"Thought It Was Love" by Ty Myers

What the song is

“Thought It Was Love” is a Gold-certified album track rather than Myers’ biggest charting single. Its importance is easier to understand through its writing context: it belongs to a debut assembled from songs Myers wrote during his formative teenage years.

It sits on The Select, the debut album Ty Myers released January 24, 2025 on Columbia Records and RECORDS Nashville. That album contains 16 tracks, all but two carrying his writing credit. He told Rolling Stone that he started writing songs at age 8, and that several tracks on The Select were written around age 12. A song that sounds like a young adult’s confession may be the work of a much younger writer.

The Gold certification

The track is RIAA Gold-certified. In the US that means it has been certified for 500,000 units, counted as a combination of sales and streams. His breakout single “Ends of the Earth” has since been upgraded to Platinum. Certifications move, so check the RIAA database directly if current status matters for your purposes. The songs page keeps a running record of certifications across his catalog.

Its place on The Select

The Select is the album that brought him mainstream attention. “Ends of the Earth” was the commercial lead, reaching 20 on Hot Country Songs and 11 on Country Airplay. “Thought It Was Love” fills a different role on the record: a reflective breakup song whose Gold certification shows that its reach extended beyond the album’s radio lead.

The album as a whole reached 12 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and is RIAA Gold as a project. It was his first full-length release, following the Ends of the Earth EP in October 2024.

Why it resonates

He wrote most of The Select during years when a lot was changing. He told Rolling Stone the album “represents a lot of changing during very formative years” rather than a single artistic idea. “Thought It Was Love” is one of the tracks that carries that weight.

The song’s central idea has a plain enough reading: the gap between what a feeling looks like in the moment and what it looks like afterward. That reading fits the title and the breakup perspective without pretending to be a statement from Myers about one specific real-life relationship.

Lyrics and sheet music

Lyrics are licensed content and this page does not reproduce them. You can read them on Genius or your preferred streaming platform. If you are looking for chords or piano sheet music, a search for the title on tabs or sheet music sites will get you there faster than anything this page can offer.

Where to find the song

“Thought It Was Love” is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube. It streams as part of The Select, which is his full debut record.

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For more on how this track fits into his overall catalog, see the complete songs page. For background on the album and the songwriter, see the biography page.