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Kicking 2024 off with his first ARIA Gold Record for single God Took His Time On You, Casey Barnes is anticipating this to be his biggest year to date.

Casey’s brand new album ‘Mayday’ hit airwaves in late May and debuted on the ARIA Charts with #1 Australian Country Album, #2 Australian Album, #2 Overall Country Album and #11 Overall Album a huge accomplishment driven by the fans. Leading into the album singles Miracles, Boys Like Me, Never Give Up On A Good Time and Summer Nights climbed to the #1 position in the Australian CountryTown Airplay Charts, with Mayday holding the top spot for four weeks. Summer Nights was also awarded the Most Played Country Work at this years APRA Awards.

Casey and his bands electric live show has seen them perform at this years CMC festival, CMA Fest in Nashville, and Stagecoach, the largest Country Music Festival in the world. To celebrate the album, Casey will be touring Australia with a plethora of headline shows and festivals.

These 2024 highlights follow on from a massive 2023 for Casey, picking up Golden Guitar Award wins for Album of the Year and Top Selling Album of the Year for his 2022 album, Light It Up, along with the APRA Award for Most Performed Country Work for God Took His Time On You. Light It Up also took out the 2022 ARIA Award for Best Country Album. The album debuted at #1 on the ARIA Australian Country Album chart and #3 on the All-Genre Australian Album chart, and spent over twenty months in the Top 20 of the ARIA Australian Country Album chart. Casey’s catalogue has amassed over 60 million combined streams world wide and his music is a fixture on television both in Australia (Light It Up used for the AFL season launch TV advertisements and Get To Know Ya featuring on the Farmer Wants A Wife launch campaign) and the U.S. (We’re Good Together on Live With Kelly and Mark; and Never Give Up On A Good Time featuring in the CBS promos for NYE Live: Nashville’s Big Bash.

AWARDS:

ARIA Awards:

- 2022 Best Country Album Winner (Light it Up)

- 2020 Best Country Album Nominee (Town of a Million Dreams)

Golden Guitar Awards:

- 2023 Toyota Album of the Year Winner

- 2023 Top Selling Album of the Year Winner

- 14x Golden Guitar Award Nominee

 APRA Awards:

- 2024 Most Performed Country Work Winner (Summer Nights)

- 2023 Most Performed Country Work Winner (God Took His Time On You)

- 2022 Most Performed Country Work Nominee (Come Turn Me On)

- 2021 Most Performed Country Work Nominee (A Little More)

 AIR Awards:

- 2022 Independent Song of the Year Nominee (God Took His Time on You)

- 2021 Best Independent Country Album Nominee (Town of a Million Dreams)

Gold Coast Music Awards:

- 22 x Gold Coast Music Award Nominee

- 2020, 2021 and 2022 Artist of the Year Winner

- 2022 GCMA Hall of Fame Inductee

Groundwater Country Music Festival:

- 2019 People’s Choice Award Winner

RECENT RELEASES:

Albums:

Light It Up (2022)

- Released Friday 25th February 2022

- #1 ARIA Australian Country Album Chart

- #3 on the All-Genre Australian Album chart

- 60 weeks ARIA Australian Country Chart Top 20

Town of a Million Dreams (2020)

- #1 ARIA Australian Country Album Chart

- #2 ARIA Country Album Chart

- #16 ARIA Album Chart

- 108 weeks ARIA Australian Country Chart Top 20

Singles: 

Mayday