Thomas Rhett recruited country powerhouse performers Reba McEntire, Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott, Chris Tomlin and Keith Urban to "Be a Light" for their timely Billboard Hot 100 hit, which landed at No.
71 (dated April 18). The song earned Tomlin and Scott their career-first Hot 100 hits, and for McEntire, "Light" helped the legend find her way back onto the all-genre tally after 10 years.
Although the lyrics seem to point toward the current unsettling times, Rhett discussed why he put out the song a year after he wrote it in a recent Instagram Live. "I wrote this song last year.
This song was really just about being a light in a dark place; being an encouragement to people," he said last month. "We weren’t supposed to release this now,