Easton Corbin

Easton Corbin
Easton Corbin in concert in 2013
Background information
Born	April 12, 1982[1]
Origin	Trenton, Florida, U.S.[2]
Genres	Country
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	2009–present
Labels	Mercury Nashville
Associated acts	Carson Chamberlain Rory Lee Feek
Website	www.eastoncorbin.com

Easton Corbin (born April 12, 1982) is an American country music singer. He signed to Mercury Records Nashville in 2009 and released his self-titled debut album in March 2010, featuring the two number one hits "A Little More Country Than That" and "Roll with It", as well as the number 14 hit "I Can't Love You Back". His second album, All Over the Road, was released in September 2012. Its first single, "Lovin' You Is Fun", was released in February 2012. The album's second single, "All Over the Road", was released in January 2013. As of 2013, he had sold over 470,000 albums and over 2 million singles.

Biography

Easton Corbin is a native of Trenton, Florida. He lived on his grandparents' farm following his parents' divorce, and was introduced to country music-themed television programs such as Hee Haw. After taking guitar lessons at fourteen from session musician Pee Wee Melton at Dixie Music Center, he joined a band which won opening slots at a music festival and for Janie Fricke and Mel McDaniel.

He attended the University of Florida's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and earned an agribusiness degree, before marrying his wife, Briann, on September 2, 2006. They moved to Nashville, Tennessee on October 14, 2006, where he worked at an Ace Hardware and performed at writers' nights.^[3] A distant cousin who is a professor of entertainment management recommended him to contacts in Nashville.

On The Bobby Bones Show on September 3, 2013, Corbin mentioned that he is no longer married.

Music career

2008–11: Easton Corbin

It actually all started in 2005 when Easton Corbin visited 1st Street Music in Lake City, Florida to enter a contest for the Annual Suwannee River Jam. The manager of the store, Andy Temple, listened to Easton's in store demo and immediately contacted his personal friend and songwriter Reese Wilson in Nashville, Tennessee about this unknown talented artist. Andy and Reese worked with Easton both in recording his first demos, creating press releases and showcases, a website, and introducing him to producer Steve Davis. Temple, Wilson, and Davis played a major role in jump starting Easton's career. In 2008 Corbin recorded a six track demo CD with Nashville based songwriter Reese Wilson and producer Steve Davis, on the CD were three full instrument tracks and three acoustic tracks. The songs on the demo were "All About You", "I Ain't A Highway", "Missin' You", "Gettin' 'Got, Good", "Miracles Happen" and a cover of Hank Williams, Jr's "Eleven Roses". Only a small number of the demo discs were pressed so the disc itself is very scarce and has become a highly sought after collectors item for hardcore fans. The tracks can be found digitally on YouTube. The tracks have never been added to any of Corbin's albums yet, making them still unreleased.^[4]

Joe Fisher, senior director of A&R at Universal Music Group Nashville, signed Easton Corbin to the Mercury Nashville label in 2009. He released his debut single, "A Little More Country Than That", in July. Rory Lee Feek of Joey + Rory wrote the song with Don Poythress and Wynn Varble. The label released a four-song digital extended play entitled A Little More Country Than That in August,^[3] shortly before the single entered Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Corbin's self-titled debut album was released in March 2010, under the production of Carson Chamberlain.^[2] The album had first-week sales of 43,000 copies, making for the highest first-week sales on the Mercury Nashville label in seven years.^[5]

"A Little More Country Than That" peaked at Number One on the country chart dated for the week ending April 3, 2010,^[6][7][8] making Easton Corbin the first solo male country artist to send a debut single to Number One since Dierks Bentley in 2003 with "What Was I Thinkin'".^[9][10] "Roll with It" was released as the album's second single; in October it also hit Number One. The album's third and final single, "I Can't Love You Back," released to radio in November 2010 and reached a peak of number 14 in early 2011.

To promote Easton Corbin, he went on tour as an opening act for Brad Paisley's H20 World Tour, which began in May 2010.^[9]

2012–13: All Over the Road

Easton Corbin being interviewed

Easton Corbin released his fourth single, "Lovin' You Is Fun", in February 2012. It peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. It served as the lead-off single to his second studio album, All Over the Road, which was released in September 2012. The album's second single, "All Over the Road", was released to country radio in January 2013 and peaked at number 3 on Country Airplay in September 2013.

2014–present: About to Get Real

Corbin's third studio album, About to Get Real, was released on June 30, 2015.^[11] Its first single, "Clockwork", was released to country radio in January 2014. It peaked at number 32 on Country Airplay. The album's second single, "Baby Be My Love Song", was released on September 8, 2014.^[12] The album's third single, "Yup", was released on July 27, 2015. The album's fourth single, "Are You With Me" released to country radio on May 23, 2016.

Discography

Studio albums

Title	Details	Peak chart positions		Sales
		US Country [13]	US [14]
Easton Corbin	Release date: March 2, 2010 Label: Mercury Nashville Formats: CD, music download	4	10	US: 371,000[15]
All Over the Road	Release date: September 18, 2012 Label: Mercury Nashville Formats: CD, music download	2	11	US: 177,000[16]
About to Get Real	Release date: June 30, 2015[17] Label: Mercury Nashville Formats: CD, music download	1	13	US: 59,800[18]

Extended plays

Title	Details	Peak chart positions
		US Country [13]	US Heat [19]
A Little More Country Than That	Release date: August 18, 2009 Label: Mercury Nashville Formats: CD, music download	44	27

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions					Certifications (sales threshold)	Album
		US Country [20]	US Country Airplay [21]	US [22]	CAN Country [23]	CAN [24]
2009	"A Little More Country Than That"	1	—	42	—	66	US: Gold[25]	Easton Corbin
2010	"Roll with It"	1	—	55	—	88	US: Gold[26]
	"I Can't Love You Back"	14	—	76	—	—
2012	"Lovin' You Is Fun"	7	5	57	—	87	US: Gold[27]	All Over the Road
2013	"All Over the Road"	9	3	51	12	78	US: Gold[28]
2014	"Clockwork"	31	32	124	—	—		About to Get Real
	"Baby Be My Love Song"	11	3	56	5	77
2015	"Yup"	44	35	—	—	—
2016	"Are You with Me"	46	41	—	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Promotional singles

Year	Single	Peak positions	Album
		US Country
2015	"Let's Ride"	50	N/A

Featured singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		AUT [29]	BEL (Vl) [30]	BEL (Wa) [31]	FR [32]	GER [32]	NED [33]	NOR [34]	SUI [35]
2014	"Are You with Me" (credited to Lost Frequencies featuring vocals of Easton Corbin)	1	1	1	4	1	3	4	1

Music videos

Year	Video	Director
2009	"A Little More Country Than That"	Stephen Shepherd
2010	"A Little More Country Than That" (acoustic)
	"I Can't Love You Back"	Shaun Silva
2012	"Lovin' You Is Fun"
	"Are You with Me" (acoustic)[36]	Stephen Shepherd
	"All Over the Road" (acoustic)[37]
	"Lovin' You Is Fun" (acoustic)[38]
2013	"All Over the Road" (Yahoo! Ram Country)[39]	Steve Angus
	"All Over the Road"[40]	Roman White
2014	"Clockwork"[41]	Shaun Silva
	"Baby Be My Love Song" (Yahoo! Ram Country)[42]	Steve Angus
2015	"Baby Be My Love Song"[43]	Shaun Silva
	"Baby Be My Love Song" (acoustic)[44]	Dusty Barker
	"Let's Ride"[45]	Shaun Silva

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Result
2010	CMT Music Awards	USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year - "A Little More Country Than That"	Nominated
	Country Music Association	New Artist of the Year	Nominated
		Single of the Year - "A Little More Country Than That"	Nominated
	American Country Awards	New/Breakthrough Artist of the Year	Won
		Single of the Year - "A Little More Country Than That"	Nominated
		Single by a Male Artist - "A Little More Country Than That"	Nominated
		Single by New/Breakthrough Artist - "A Little More Country Than That"	Won
		Music Video of the Year - "A Little More Country Than That"	Nominated
		Music Video by a Male Artist - "A Little More Country Than That"	Nominated
		Music Video by New/Breakthrough Artist - "A Little More Country Than That"	Won
2011	Academy of Country Music Awards	Top New Solo Vocalist	Nominated

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