Old Dominion was initially formed to showcase the songs that its individual band members had written. Matthew Ramsey co-wrote "
Chainsaw" for
The Band Perry,
Trevor Rosen co-wrote
Kelsea Ballerini's "
I Hate Love Songs",
Blake Shelton's "
Sangria",
William Michael Morgan's "
I Met A Girl",
Chris Young's "
Neon", and The Band Perry's "
Better Dig Two", Two songs written for the band by Ramsey and Rosen, "
Wake Up Lovin' You" and "
Say You Do", were covered by
Craig Morgan and
Dierks Bentley respectively and became hits. The success of the two songs led to the band self-releasing the
extended play It Was Always Yours in 2012. Their song "Dirt on a Road" was their first song as a band which received significant airplay, The band opened for
Alabama,
Jake Owen, and
Chase Rice. The EP debuted on the Top Country Albums chart at No. 33 with 1,000 copies sold. The lead single from the EP was "
Shut Me Up", the music video features American country music singer and songwriter
Whitney Duncan. A song from the EP "
Break Up with Him" first received exposure on the satellite
Sirius XM Radio's "
The Highway" channel in late 2014 which boosted its popularity, and the song was then released as the second single to radio on January 20, 2015. They signed a record deal with
RCA Nashville in late February 2015. The band also opened for Kenny Chesney on his
Big Revival Tour. Shortly before the album's release, "
Break Up with Him" reached No. 1 on
Country Airplay. The album's second single, "
Snapback" released to country radio on January 11, 2016. It was number 2 on the Country Airplay in June 2016.
2017–present: Happy Endings, Old Dominion, Time, Tequila & Therapy, Memory Lane and Odies But Goodies On March 10, 2017, Old Dominion released "
No Such Thing as a Broken Heart", the lead single to their second RCA album, which went to number one on the Country Airplay Charts. The album's name,
Happy Endings, was announced in June, and the album was released on August 25, 2017. "Written in the Sand" was the album's second single, and "Hotel Key" its third. Both "Make It Sweet" and "
One Man Band" appear on the band's third album,
Old Dominion, released in October 2019, with the latter becoming their highest-peaking
Billboard Hot 100 hit to date. However, the album's third single "
Some People Do" became their first single since their commercial breakthrough to fail to chart the Billboard Hot 100, as well as their first single to peak outside the top twenty of Billboard's Country Airplay chart. For the second single, the band switched to
Arista Nashville which is an imprint of Sony Nashville. They released a single titled "
Memory Lane" in early 2023. After Arista Nashville closed in March 2023, the band transferred again to
Columbia Records Nashville. On June 23, 2023, the band released their fourth EP, titled
Memory Lane. The eight–track EP includes 2 singles, "Memory Lane" and "I Should Have Married You". On October 6, 2023, they released an 18–track full album with the same
Memory Lane title. The band released their sixth album,
Odies But Goodies, on September 6, 2024. The thirty-one track project includes a cover of Johnny Lee's
"Lookin' For Love", a song which originally appeared as part of the soundtrack to the film,
Urban Cowboy, as well as the single, "Coming Home." They released their sixth album,
Barbara, on August 22, 2025. ==Discography==