With over 60 Million total streams to date, the James Barker Band have taken the country music scene by storm. Formed in 2013, the founding members of this award-winning band (James Barker, Taylor Abram, Bobby Martin, and Connor Stephen) continue to break records one release at a time.
James Barker Band performing at Boots & Hearts 2018, in Oro Mendonte. Photo: CJ
The James Barker Band first burst onto the scene when they won the Boots and Hearts Emerging Artist Showcase in 2015 and were signed to Universal Music Canada. Their debut EP “Game On” has so far accumulated over 35 million streams, four top-10 hits on Canadian country radio, and three gold-certified singles. James Barker Band has had the most spun song by a Canadian artist on Canadian country radio in both 2017 and 2018. “Game On” was awarded “Country Album of the Year” at the 2018 JUNO awards.
Their first #1 Canadian country radio hit “Chills” also reached #46 on the US Country radio airplay chart in 2018, the first time for a Canadian Country artist not signed to a US label to do so. The band have made history with the SOCAN Songwriter Prize nomination for their song “Chills”, which is the first ever country music nomination for this prestigious all-genre award. This record-breaking single was also awarded “Single of the Year” and “Best Selling Canadian Single” at the 2018 Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Awards.
Their recent and fourth gold-certified single “Good Together” was the most spun Canadian country music song in 2018. They are honored to have “Good Together” featured on Spotify’s “Hot Country” (the world’s biggest country playlist) – capturing 18 Million streams and counting on Spotify alone. In the fall of 2018 they were selected by Spotify Canada to be their first ever Canadian-signed artist in any genre to be chosen to record a Spotify Single Session.
James Barker Band Preforms at The London Concert Theatre on the Game On Tour. Photo: Kayla Winkworth
The James Barker Band headlined a national tour in 2018 performing for over 15,000 fans across 22 Canadian cities.
Today they return with a hot new single “Keep It Simple” and huge news that they’ve been added to the C2C Festival in London England this March! One of only a very few Canadian artists selected to perform at this highly coveted festival!
On the new music lead vocals and band’s namesake, James Barker comments:
“We’re really excited to finally get some new music out there. It’s been over a year, but it feels like twice that! With this next song we wanted to push the boundaries a bit, which is something we take pride in, so people can definitely expect it to be a little different from anything we’ve released before. A big thing that we take in to account with our music is how it’s going to translate live, and how it will affect our live show. Keep It Simple is really fun and upbeat, which, to me, means it’s going to be a blast when we play it live!”
Watch for more exciting news involving James Barker Band coming in the next few weeks, in the meantime be sure to download or stream “Keep It Simple” wherever you get your music!
You can listen to, or purchase, “Keep It Simple” here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCWQ1pNUBJ4
