"Your Place" is song by American country music artist Ashley Cooke. It was released on December 11, 2023 as the lead single from her second studio album Shot in the Dark. Cooke co-wrote the song with Jordan Minton and Mark Trussell and it was produced by Jimmy Robbins. Cooke was the recipient of iHeartRadio's On the Verge program.
Background "Your Place" is a breakup song, which Cooke – in an interview with Country Now magazine, is "a stand against cheating exes everywhere" with what was described an "empowering breakup anthem" that was "riddled with confidence." Fans caught on to the song when Cooke began sharing the song through social media platforms, and later released it on her debut album, Shot In the Dark.O'Connell, Madeleine, "Ashley Cooke Breaks Down the Story Of 'Your Place'," Country Now, January 29, 2024. Accessed 01-31-2024.
Cooke recalled her experiences with a past boyfriend whom she had learned had cheated on her. Despite breaking off the relationship and making it clear she was moving on, he kept pestering her about maybe getting back together. Country music journalist Tom Roland noted that Cooke had the hook “It ain’t your place” logged into the “note graveyard” (as she calls it) on her phone, "and the idea lined up perfectly with the boundary-drawing abilities that she was developing." Cooke told Roland: "You basically kind of regain your power ... by saying, 'Hey, you know, you don’t get to know those things anymore. You’re the reason this thing broke. You should already know that this isn’t your place anymore.'"Roland, Tom, "Ashley Cooke Dumps a Cheater, and Stakes Out Her Own Artistic Turf, With ‘Your Place’," Billboard, December 21, 2023. Accessed 01-31-2024.
Content The song follows along those lines of Cooke's experience with her past boyfriend. Roland, in his interview with Cooke, noted the song's imagery, with furniture used both metaphorically and literally to set up the first verse of how a young woman who was cheated on is moving on, and the second verse centered on behaviors, before circling back to metaphoric furniture with the lyric "You made your bed, and I ain't sleeping in it."
Charts
Weekly charts + Weekly chart performance for "Your Place" Chart (2023–2024) Peakposition Australia Country Hot 50 (The Music) 5 Canada Country (Billboard) 3 UK Country Airplay (Radiomonitor) 1 US Billboard Hot 100 80 US Country Airplay (Billboard) 2 US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) 21
Year-end charts + 2024 year-end chart performance for "Your Place" Chart (2024) Position US Country Airplay (Billboard) 23 US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) 61
Certifications
References