{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{distinguish|Chapter One (Viking Skull EP)}} {{Infobox album| | name = Chapter 1 | type = ep | artist = Kane Brown | cover = KB_Chapter_1_EP.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2016|3|18}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Chapter 1 - EP by Kane Brown on iTunes|url=https://music.apple.com/ca/album/chapter-1-ep/1089613206|website=ITunes|access-date=January 15, 2016}}</ref> | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Country pop | length = 14:44 | label = RCA Nashville | producer = Matthew McVaney | prev_title = Closer | prev_year = 2015 | next_title = Kane Brown | next_year = 2016 | misc = {{Singles | name = Chapter 1 | type = ep | single1 = Used to Love You Sober | single1date = October 21, 2015 }} }} '''''Chapter 1''''' is the second extended play (EP) by American country music singer Kane Brown who is signed with Sony Music Nashville in early 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sonymusicnashville.com/kane-brown-to-release-ep-chapter-1-on-march-18/ |title=Kane Brown to Release EP Chapter 1 on March 18 |work=Sony Music Nashville |access-date=2016-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220163424/https://www.sonymusicnashville.com/kane-brown-to-release-ep-chapter-1-on-march-18/ |archive-date=2016-12-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The five-song EP was released on March 18, 2016, as his first EP with the Sony label<ref>[http://theboot.com/kane-brown-chapter-1-ep/ TheBoot.com: Kane Brown Announces Debut EP, 'Chapter 1']</ref> although he had an earlier independently released EP on his own label titled ''Closer''. ''Chapter 1'' is considered a prelude to his debut studio album which was released later in 2016.
Brown co-wrote four of the five tracks on the EP with co-writers including Chris Young, Corey Crowder and Josh Hoge. The EP's lead single, "Used to Love You Sober" is Brown's first official single, although he had released "Don't Go City on Me" single independently. Both the EP and the single "Used to Love You Sober" were great commercial successes.
==Reception== The album debuted at number nine on the US ''Billboard'' 200, and number three on the Top Country Albums chart, selling 23,000 copies in the first week.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/cole-swindell-you-should-be-here-hot-country-songs/ |title=Cole Swindell's 'You Should Be Here' Tops Two Country Charts |date=March 29, 2016 |first= Jim |last=Asker|magazine=Billboard }}</ref> The album has sold 89,800 copies in the United States as of September 2017.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://roughstock.com/news/2017/09/42249-top-10-country-albums-sales-chart-september-5-2017 |title=Top 10 Country Albums Sales Chart: September 5, 2017 |first= Matt |last= Bjorke |date=September 6, 2017 |work=Roughstock }}</ref>
==Track listing== {{track listing | title1 = Wide Open | writer1 = {{hlist|Kane Brown|Corey Crowder|Justin Lantz}} | length1 = 3:05 | title2 = Used to Love You Sober | writer2 = {{hlist|Brown|Josh Hoge|Matthew McVaney}} | length2 = 3:01 | title3 = Last Minute Late Night | writer3 = {{hlist|Ben Caver|Crowder|Matt McGinn}} | length3 = 2:54 | title4 = Excuses | writer4 = {{hlist|Brown|Hoge|McVaney}} | length4 = 3:01 | title5 = There Goes My Everything | writer5 = {{hlist|Brown|Hoge|McVaney|Chris Young}} | length5 = 2:43 }}
==Personnel== Adapted from AllMusic<ref>{{cite web|title=Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/chapter-1-mw0002933769/credits|website=AllMusic|accessdate=October 29, 2020}}</ref>
*Kane Brown - lead vocals *Corey Crowder - keyboards, programming, background vocals *Matthew McVaney - banjo, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, piano, programming, six-string banjo, string instrument, background vocals *Danny Rader - bouzouki, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano *F. Reid Shippen - percussion, programming
==Charts== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}}
===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! Chart (2016) ! Peak<br>position |- {{album chart|BillboardCanada|28|artist=Kane Brown|rowheader=true}} |- {{album chart|Billboard200|9|artist=Kane Brown|rowheader=true}} |- {{album chart|BillboardCountry|3|artist=Kane Brown|rowheader=true}} |- |} {{col-2}}
===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! Chart (2016) ! Position |- ! scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2016/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 2016|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=July 26, 2020}}</ref> | 43 |} {{col-end}}
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