daigle wrote "You Say" while working on her second album, Look Up Child, following the massive success of her platinum debut, How Can It Be. She has said she felt overwhelmed by the gap between who she was before fame and who the industry now expected her to be, describing an internal tug-of-war over her own identity.
Working with songwriters Jason Ingram and Paul Mabury, Daigle turned that struggle into lyrics built around a simple idea: what God says about a person matters more than self-doubt or outside expectations. She has said the song became a daily reminder she needed to hear herself, describing it as something she repeated to herself before every show.
"You Say" released in July 2018 as the lead single from Look Up Child and quickly crossed over from Christian radio to mainstream success, becoming Daigle's first single on the Billboard Hot 100. It has since been performed on Good Morning America, The Ellen Show, and at the Grammy Awards, and continues to resonate with listeners navigating their own questions of worth and identity - Christian and non-Christian alike.
For an artist who once wondered where she fit, "You Say" became the answer millions of others needed to hear too.
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