Joe Nichols tries to make Believers

"This song is about passion - when people have passion about something, the sky's the limit," Nichols said. "It's also about believing in something bigger than what's right in front of you. There have been a lot of times in my life, both recently and in the past, that I've needed a lot of belief just to move me forward. This song gives me that."

The song was written by Ashley Gorley (Trace Adkins' You're Gonna Miss This), Wade Kirby (George Strait's I Saw God Today) and Bill Luther (Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's Let's Make Love), and produced by Nichols' longtime producer Brent Rowan.

Believers is the lead single from the artist's new CD, which will be released by Universal Records South later this year. The as yet untitled recording is the follow-up to Nichols' 2007 release, "Real Things."