20-Date Headlining Run Will Bring New Music to Fans Across North America
New Single “Heartbreak” Available Everywhere Now
With the 2019 GRAMMY Awards only days away, five-time nominee Hunter Hayes partnered with the prestigious organization to announce his headlining Closer To You tour exclusively on Grammy.com (READ HERE) The 20-date run kicks off on April 18 in Atlanta, GA and crisscrosses North America, making stops in major markets including Chicago, Los Angeles and more (full list of dates below). Members of Hayes’ mailing list will have early access to tickets beginning February 12 (JOIN HERE) before they go on sale February 15.
The multi-genre superstar also recently shared his brand-new single, “Heartbreak,” available everywhere now (LISTEN HERE). “Built on an energetic acoustic-guitar riff and driven by a propulsive country-pop rhythm” (Rolling Stone), the unexpectedly optimistic track throws “a love-song’s curveball at the traditional breakup narrative” (Paste). Even Hayes’ tour highlights the plot-twist within “Heartbreak”; Closer To You comes straight from the song’s chorus: “If it gets me to you then it ain’t wasted time / With every so close I’m closer to the rest of my life / Another bad first date, another nothing left to say / What I mean is, the way I see it, I’m one heartbreak closer to you.”
In 2018, Hayes released his unflinchingly honest and introspective song “Dear God,” that to date has accumulated over 22 million streams globally. With Rolling Stone calling it an “anthem for the anxious,” Taste of Country also declared: “leave it to Hunter Hayes to release a song that speaks the truth.” He also shared the unfiltered track “One Shot” that Billboard praised for being an “instant party anthem” that’s “highly relatable…with the uplifting, hopeful tone that’s a signature of his music.”
HUNTER HAYES CLOSER TO YOU TOUR DATES
4/18 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre
4/25 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Intersection
4/26 - Chicago, IL - Joe's Live
4/27 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre
5/2 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee
5/3 - Rockford, IL - Coronado Performing Arts Center
5/4 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
5/9 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore Silver Spring
5/10 - Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore Philly
5/11 - Columbus, OH - Express Live!
5/16 - Kansas City, MO - Midland Theatre
5/17 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
5/18 - Grand Junction, CO - Avalon Theater
5/21 - Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre
5/23 - San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom
5/24 - Anaheim, CA - House of Blues Anaheim
5/25 - Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre
5/30 - Cleveland, OH - The Agora Ballroom
5/31 - Lexington, KY - Manchester Music Hall
6/1 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
The Louisiana native has achieved over 1 billion on-demand career streams globally and three chart-topping singles, including his 5x multi-platinum crossover single “Wanted,” which received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Solo Performance in 2013. The massive crossover hit, featured on his 2x multi-platinum debut album Hunter Hayes, is well beyond 120 million streams on Spotify alone and became his first No. 1 single on the country airplay charts; solidifying him as theyoungest solo male artist to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart in over 40 years. The self-titled debut has accumulated over half a billion on-demand streams in the US alone and also includes the platinum-certified No. 1“Somebody’s Heartbreak,” the 2x multi-platinum “I Want Crazy” and the gold-certified singles “Everybody’s Got Somebody But Me” and “Storm Warning.”