| Tenille Arts | |
| Birth Name: | Tenille Jade Dakota Arts |
| Birth Date: | 19 April 1994 |
| Birth Place: | Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Origin: | Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Genre: | Country |
| Instrument: | Vocals, acoustic guitar |
| Years Active: | 2009–present |
Tenille Jade Dakota Arts (born April 19, 1994) is a Canadian country music singer from Weyburn, Saskatchewan. She released a self-titled extended play and her debut studio album Rebel Child with 19th & Grand Records. In 2020, Arts released the album Love, Heartbreak, & Everything in Between and won the Rising Star Award from the Canadian Country Music Association. She released her third studio album Girl to Girl in October 2021.[1] In 2022, Arts signed to Dreamcatcher Artists. She released her fourth album To Be Honest in 2024.[2]
Arts was raised in her hometown of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, where she began taking lessons in piano and singing, and developed an interest in songwriting in her teenage years.[3] By 2009, she began posting videos of her cover versions of popular songs, including one of Taylor Swift's "Fifteen" that captured the attention of a talent manager from Nashville, Tennessee.[3] Arts briefly relocated to Nashville to pursue this opportunity, but returned to Canada to finish high school. In 2015, she relocated to Nashville to sign a publishing contract with Noble Vision Music Group and released "Breathe", a charity single in support of Cystic Fibrosis research.[4]
She was awarded the Emerging Artists Award from the Saskatchewan Country Music Association and was nominated for the Discovery Artist program from the Canadian Country Music Association, both in 2016, for her burgeoning success. That year, she released her debut, self-titled extended play through the independent label imprint 19th & Grand Records.[5] "What He's Into" was released to Canadian country radio in January 2017 as her official debut single and reached 47 on the Canada Country airplay chart. Following the success of that record, Arts released her debut studio album, Rebel Child, on October 27, 2017, preceded by the single, "Cold Feet".[6] The album reached number 45 on the sales component chart of the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
In 2018, Arts made an appearance on the 22nd season of popular American reality television series, The Bachelor, performing an original ballad titled, "Moment of Weakness" and in 2020 performing "Somebody Like That".[7] Exposure from the show led to increased interest in Arts's music and a record deal from indie label Reviver Records, which she signed in March 2018.[7] A deluxe edition of Rebel Child was issued that year with new tracks including "Moment of Weakness".[8] Her first release for Reviver, "I Hate This", was released in the summer of 2018 and charted on the Hot Country Songs in the United States.[9] A Canadian-exclusive single, "Mad Crazy Love", became Arts's second single to reach the Canadian country airplay charts. Two further singles were released in 2019 – "Call You Names" and "Somebody Like That" – to promote her second studio album, Love, Heartbreak, & Everything in Between, which was released on January 10, 2020.[10]
On October 22, 2021, Arts released her third studio album Girl to Girl, which included the singles "Give It to Me Straight" and "Back Then, Right Now".[11] In 2022, Arts signed with Dreamcatcher Artists as the flagship artist on their label. As part of the deal, Dreamcatcher acquired her entire catalogue and released the new single "Jealous of Myself".[12] Arts joined Lee Brice on his early 2023 "Beer Drinking Opportunity Tour" in Canada along with Josh Ross.[13] In May 2024, she released her fourth album To Be Honest.[14]
| Title | Details | Peak positions | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US Heat. [15] | |||||||
| Rebel Child |
| — | — | |||||
| — | 19 | ||||||
| — | — | ||||||
| — | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released to that territory. | ||||||||
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [17] | CAN Country [18] | US [19] | US Country Songs [20] | US Country Airplay [21] | ||||||
| 2015 | "Breathe" | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 2017 | "What He's Into" | — | 47 | — | — | — | Tenille Arts | |||
| "Cold Feet"[22] | — | — | — | — | — | Rebel Child | ||||
| 2018 | "Moment of Weakness"[23] | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "I Hate This" | — | — | — | 41 | — | |||||
| "Mad Crazy Love" | — | 40 | — | — | — | |||||
| 2019 | "Call You Names"[24] | — | — | — | — | — | Love, Heartbreak, & Everything in Between | |||
| "Somebody Like That" | — | 9 | 50 | 7 | 3 | |||||
| 2020 | "Everybody Knows Everybody" | — | 12 | — | — | — | ||||
| 2021 | "Give It to Me Straight" | — | 6 | — | — | — | Girl to Girl | |||
| "Back Then, Right Now" | 85 | 12 | — | — | 34 | |||||
| 2022 | "Girl to Girl" | — | 10 | — | — | — | ||||
| 2023 | "Jealous of Myself" | — | 43 | — | — | 56 | To Be Honest | |||
| 2024 | "Last Time Last" | — | 51 | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released to that territory. | ||||||||||
| Year | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | "Wildfire and Whiskey" | Tenille Arts |
| 2019 | "Wouldn't You Like to Know" | |
| 2021 | "Over You Is You" | Girl to Girl |
| 2023 | "Summer Don't Go" | To Be Honest |
| "Wonder Woman" | ||
| 2024 | "Next Best Thing" |
| Year | Title | Director | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | "What He's Into" | [26] | ||
| "Cold Feet" | Patrick Tohill | [27] | ||
| 2018 | "I Hate This" | Todd Cassetty | [28] | |
| 2019 | "Somebody Like That" | Stephen Kinigopoulos & Alexa Kinigopoulos | [29] | |
| "Tears" | Robby Starbuck | [30] | ||
| 2020 | "Everybody Knows Everybody" | Grant Claire | [31] | |
| 2021 | "Give It to Me Straight" | Grant Claire | [32] | |
| "Back Then, Right Now" | Kristen Barlowe | [33] | ||
| 2023 | "Jealous of Myself" | Roman White | [34] |
| Tenille Arts | |
| Wins: | 23 |
| Nominations: | 48 |
| Award1: | Canadian Country Music Awards |
| Award1w: | 4 |
| Award1n: | 22 |
| Award2: | Juno Awards |
| Award2w: | 0 |
| Award2n: | 1 |
| Award3: | Saskatchewan Country Music Awards |
| Award3w: | 15 |
| Award3n: | 19 |
| Award4: | Western Canadian Music Awards |
| Award4w: | 2 |
| Award4n: | 4 |
| Year | Association | Category | Work | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Canadian Country Music Awards | Discovery Artist Award | Herself | [35] | ||
| Saskatchewan Country Music Awards | Emerging Artist Award | [36] | ||||
| 2017 | Album of the Year | Tenille Arts | [37] | |||
| 2018 | Canadian Country Music Awards | Interactive Artist or Group of the Year | Herself | |||
| Saskatchewan Country Music Awards | Female Artist of the Year | [38] | ||||
| Album of the Year | Rebel Child | |||||
| Songwriter of the Year | "Rain Drops, Dirt Road" | |||||
| Single of the Year | "What He's Into" | |||||
| Video of the Year | "Cold Feet" | |||||
| 2019 | Fans' Choice Entertainer of the Year | Herself | [39] [40] | |||
| Female Artist of the Year | ||||||
| Interactive Artist of the Year | ||||||
| Songwriter of the Year | "Mad Crazy Love" | |||||
| Single of the Year | ||||||
| Video of the Year | "I Hate This" | |||||
| 2020 | Canadian Country Music Awards | Album of the Year | Love, Heartbreak, & Everything in Between | [41] | ||
| Rising Star of the Year | Herself | |||||
| Saskatchewan Country Music Awards | Female Artist | [42] | ||||
| Songwriter of the Year | Herself | |||||
| 2021 | Canadian Country Music Awards | Fans' Choice | Herself | [43] | ||
| Female Artist of the Year | Herself | |||||
| Saskatchewan Country Music Awards | Female Artist of the Year | Herself | [44] | |||
| Songwriter of the Year | Herself | |||||
| Single of the Year | "Somebody Like That" | |||||
| Album or EP of the Year | Love, Heartbreak & Everything in Between | |||||
| Academy of Country Music Awards | New Female Artist of the Year | Herself | [45] | |||
| 2022 | Juno Awards | Country Album of the Year | Girl to Girl | [46] | ||
| Saskatchewan Country Music Awards | Female Artist of the Year | Herself | [47] | |||
| Interactive Artist or Group of the Year | ||||||
| National/International Artist Award | ||||||
| Canadian Country Music Awards | Entertainer of the Year | [48] [49] | ||||
| Fans' Choice | ||||||
| Female Artist of the Year | ||||||
| 2023 | Canadian Country Music Awards | Female Artist of the Year | Herself | [50] |