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Single cover. Master of None, LLC (digital single) (2025)
"Butterfly" is a single by Zac Brown Band and Dolly Parton. It was released on September 5, 2025, by Master of None, LLC as the third single from Zac Brown Band's Love & Fear album. The song was written by Zac Brown, Sasha Sirota, and Dan Auerbach. Zac Brown produced the song. It peaked at number one on the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart. A music video was released alongside the single on September 5. "Butterfly" was released as a double A-side single with "Give It Away."

Track listing

  1. Butterfly    Zac Brown Band and Dolly Parton (Zac Brown, Sasha Sirota, Dan Auerbach) 4:04
  2. Give It Away    Zac Brown Band (Zac Brown, Bear Rinehart) 3:30

Music video

Commercial performance

"Butterfly" debuted and peaked at number one on the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart dated September 20, 2025.

Personnel

Performance
  • Zac Brown Band:
    • ​Zac Brown – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
    • Coy Bowles – electric guitar
    • Clay Cook – Hammond organ, background vocals, Wurlitzer piano, marimba, bells
    • Daniel de los Reyes – percussion
    • Matt Mangano – bass
    • Jimmy De Martini – violin, background vocals
    • John Driskell Hopkins – background vocals
    • Caroline Jones – background vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Dolly Parton – lead vocals
  • Roy Agee – trombone
  • David Angell – violin, orchestra conductior
  • Monissa Angell – viola
  • Sam Bacco – percussion, drums, vibraphone
  • Carrie Bailey – violin
  • Kevin Bate – cello
  • Kenny Bifano – violin
  • Emily Bowland – clarinet
  • Seanad Chang – viola
  • WeiTsun Chang – violin
  • Janet Darnell – violin
  • David Davidson – violin
  • Harry Ditzel – French horn​
  • Andrew Dunn – cello
  • ​Rachel Englander – violin
  • Chris Farrell – viola
  • Erik Gratton – flute
  • Barry Gren – trombone
  • Erin Hall – violin
  • Allison Hoffman – violin
  • Austin Hoke – cello​​Matt Jefferson – bass trombone
  • Karen Kinkelmann – violin
  • Josse Kleine – violin
  • Neil Konouchi – tuba
  • Annaleise Kowert – violin
  • Jennifer Kummer – French Horn
  • Betsy Lamb – viola
  • Rachel Miller – harp
  • Craig Nelson – bass
  • Leslie Norton – French horn
  • Steve Patrick – trumpet
  • Gil Perel – bassoon
  • Dan Reinker – viola
  • Joel Reist – bass
  • Sari Reist – cello
  • Jung-Min Shin – violin
  • Luke Simonson – oboe
  • Annaleise Spina – French horn
  • Marry Kathryn Vanosdale – violin
  • Kristin Wilkinson – orchestra conductor
Production
  • Austin Brown – assistant engineer
  • Zac Brown – producer
  • McKinley James – assistant engineer
  • Stephen Lamb – copyist
  • Christian Langson - mixing engineer
  • Thomas Lopez – assistant engineer
  • Matt Mangano – editing engineer, associate producer
  • M. Allen Parker – recording engineer
  • Sarah Randolph – assistant engineer
  • Tate Sablatura – assistant engineer
  • Nick Spezia – recording engineer
  • Jonny Ullman – assistant engineer
  • Caleb Vanbuskirk – assistant engineer
  • Kristin Wilkinson – orchestrator
  • Tyler Zwiep – assistant engineer