Bio
Warner Music Nashville powerhouse Gabby Barrett came into national prominence as a finalist on ABC’s American Idol in 2018 and has since burst on to the scene with new single, "I Hope.” Tapped as a “Highway Find” by SiriusXM’s “The Highway,” one of Rolling Stone Country’s “10 Best Country and Americana Songs To Hear Now,” and a CMT Artist Discovery member, Barrett and her “sizzling slow burner” (Sounds Like Nashville) are garnering serious attention from fans and media alike. Recently making her first return performance on Idol for the national TV debut of the track, and taking it to Disney’s “ARDYs: A Celebration of Music,” “I Hope” claimed the #1 spot on SiriusXM’s“The Highway” Hot 30 Countdown and on Radio Disney’s Country Top 50 chart, solidifying Barrett as “a voice you must hear” (The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review). A native of Munhall, Pennsylvania, and one of eight children, Barrett began singing in her local gospel choir at the age of nine, started playing shows at age 11 and performed 136 shows in 2017 alone, before rising to fame on Idol. She has recently shared the stage with superstars like Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Chris Lane, Dustin Lynch, Jake Owen, Bebe Rexha, Sugarland, Carrie Underwood and more, and is currently in the studio with GRAMMY-nominated producer Ross Copperman working on her debut full-length album.
Warner Music Nashville's Gabby Barrett is setting the trend. Spotlighted as an Amazon Music Breakthrough artist, featured in Variety's 2020 Young Hollywood Impact Report, named Radio Disney's Next Big Thing, a Billboard "Chartbreaker," a SiriusXM + Pandora All-Genre and Country Artist to Watch, and a short-listed GRAMMY contender (
Forbes,
Billboard), Barrett continues to prove why she's "Country music's rising star" (E!). Her meteoric debut, the 2X PLATINUM "lightning-in-a-bottle single" (PEOPLE) "I Hope," is 2020's most-streamed Country song to date, cracking the Top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Reigning atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for six weeks, "I Hope" was also the first debut single by a solo female artist to top the Country radio charts since 2017, and made her the youngest artist with a #1 debut at Country radio in over two decades. Adding to over 500 MILLION+ career on-demand streams, her full-length LP GOLDMINE earned more first-week debut album streams than any other Country act in history, including her current SIX songs spinning across FIVE radio formats: “I Hope” and latest single "The Good Ones" (Country radio); "I Hope" feat. Charlie Puth (Top 40, Hot AC and AC); "Footprints on the Moon" (Radio Disney); "Got Me" feat. Shane & Shane (SiriusXM's "The Message" and Music Choice's Contemporary Christian channels); and "Rose Needs a Jack" (SiriusXM's "The Highway"). Earning her first-ever CMA Awards nominations for New Artist of the Year and Single of the Year ("I Hope"), next up Barrett will perform at the 55th ACM Awards.
