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Birth name | Charles Edgar Walker Hayes [1] |
Born | [2] [3] | December 27, 1979
Origin | Mobile, Alabama, U.S. [4] |
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Years active | 2010–present |
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Spouse(s) | Laney Beville (m. 2004) |
Charles Edgar Walker Hayes (born December 27, 1979) is an American country pop singer and songwriter. He has released three studio albums: Reason to Rhyme in 2011 on Capitol Records Nashville, and Boom and Country Stuff the Album in 2017 and 2022 on Monument Records. Hayes has charted multiple singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts; his highest-peaking is "Fancy Like", which reached the number one position on both charts between late 2021 and early 2022.
Hayes was born on December 27, 1979, in Mobile, Alabama. He has eight older half-siblings, four from his mother's previous marriage and four from his father's previous marriage. [5] His father, Charles Hayes, was a realtor and died in 2021. [2] [6] Hayes attended St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Mobile and then graduated from Birmingham–Southern College in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in music and an emphasis on piano. [2]
Hayes and his wife moved to Nashville in 2005, hoping to get in the country music business. He landed a job writing songs for a Nashville publishing company and then signed a contract with Mercury Records Nashville, [7] though he was quickly dropped and moved to Capitol Records Nashville. [2] In 2010, he released his first single, "Pants". It debuted at No. 60 on the Hot Country Songs charts dated for the week ending September 18, 2010. [8] Kyle Ward of Roughstock rated the single 3.5 stars out of 5. [9] Hayes debuted the video for the song in December 2010. [10] Hayes also appeared on an episode of 19 Kids and Counting, singing a song he wrote about Jill and her now husband, Derick's, proposal. "Pants" and a second single, "Why Wait for Summer", both appeared on an album for Capitol Records titled Reason to Rhyme. [11] [7]
Hayes co-wrote and sang guest vocals on "Dirty Side", a song from Colt Ford's 2014 album Thanks for Listening . [12] He also co-wrote Rodney Atkins' late-2014 single "Eat Sleep Love You Repeat". [13] After losing his contract with Capitol Records, Hayes worked at a Costco to support himself. [14]
In 2016, Hayes signed a publishing and production deal with Shane McAnally and SMACK/RareSpark, through which he released two extended plays: [15] 8Tracks Vol. 1 and 8Tracks Vol. 2. [16] This was followed by his first single for Monument Records, "You Broke Up with Me". [14] It appears on his first Monument album, Boom . [17] It would be his breakthrough hit on the Billboard charts.
In August 2018, Hayes released a single titled "90's Country", whose song lyrics contain multiple references to titles of country songs from the 1990s. [18]
On June 4, 2021, Hayes released the EP Country Stuff . One of its tracks, "Fancy Like", became a viral hit through TikTok and reached number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 [19] and number 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart, [20] becoming Hayes' highest-charting effort to date. [21] [22] It was subsequently released to country radio as his next single, and debuted at number 53 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. "Fancy Like" appeared on an extended play titled Country Stuff , the tracks of which also carried over to his third studio album, 2022's Country Stuff the Album . The album has also produced the singles "U Gurl" and "AA". [23]
He lives in Thompson's Station, Tennessee, with his wife, Laney Beville Hayes, and their six children. [24] The couple married in 2004. [25] Their seventh child and fourth daughter, Oakleigh Klover Hayes, died shortly after birth on June 6, 2018. Laney had to undergo surgery due to profuse bleeding after the birth. [26] Hayes is a Christian and has been sober since 2015. [27]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Sales | ||||
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US [28] | US Country [29] | AUS [30] | CAN [31] | |||||
Reason to Rhyme [32] |
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Boom |
| 37 | 6 | — | — |
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Country Stuff the Album |
| 9 | 2 | 57 | 27 |
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"—" denotes releases that did not chart |
Title | EP details | Peak chart positions | |||||
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US [28] | US Country [29] | US Heat [37] | CAN [31] | ||||
Walker Hayes |
| — | 66 | 43 | — | ||
8Tracks (Vol. 1): Good Shit |
| — | — | — | — | ||
8Tracks (Vol. 2): Break the Internet |
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8Tracks (Vol. 3): Black Sheep |
| — | — | — | — | ||
Country Stuff |
| 32 | 4 | — | 41 | ||
New Money |
| — | — | — | — | ||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart |
Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Sales | Album | ||||||
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US [19] | US Country [20] | US Country Airplay [39] | AUS [40] | CAN [41] | CAN Country [42] | NZ Hot [43] | |||||
2010 | "Pants" | — | 40 | — | — | — | — | Reason to Rhyme | |||
2011 | "Why Wait for Summer" | 42 | — | — | — | — | |||||
2014 | "Pimpin' Joy" [44] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
2017 | "You Broke Up with Me" | 62 | 9 | 10 | — | 100 | 17 | — |
| Boom | |
2018 | "Craig" | — | — | 59 | — | — | — | — | |||
"90's Country" | — | — | 52 | — | — | — | — |
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| Non-album single | |
2019 | "Don't Let Her" | — | — | 56 | — | — | — | — |
| 8Tracks (Vol. 3): Black Sheep | |
2020 | "Trash My Heart" [48] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
2021 | "Fancy Like" | 3 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 9 | 3 | 31 | Country Stuff the Album | ||
"U Gurl" | — [upper-alpha 1] | 28 | — | — | — | — | — |
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"AA" | 28 | 3 | 5 | — | 42 | 1 | — |
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2022 | "Y'all Life" | — [upper-alpha 2] | 32 | 29 | — | — | 49 | — |
| Non-album single | |
2023 | "Good with Me" | — | — | 43 | — | — | — | — | New Money | ||
"Fancy Like Christmas" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart |
Year | Video | Director |
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2010 | "Pants" [51] | Peter Zavadil |
2015 | "Dirty Side" (with Colt Ford) [52] | — |
2017 | "You Broke Up with Me" [53] | Blythe Thomas |
2018 | "90's Country" | Alex Alvga [54] |
"Craig" | ||
"Don't Let Her" | ||
2021 | "Fancy Like" | Robert Chavers |
2022 | "AA" | Walker Hayes and Robert Chavers |
2023 | "Fancy Like Christmas" | Beaver / Bennette |
Award | Year | Nominee | Category | Result | Ref. |
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CMT Music Awards | 2018 | "You Broke Up with Me" | Breakthrough Video of the Year | Nominated | [55] |
American Music Awards | 2021 | "Fancy Like" | Favorite Country Song | Nominated | [56] |
Grammy Awards | 2022 | Best Country Song | Nominated | [57] | |
Kids' Choice Awards | 2022 | Himself | Favorite Breakout Artist | Nominated | [58] |
Billboard Music Awards | 2022 | Top Song Sales Artist | Nominated | [59] | |
Top Country Artist | Nominated | ||||
Country Stuff the Album | Top Country Album | Nominated | |||
"Fancy Like" | Top Selling Song | Nominated | |||
Top Viral Song | Nominated | ||||
Top Country Song | Won |
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