Kip Moore

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Kip Moore (born April 1, 1980 in Tifton , Georgia ) is an American country singer.

Career

Kip Moore's father was a professional golfer and his mother a piano teacher and painter. At school he was mainly interested in sports and played basketball and golf. Golfing also gave him a scholarship to Valdosta State University . There he discovered music for himself and also performed solo and with a band. After graduating from college, he took six months off in Hawaii , where he decided to pursue a music career in Nashville .

While he worked in the country music capital from 2004 for the Abercrombie & Fitch fashion chain , he also successfully offered his songs to musicians like Jake Owen and Thompson Square . He signed a permanent contract as a songwriter in 2008 with Universal Nashville . It then took another four years before he had his own record deal and completed his debut album Up All Night together with producer Brett James . A year earlier he had already made a name for himself in the country charts with the single Mary Was the Marrying Kind . The breakthrough came with the song Somethin '' Bout a Truck , which was released in September 2011. It rose further and further in the country charts until it finally reached number 1, and in the official singles charts it came to number 29. The song was finally awarded double platinum for two million units sold. The debut album then reached number 6 in the album charts in spring 2012 and sold almost half a million times. With Beer Money and Hey Pretty Girl it contained two more chart singles, both of which also received sales awards again.

From 2013 Moore began working on the second album. The singles Young Love and Dirt Road were released in advance, but only placed between position 20 and 40 in the country charts . Since this did not meet his own expectations, he decided with the label to discard the previous work and start all over again. Therefore, it took until the middle of 2015 until the album Wild Ones was finished. The pre-release single I'm to Blame just made it into the official charts, but didn't get past 24th in the country charts. And the album couldn't come close to its debut success either. Even if it reached higher placements in the first week with number 4 in the official and number 2 in the country charts, the sales figures remained far behind those of the first album.

In October 2016, an EP with two studio and three live recordings was released, which in turn was able to place itself in the charts. At the beginning of 2017, More Girls like You, the first song in the preliminary phase of a new album, was released.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2012	Up all night	US6 (66 weeks) US	Country3 (78 weeks) Country
2015	Wild Ones	US4 (4 weeks) US	Country2 (36 weeks) Country
2016	Underground (EP)	US97 (1 week) US	Country12 (1 week) Country
2017	Slowheart	US10 (2 weeks) US	Country3 (6 weeks) Country
2020	Wild World	US36 (... weeks) US	Country5 (... weeks) Country

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2011	Mary Was the Marrying Kind Up All Night (Deluxe Edition)	-	Country45 (19 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Moore, S. Stepakoff, D. Couch
	Somethin '' Bout a Truck Up All Night	US29 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (36 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Moore, D. Couch
2012	Beer Money Up All Night	US51 gold (20 weeks)US	Country7 (32 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Moore, B. Daly, T. Verges
2013	Hey Pretty Girl Up All Night	US41 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country8 (30 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Moore, D. Couch
	Young Love	-	Country26 (20 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Moore, D. Couch, W. Davis
2014	Dirt Road	-	Country35 (18 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Moore, D. Couch, W. Davis
2015	I'm to Blame Wild Ones	US100 (1 week) US	Country24 (30 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Moore, J. Weaver, W. Davis
	Wild Ones Wild Ones	-	Country37 (1 week) Country	Authors: K. Moore, C. DeStefano, Brett James
2016	Running for You Wild Ones	-	Country25 (29 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Moore, T. Verges, B. Daly
2017	More Girls like You Slowheart	US66 (12 weeks) US	Country8 (35 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Moore, SL Olsen, J. Miller, DA Garcia
	Last Shot Slowheart	US53 gold (8 weeks)US	Country12 (30 weeks) Country
2019	She's mine	-	Country29 (... weeks) Country

more publishments

• 2019: The Bull

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Gold / Platinum awards in the RIAA database (USA)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kip Moore on Touring With Miranda Lambert and Why He's a 'Madman When It Comes to Music' , Melinda Newman, Billboard, May 13, 2016
3. ↑ ^{a b} Kip Moore in the US charts (Billboard)

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)
• Kip Moore at Allmusic (English)
• Kip Moore in the Grand Ole Opry