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Waylon Wyatt
Waylon Wyatt is an 18-year-old country singer-songwriter from Hackett, Arkansas who went viral in August 2023 after posting a TikTok from a construction site wearing his dad's company hat. Named after Waylon Jennings, he signed with Music Soup/Darkroom Records within two weeks of going viral. His debut EP 'Til the Sun Goes Down' amassed 225M+ streams, with 'Arkansas Diamond' earning RIAA Gold. His second EP 'Out of the Blue' (June 2025) - his first recorded with a full studio band - expanded his global reach via tours with Sam Barber and Zach Bryan in the UK. A Vevo 2026 DSCVR Artist to Watch, he is now headlining his own 35-date 'Everywhere Under the Sun' North American tour.
Zach Bryan
Zachary Lane Bryan is an American singer-songwriter and record producer who went from posting iPhone recordings on YouTube while serving as a U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnanceman to breaking U.S. concert attendance records and landing back-to-back Billboard 200 #1 albums. Rooted in Americana, outlaw country, and raw emotional storytelling, Bryan released his sixth studio album With Heaven on Top in January 2026 — debuting 18 songs simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 — and has maintained a consistent Hot 100 presence throughout 2026 with singles 'Plastic Cigarette' (#13) and 'Say Why' (#25). A Grammy winner, a literary patron (he paid $12.1M for Jack Kerouac's On the Road scroll), and an artist who refuses to be called country, Bryan is one of the most commercially and culturally influential musicians of his generation.