Ty Myers, "Ends of the Earth": What It Means and What It Did

The short answer

Ty Myers wrote “Ends of the Earth” by himself, released it on October 18, 2024, and sent it to country radio on April 28, 2025. It is track 1 of his debut album The Select. It reached 72 on the Billboard Hot 100, 20 on Hot Country Songs and 11 on Country Airplay, and it is certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Those are his best numbers anywhere. It is the only song of his to enter the Hot 100, and the first to chart on either country list.

The song is about offering someone total devotion before they have decided whether they want it. He has described it as being “so in love and vulnerable that you’re able to admit that no matter what happens, you’re always gonna be her man.” It does not end with an answer.

Two things in the public record about this song are wrong, and one of them was wrong on this site until today. Both are covered below.

What the song is about

He started with the title and worked backward, which is unusual and explains a lot about how the song is built.

“I knew I wanted to write kind of a soul song,” he told Billboard. The “boom, boom, boom” intro came first, then the title, then the rest. He wrote it alone in roughly an hour, late at night in his bedroom, on an electric guitar plugged into a small practice amp. His reason for the amp is the best line in the whole record. “That volume knob never stares at you like it does at 2 a.m.”

The shape of the song is a slow reversal. It opens on a scene, moves to frustration, then arrives at the promise. He is admiring her at the start. By the pre-chorus he is tired of being pulled close and pushed away. By the chorus he is offering to follow her anyway. The last verse leaves his heart “broken on the floor,” and then he repeats the offer. Nothing gets resolved. She never answers.

Myers says the situation was mostly real. He called it “that cat-and-mouse game where you’re running after somebody,” and said he was genuinely unsure where he stood with the girl at the time. He was 17.

The joke inside the title

The title contains a contradiction he put there deliberately, and he is happy to explain it.

“If you’re going to the ends of the Earth, that implies that there’s an end to the Earth, which, I’m not a flat-Earther,” he told Billboard in its story behind the song. “Personally, I believe the Earth is round, which would mean that there’s no end, right? But if the Earth was flat, which is kind of what I’m alluding to in the song, then that would mean that the horizon would be the end.”

So the promise is either impossible or endless, depending on the shape of the planet. On a round earth, following someone to the horizon never finishes. That reading fits a song with no resolution.

Holler notes the phrase itself is Biblical rather than original to the song, which is worth knowing before assuming the title was invented for it.

What this page will not tell you

Who the song is about. He says it is mostly based on true events and names nobody, and this site does not identify private people in an artist’s life.

The music video, directed by John Park and filmed in Austin, follows him through a series of letters leading to places tied to a high school romance. That is a video treatment, not a documented biography, and the difference matters.

How it was recorded

The recording happened fast, and the version most people know is not the version they first made.

Myers sent producer Brandon Hood a rough work tape just a couple of days before their first session together, which set the pattern for everything afterward. “All the songs he writes and brings in, he writes them just a few days before we cut them,” Hood said.

They cut it at Starstruck Studios in Nashville with a full band. Mark Hill played bass, Chris McHugh drums, Gordon Mote keys, Tom Bukovac and Kris Donegan guitars, and Bruce Bouton steel. Trey Keller sang background. Hood added the guitar solo afterward, with a country flavor against the song’s blues lean.

The first attempt did not work. Myers played the song acoustically for the band and they tried taking it that direction, but it came out without enough grit. They tried several other approaches too. What finally worked was the Stax soul arrangement Myers had used writing it in his bedroom, with two chords added to the chorus for movement. Hood kept it deliberately sparse.

“It wasn’t going to be something where we needed a wall of guitars and a wall of noise behind him,” Hood said. “I find it, as a producer, a lot more challenging to leave the space open than filling it.”

Myers sang live with the band, and that take is most of the final vocal.

The radio version is missing a verse

If you know this song from the radio, you have not heard all of it.

The album version runs 4:29. For country radio, Hood cut it to 3:23. He removed the pre-chorus, deleted his own guitar solo, and dropped half of the second verse. The “whole sundae and the cherry on top” lines are gone. That edit was finished days before the song shipped to stations.

Neither version is the real one. They are two different lengths of the same recording, and which one you know depends on where you heard it.

What it actually charted

Confirmed peaks only. Certification figures reflect an RIAA database check dated June 5, 2026.

Three things the table cannot show.

It charted before radio ever touched it. The October 2024 promotional release put it on the Hot 100 at number 94 by itself. It then entered Country Airplay at 60 in February 2025, roughly two months before the official April 28 radio date. Stations were playing it early.

It was his first country chart entry of any kind. Nothing he released before this reached Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay.

The Platinum is an upgrade. Billboard recorded it as Gold as of April 3, 2025. That was accurate then. It is Platinum now, which is why the check date above matters more than the word.

For his complete chart and certification record across both albums, the full discography has every release in one table.

Calling it his debut single is wrong

Google’s AI Overview describes this song as Ty Myers’ debut single. Wikipedia’s own article about it says nearly the same thing. It opens by saying the song “was released as Myers’ debut single to country radio on April 28, 2025.”

Read strictly, Wikipedia is defensible. It says debut single to country radio, and that is true. Read the way anyone actually reads a sentence, and especially the way a summarizer reads one, the qualifier falls off and the claim becomes false.

His real debut single is “Tie That Binds,” released in early 2023. It arrived with three other independent songs: “Drinkin’ Alone,” “But Me” and “Tomorrow’s Out of Sight.” No label was involved yet. He cut them with producer Tommy Detamore at Cherry Ridge Studio in Floresville, Texas, while still in high school. “Tie That Binds” went viral first. That is what brought the labels.

The distinction is not pedantry. One version says an artist arrived with a hit. The other says he released four songs, waited a year and a half, and broke through on a later one. The second version is what happened, and it is a better story.

This is a useful illustration of how a factual error spreads. It does not start in a bad source. It starts in a careful sentence in a good source, and it becomes wrong when something strips the qualifier.

Was there an Ends of the Earth EP?

Yes. There was a six-track release under that title in October 2024, and it sits between his early singles and The Select.

This question has been genuinely hard to answer, and the discography page on this site got it wrong. That page concluded the 2024 EP was an error. Its reason was that Wikipedia’s main article on Myers lists no such release in its discography tables. That was a reasonable reading of the evidence at hand. It was also incomplete.

Four sources place the EP in October 2024:

• AllMusic lists it as its own release, separate from the single, with its own catalog number and six tracks. Its editorial biography says his 2024 singles were “building up to the October release of his EP Ends of the Earth.”
• Wikipedia’s article on The Select carries a release chronology reading Ends of the Earth (2024), then The Select (2025), then Heavy on the Soul (2026). The same encyclopedia that omits it from one page names it on another.
• Saving Country Music reviewed it at the time. Its February 2025 album review says the writer was hooked “when he released the Ends of the Earth EP back in October.”
• Apple Music’s editorial biography says he signed with Columbia and released the EP in late 2024.

The six track lengths AllMusic lists are 4:29, 4:14, 3:46, 4:14, 4:10 and 4:16. In order, those match six The Select tracks: “Ends of the Earth,” “Worry Is a Sickness,” “Let ‘Em Talk,” “Drinkin’ Alone,” “But Me” and “Tie That Binds.” So it looks like a collection of songs he had already released, gathered behind the new title track, rather than six new recordings.

Two honest limits on that. The track titles are inferred from matching durations, not read off a label document, so treat the tracklist as probable rather than confirmed. AllMusic also lists a separate 46-second release under the same title. That is almost certainly a teaser clip, and it is likely part of why release databases disagree about what exists.

One more correction, smaller but worth being precise about. This project’s own research notes described the song as the lead single from that EP. The defensible statement is narrower: it is the EP’s title track, and it is separately the lead single from The Select. Those are two different relationships and collapsing them is what made the claim look wrong.

Three different songs, one title

This song shares its name with two other charting recordings, and listeners genuinely mix them up.

Lord Huron released “Ends of the Earth” in 2012 on Lonesome Dreams. Kenny Chesney recorded it in 2018 for Songs for the Saints, as a cover of the Lord Huron song. Ty Myers released his own unrelated composition in 2024. So there are three recordings and two songs.

The confusion shows up in real behavior. One listener in a Lord Huron community thread was looking at the Chesney cover and noticed “an identically titled song by Ty Myers” listed just below it. They played a few seconds and reported back that it was “not the same song.”

Google’s own People Also Ask box carries the question this creates: “Who originally sang Ends of the Earth?”

Searches for Ty Myers Ends of the Earth run at roughly a hundred times the volume of Lord Huron’s branded term. The demand is not really split. The title is still contested enough to generate errors, though. A 2018 review of the Chesney album called it “the 1981 Lord Huron hit.” That is impossible for a band formed in 2010.

Playing it live

There is no verified setlist for The Legal Tour on this site, and there will not be a predicted one.

What can be said is narrower. This is his only Hot 100 entry and his highest-certified song, so it is reasonable to expect it in the set, and reasonable to expect it late. That is an inference from the chart record, est., not a setlist claim, and anyone telling you the running order for a specific night is guessing.

One thing worth knowing about timing: door time is not stage time, and he is not the first act on this tour. The concert FAQ covers what is actually confirmed about set lengths and stage times, including the 21-plus policy that applies at some venues and not others.

An acoustic performance circulated in October 2025. One listener in a Texas country community called it a “pretty powerful song for someone so young.” That is one person’s view rather than a review. It is also the only firsthand comment about this song live that turned up in research.

What this page leaves out on purpose

No lyrics. They are licensed content and this site does not reproduce them. The official video and Genius both have them.

No chords, tabs or BPM, for the same reason, even though people search for all three.

No streaming totals. They go stale within a week, and a reference page quoting one as current is quietly wrong most of the time. Charts and certifications do not decay that way.

Nothing about who the song is about. He has not said, and the site will not guess.

Where to go next

His full catalogue, with writer credits and certifications for every track on both albums, is on the discography page. That page also carries the correction described above.

If you got here wondering how a 17-year-old wrote this, that question has its own answer. The biography covers his age, his family’s music, and the songwriting credits that make the age question answerable rather than just surprising.

The guitars and amps behind this recording, including the practice amp he wrote it on, are itemized on the guitar rig page.