YouTube Favorite Tyler Barham Releases Latest Single, “Just Two Kids”
NASHVILLE, TN (March 31, 2015) – YouTube favorite, Tyler Barham, has released his newest single, “Just Two Kids.” The song is available to radio programmers on CDX Vol. 614, and digitally via CDX InstaTracks and Play MPE. It is also available for purchase at iTunes and other digital retailers.
“Just Two Kids” by Billboard’s “One To Watch” Barham, is the follow-up to his recent chart success with “More Than A Cotton Dress” and is the top-selling track from Barham’s Don’t Cage This Heart EP, which debuted at #19 on Billboard’s Heatseeker Album Chart for all genres.
Barham says, “I’m so thankful that George Ducas and Arlis Albritton let me record ‘Just Two Kids.’ When I first heard it I fell in love with the story and pictures the song painted and I knew I wanted to record it. I grew up in the small town of Florence, MT and I have friends who are still living the story of this song. They started out together as kids and had no idea that a simple kiss would lead to forever.”
2015 is shaping up to be the best year yet for Barham. His extremely active social following has grown to 50,000 online fans from his combined social media sites and nearly 9 million YouTube views. His cover songs have been shared on social media by the original artists themselves, including Blake Shelton, Lady A, and Brett Eldredge. Darius Rucker and Keith Urban have also featured Barham’s covers on the pre-concert jumbotron video screens on their national tours.
All of this attention earned Barham a feature article in a recent edition of the CMA Close Up magazine, alongside The Band Perry and Joe Nichols, in a story focused on tips from artists who are maintaining successful social media platforms. My Country Nation (an OTT channel specifically for country music fans launched by Brad Paisley, Taillight, ARC Entertainment and WME) recently asked Barham and Chris Young to be correspondents at the “Swimville” event held in downtown Nashville for the February launch of the 2015 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue release. Here is a link featuring Barham at the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxcIbGv-W_o&feature=youtu.be. My Country Nation was so pleased with the young talent that they asked him back and Barham can now be seen conducting interviews as a “musical man on the street” for the network.
For more information about Tyler Barham, follow him online:
FaceBook: www.facebook.com/TylerBarham
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TyBlakeBarham
YouTube: www.youtube.com/tyblakebarham
ABOUT TYLER BARHAM:
Born in Bozeman and raised in Florence, Montana, Tyler Barham began singing when he was nine. Although he enjoyed singing different styles of music, it did not take him long to realize his heart (and eventually his baritone voice) belonged to country music. In his early teens, Tyler competed and won various regional talent competitions, but also while in high school, Tyler discovered YouTube and began posting covers of his favorite country songs, which quickly introduced him to a worldwide audience.
In 2008 Tyler made the leap from computer screen to TV screen as a finalist on Great American Country’s nationwide talent search, Next GAC Star, and in the next few years was featured on E!’s Opening Act based on his YouTube following and was the winner of nationally syndicated radio host Radio Lia’s Your Big Breakcontest.
In September of 2010, with the help of industry veterans John Griffin and Dave Flint, Tyler released an independent self-titled EP that reached No. 39 on the iTunes Country Album Chart. His follow-up EP, titled Twenty-One, released on March 21st 2011, his 21st birthday, cruised its way up the iTunes Country Album Chart to #19. Building on the sales success of his previous releases, Tyler’s most recent original release, Don’t Cage This Heart, debuted at #56 on the Billboard Country Album Chart and #19 on the BillboardHeatseekers Album Chart which charts album titles from new or developing acts in all formats.
Tyler has also enjoyed success at GrassRoots radio with singles “17 & Young,” “Meet Me In Montana,” and the original holiday song, “Coal In Your Stocking This Year.” His most recent single, “More Than A Cotton Dress,” was lauded by programmers as the catchy and compelling answer to the proliferation of “Bro Country.”