Peak
26
Weeks
20
Score
2,227
Chart Year
2015
Two music videos were produced for the song. The first music video, directed by Brad Belanger and Steven Worster, premiered in August 2014. A second music video, directed by Justin Key and Steven Worster, premiered in June 2015.[
Sam Hunt penned this with songwriter Zach Crowell and Jerry Flowers, who plays bass in Keith Urban's band. Despite its title, the song is actually more about an intimate night for two. "We didn't want to write a party song. We wanted to try to write it from a different angle, and that's when the girl came into play, and the homebody thing, I guess, came in after that," said Hunt. "With a song called 'House Party,' you'd expect it to be more about a big party, not as much about a relationship, so we tried to put a little bit of a unique twist on it." Jerry Flowers told Taste of Country about the writing of this song. "The first day we kinda fooled around with it, we had a little bit of a different groove," he recalled. "I had a different guitar riff, a little bit more uptempo kinda straight-ahead kinda riff, and what we do, me and his producer, Zach [Crowell], we'll start building a groove and building a track, and then he'll just start feeling ideas." Hunt then shaped those musical ideas with some improvised lyrics. "He's amazing. He's one of the best songwriters I've ever worked with," Flowers noted. "He'll just walk into the vocal booth and start spitting out ideas quickly, and then we start weeding through them. I think that was the first day, he hit upon that 'House Party' idea, and then the next time we got together to work on it again, we changed the groove, and I came up with that riff that's Jackson 5-ish, and that's when it just really started coming together." This was Sam Hunt's third country #1 following "Leave the Night On" and "Take Your Time." The song came from an idea that Hunt had put in his phone one day. He recalled: "(Jerry Flowers) was playing a groove on either the guitar or the bass – he plays bass obviously with Keith Urban, but he's also a great guitar player. He came up with this fun riff, and I was going through my phone and looking at those ideas and saw that little note that I had put in my phone notes and we just started talking about it and writing it." "It came out pretty easy compared to how a lot of the other songs on the album that took a lot more time to dig into and write, but it's just a fun idea and a fun concept, and I think that's why it was so easy and fun to write." This song launched Hunt's career, which in an odd twist, effectively ended his house party days. "I haven't really been to many house parties since I put out the record," he told Entertainment Weekly. More songs from Sam Hunt
You're on the couch, blowin' up my phone You don't wanna come out, but you don't wanna be alone It don't take but two to have a little soiree If you're in the mood, sit tight right where you are, babe 'Cause I'll be at your door in ten minutes Whatever you got on, girl, stay in it You ain't gotta leave the house to have a good time I'ma bring the good time home to you We'll have a house party, we don't need nobody Turn your TV off, break that boombox out We'll wake up all the neighbors 'til the whole block hates us And the cops show up and try to shut us down If you're gonna be a homebody We're gonna have a house party If you wanna be a homebody We're gonna have a house party Throw a neon t-shirt over the lamp shade I'll take the furniture, slide it out of the way Shakin' the floor, rattlin' the roof We'll go to town like they're in your livin' room Let's have a house party, we don't need nobody Turn your TV off, break that boombox out We'll wake up all the neighbors 'til the whole block hates us And the cops show up and try to shut us down If you're gonna be a homebody We're gonna have a house party If you wanna be a homebody We're gonna have a house party So I'll be at your door in ten minutes Whatever you got on, baby, stay in it You ain't gotta leave the house to have a good time I'ma bring the good time home to you We'll have a house party, we don't need nobody Turn your TV off, break that boombox out We'll wake up all the neighbors 'til the whole block hates us And the cops show up and try to shut us down If you're gonna be a homebody We're gonna have a house party If you wanna be a homebody We're gonna have a house party
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jun 20, 2015 | 85 | 41 |
| 2 | Jun 27, 2015 | 65 | 61 |
| 3 | Jul 4, 2015 | 52 | 74 |
| 4 | Jul 11, 2015 | 48 | 78 |
| 5 | Jul 18, 2015 | 45 | 81 |
| 6 | Jul 25, 2015 | 41 | 85 |
| 7 | Aug 1, 2015 | 39 | 87 |
| 8 | Aug 8, 2015 | 39 | 87 |
| 9 | Aug 15, 2015 | 32 | 94 |
| 10 | Aug 22, 2015 | 31 | 95 |
| 11 | Aug 29, 2015 | 28 | 98 |
| 12 | Sep 5, 2015 | 26 | 100 |
| 13 | Sep 12, 2015 | 28 | 98 |
| 14 | Sep 19, 2015 | 33 | 93 |
| 15 | Sep 26, 2015 | 35 | 91 |
| 16 | Oct 3, 2015 | 44 | 82 |
| 17 | Oct 10, 2015 | 51 | 75 |
| 18 | Oct 17, 2015 | 55 | 71 |
| 19 | Oct 24, 2015 | 63 | 63 |
| 20 | Oct 31, 2015 | 68 | 58 |