Andrew Hyatt Explained

Andrew Hyatt is a Canadian country singer-songwriter from Sudbury, Ontario,[1] most noted as a Canadian Country Music Award winner for Rising Star of the Year at the 2022 Canadian Country Music Awards.[2] He has released one studio album Iron & Ashes, and seven extended plays, and has charted multiple top twenty singles on the Billboard Canada Country chart, including "Neverland".

Biography

Hyatt released the EP Never Back Down in 2015, and his full-length debut album Iron & Ashes was released in 2017.[3] He received three nominations at the Country Music Association of Ontario awards in 2018, for Male Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Rising Star of the Year.[4] He followed up with the EPs Cain in 2018 and Abel in 2019.[5] He supported the EPs with touring as an opening act for Dean Brody and Tim Hicks.[5]

In 2020, he had begun a 36-date tour opening for Gord Bamford when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the tour.[1] He turned to further recording, releasing numerous EPs including Neverland (2020), The Wanderspace Sessions (2021),[1] Wild Flowers (2021)[6] and Four Good Years (2022).[7] He was a nominee for "Rising Star" at the 2021 Canadian Country Music Awards.[8]

Hyatt's extended play Four Good Years was nominated for "Album of the Year" at the 2023 Canadian Country Music Awards.[9] In January 2024, Hyatt released the EP L Is For.[10] In the spring of 2024, Hyatt embarked on "The Country Mixtape Tour" across Canada as a co-headliner alongside Shawn Austin and Tyler Joe Miller.[11]

Discography

Extended plays

TitleDetails
Never Back Down
  • Released: September 25, 2015
  • Label: Wax
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
Cain
  • Released: October 19, 2018
  • Label: 604
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
Abel
  • Released: April 19, 2019
  • Label: 604
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
Neverland
  • Released: October 30, 2020
  • Label: 604
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
Wild Flowers
  • Released: May 28, 2021
  • Label: 604
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
Four Good Years
  • Released: May 6, 2022
  • Label: 604
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
L Is For
  • Released: January 5, 2024
  • Label: 604
  • Format: Digital download, streaming

Singles

Year! scope="col" rowspan="2"
TitlePeak chart positionsAlbum
CAN Country
[12]
CAN
[13]
2014"Love Drunk"Never Back Down
2015"Livin' the Dream"
2016"MGR (Me and a Girl and a Radio)"Iron & Ashes
2017"On Me"11
"Do It with You"8
2018"Habit"14 CAIN
"My Kind of Crazy"48
2019"Didn't Know Me"17 Neverland
2020"I Needed That"30
"Neverland"13 88
2022"Close to You"39 Four Good Years
"Four Good Years"31
2023"Still Somethin'"
2024"L Is For"43 L Is For
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Christmas singles

YearSingle
2019"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
2020"Put a Bow on It"
2021"Santa Is a Good Ole Boy"
2022"All We Need"

Notes and References

  1. Heidi Ulrichsen, "Sudbury’s Andrew Hyatt releases 3 new country music videos". Sudbury.com, March 1, 2021.
  2. Sarah Curran, "2022 CCMA Awards: See The Winners". ET Canada, September 11, 2022.
  3. John R. Kennedy, "Andrew Hyatt's Debut Album 'Iron and Ashes' Gets Release Date". iHeartRadio Canada, April 18, 2017.
  4. Joe Belanger, "Local artists among Ontario country music award nominees". London Free Press, April 11, 2018.
  5. Dutch Bickell, "Andrew Hyatt releases new EP ABEL, follow up to 2018’s EP CAIN". Canadian Beats, April 26, 2019.
  6. Dan Boshart, "Andrew Hyatt: Surviving and Thriving Like A Wild Flower". 519 Magazine, July 12, 2021,
  7. Web site: Dagg . Nanci . Andrew Hyatt announces his EP release party for Four Good Years and will headline at Toronto's legendary El Mocambo on May 6 Canadian Beats Media Nanci Dagg Promos . 16 April 2022 . 19 June 2023.
  8. Joe Belanger, "Canadian country music's 'rising stars' set to shine in London". London Free Press, November 27, 2021.
  9. Web site: 2023 CCMA Awards Nominees. Canadian Country Music Association. July 13, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230714125710/https://ccma.org/2023-nominees/. July 14, 2023. July 18, 2023.
  10. Web site: Conversation with Andrew Hyatt about “L Is For”. Margot. Moore. January 9, 2024. June 25, 2024. HeatWavesMag.
  11. Web site: TYLER JOE MILLER, SHAWN AUSTIN AND ANDREW HYATT TEAM UP FOR THE 2024 COUNTRY MIXTAPE TOUR. December 12, 2023. Sound Check Entertainment. Hendrik. Pape. December 16, 2023.
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