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There is nothing stopping Casey Barnes! 2025 kicked off with gold for the Australian Country Music headliner, receiving the Golden Guitar for Contemporary Country Album of the Year for his chart-topping album Mayday. 2024 saw the Gold Coast local dominate the radio charts and take his live show global.

Award winning, 5th studio album Mayday hit airwaves in late May and debuted on the ARIA Charts with #1 Australian Country Album, #2 Australian Album and #2 Overall Country Album a huge accomplishment driven by the fans. Mayday has remained in the ARIA Top 20 Country Charts since release. Singles from the album such as Never Give Up On A Good Time, Boys Like Me and Summer Nights all had their moments topping the Australian Country Radio Charts. However, title track Mayday dominated the charts holding the #1 spot for four consecutive weeks.

Selling thousands of tickets headlining his own shows and a long list of festivals Casey and his band took their electric live show across the country and internationally. Appearances at widely popular festivals such as CMC Rocks, Ridin’ Hearts, Gympie Muster, Meatstock and Over Yonder made for a busy year. But, performing on the main stage of Stagecoach Festival, the largest country music festival in the United States was the icing on the cake.

The list goes on for Casey, 2022 album Light It Up was awarded ARIAs Country Album of the Year after spending 60+ weeks in the top 20, Golden Guitars for Album of the Year and Top Selling Album of the Year and an APRA Album of the Year award. Single God Took His Time On You became ARIA Gold Certified in early 2024, and won the APRA for Most Performed Country Work and went back to back the next year with single Summer Nights. Casey’s catalogue has amassed over 65 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.

Casey has continued to write and prepare for new music in 2025, linking with Nashville heavyweights to produce the next evolution in Casey Barnes’ music.

AWARDS:

ARIA Awards:

-       2022 Best Country Album Winner (Light it Up)

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

Golden Guitar Awards:

-       2025 Golden Guitar Contemporary Country Album of the Year

-       2023 Toyota Album of the Year Winner

-       2023 Top Selling Album of the Year Winner

-       17x 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:

Mayday (2024)

-       #1 ARIA Australian Country Album Chart

-       #2 ARIA Australian Album Chart

-       #2 ARIA Country Album Chart

-       4th Highest Selling Country Album of 2024

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

-       #1 CountryTown Hot50 Airplay Chart

-       #1 CMT Australia Music Video

Miracles

-       #1 CountryTown Hot50 Airplay Chart

Never Give Up On A Good Time

-       #1 CountryTown Hot50 Airplay Chart

Boys Like Me (2023)

-       #1 CountryTown Hot50 Airplay Chart

Summer Nights (2023)

-       #2 CountryTown Hot50 Airplay Chart

Small Town (2022)

-       #1CountryTown Hot50 Airplay Chart

Get To Know Ya (2022)

-       #1CountryTown Hot50 Airplay Chart

God Took His Time On You (2021)

-       #1 TMN CountryTown Hot50 Airplay

-       #9 TMN Australian Artist Airplay chart

-       #43 TMN Hot100 Airplay (all-genres)

-       ARIA Gold Accredited