For country singer Dustin Lynch, his life changed after he played the Country Music Association Festival in 2017. Lynch, who played the festival again this year, said that he got to debut his song "Small Town Boy," which went on to be the biggest country song of 2017. (June 10) AP

Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Dustin Lynch sang in the festival in 2018, while his song, Small Town Boy, actually was debuted in another year."?
Yes