Jordan Davis

Jordan Davis embodies a modern country vocalist who emulates Sam Hunt’s example by layering pop, contemporary R&B, and hip-hop textures over a firm country base. That mixture surfaces clearly on the buoyant, soulful “Singles You Up,” the track that drove his first album, 2018’s Home State, to number six on the Top Country Albums chart. He carried the same glossy, upbeat tone into the follow-up successes “Take It from Me” and “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot.” Turning back toward traditional country sounds, Davis issued the 2021 mini-LP Buy Dirt, whose title-track duet with Luke Bryan reached number one on the Top Country Songs chart and cleared the path for his second studio album, Bluebird Days, released in 2023. The set landed inside the Top 20, buoyed by the chart-topping single “What My World Spins Around.” Davis reentered the country rankings in 2024, introducing the new singles “I Ain’t Sayin’” and “Know You Like That” as early signals of a forthcoming album.

“Singles You Up” surfaced after Davis had spent several years writing songs professionally in Nashville. He had relocated from his birthplace of Shreveport, Louisiana, where he arrived in 1989. Music ran through the family: his father regularly played 1970s singer-songwriter material at home, his uncle Stan Paul Davis earned cuts with Tracy Lawrence on the 1992 single “Today’s Lonely Fool” and the 1997 number-two hit “Better Man, Better Off,” and his older brother Jacob also launched a singing career.

At first Davis did not envision music as his profession. After earning a resource-conservation degree from LSU Baton Rouge, he accepted his brother’s encouragement to try Nashville and moved there in 2012. In 2015 he secured a publishing agreement with ole Rights Management; the following February he signed with UMG Nashville. That same year he began working with guitarist Paul DiGiovanni, whose prior credits include Dan + Shay and Hunter Hayes, and started shaping material for his debut album. Once “Singles You Up” climbed to number five on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, Davis released a steady stream of additional singles ahead of the full-length project. Home State finally appeared in March 2018, lifting “Singles You Up” to number one on Country Airplay. Later in 2018 “Take It from Me” peaked at number two on the same tally, and “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot” reached the top spot in 2019.

Davis issued “Trouble Town” as his first post-Home State single in 2019, yet it failed to chart, as did the Julia Michaels duet “Cool Anymore.” “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot,” still circulating from the debut album, kept him visible and reached number one on Country Airplay in 2019. Another new release, “Almost Maybes,” advanced into the Country Airplay Top Ten in 2020 and anchored the self-titled EP that arrived that May. A second short project, Buy Dirt, followed in May 2021 and featured the title-track duet with Luke Bryan that topped the Hot Country Songs chart.

Davis scored another number-one hit in 2022 with “What My World Spins Around,” the lead single from his second album, Bluebird Days. Released in early 2023, the album debuted at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and produced the number-two single “Next Thing You Know” plus the Top Ten track “Tucson Too Late.” After completing that album cycle, Davis resurfaced in 2024 with several new singles, among them the optimistic “Good News Sold,” “I Ain’t Sayin’,” and “Know You Like That,” the last two both reaching the Top 30 on the country charts.