Mark Wills

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Mark Wills (2005)

Mark Wills (born August 8, 1973 in Cleveland , Tennessee ) is an American country singer .

Career

Mark Wills won a talent competition at the age of seventeen, which earned him several years of engagement in a music club. In 1996 he received a record deal from the Nashville Mercury label. He made his breakthrough with his first CD, Mark Wills . The single Jacob's Ladder reached a top spot on the country charts. In 2003 he lost his Mercury contract. He signed with Equity three years later.

The interpreter of gentle, sensitive country songs failed to achieve great success. Mark Wills never managed to step out of the shadows of his big competitors like Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson .

In spring 2008, Mark Wills signed a record deal with the Hamburg label AGR Television Records, which will release the album "Familiar Stranger" in September.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
1996 Mark Wills - Country38 (23 weeks)
Country
1998 Wish You Were Here US74
platinum
platinum

(56 weeks)US 		Country8 (104 weeks)
Country
2000 Permanently US23
gold
gold

(29 weeks)US 		Country3 (49 weeks)
Country
2001 Loving every minute US93 (3 weeks)
US 		Country10 (22 weeks)
Country
2003 And the crowd goes wild US68 (3 weeks)
US 		Country5 (15 weeks)
Country
2011 Looking for America - Country55 (2 weeks)
Country

More albums

  • 2008: Familiar Stranger

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
2002 Greatest hits US140 (51 weeks)
US 		Country16 (44 weeks)
Country

More compilations

  • 2003: The Best of Mark Wills
  • 2004: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
  • 2005: Live at Billy Bob's Texas
  • 2007: The Definitive Collection
  • 2009: 2nd Time Around

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
1996 Jacob's Ladder
Mark Wills 		- Country6 (20 weeks)
Country
High Low and In Between
Mark Wills 		- Country33 (18 weeks)
Country
1997 Places I've Never Been
Mark Wills 		- Country5 (21 weeks)
Country
1998 I Do (Cherish You)
Wish You Were Here 		US72 (13 weeks)
US 		Country2 (25 weeks)
Country
Don't Laugh at Me
Wish You Were Here 		US73 (5 weeks)
US 		Country2 (28 weeks)
Country
1999 Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here 		US34 (20 weeks)
US 		Country1 (26 weeks)
Country
She's in Love
Wish You Were Here 		US60 (10 weeks)
US 		Country7 (22 weeks)
Country
Back at one
permanently 		US36 (20 weeks)
US 		Country2 (26 weeks)
Country
2000 Almost Doesn't Count
Permanently 		- Country19 (21 weeks)
Country
I Want to Know (Everything There Is to Know About You)
Permanently 		- Country33 (22 weeks)
Country
2001 Loving Every Minute
Loving Every Minute 		- Country18 (26 weeks)
Country
I'm Not Gonna Do Anything Without You
Loving Every Minute 		- Country31 (20 weeks)
Country
2002 19 Somethin '
Greatest Hits 		US23 (20 weeks)
US 		Country1 (34 weeks)
Country
2003 When You Think of Me
Greatest Hits 		- Country28 (20 weeks)
Country
And the Crowd Goes Wild
And the Crowd Goes Wild 		- Country29 (21 weeks)
Country
That's a Woman
And the Crowd Goes Wild 		- Country40 (17 weeks)
Country
2006 Hank
 - Country46 (7 weeks)
Country
2007 Take It All Out on Me
Familiar Stranger 		- Country47 (9 weeks)
Country
Days of Thunder
Familiar Stranger 		- Country50 (13 weeks)
Country

More singles

  • 2008: The Things We Forget
  • 2009: Entertaining Angels
  • 2009: Crazy White Boy
  • 2011: Looking for America
  • 2011: Crazy Being Home
  • 2016: You're My Home (with Beverley Mahood)

The most important awards

year Org. Award title
1998 ACM Top New Male Vocalist

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CMN: Mark Wills: New record label - New date for the album . Retrieved May 30, 2008.
  2. ↑ a b c Chart sources: US
  3. ↑ a b Awards for Music Sales: US

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Wills, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American country singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Tennessee