Hailey Whitters - Topic

Hailey Whitters is a GRAMMY-nominated, Platinum-selling singer/songwriter from Shueyville, Iowa, and currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, she took home the ACM Award for New Female Artist of the Year and was nominated for New Artist of the Year at the CMA Awards. That same year, she made her late-night TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, soon followed by performances on The Kelly Clarkson Show, NBC's Today and the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards, where she performed her Platinum-certified single “Everything She Ain't.” The song appeared on her breakthrough album Raised, which was named Rolling Stone's No.1 country album of the year and, like her 2020 album The Dream, appeared on over 15 other year-end best-of lists. “Everything She Ain't” marked multiple firsts for Whitters, including her first-ever top 20 single at country radio, her debut on the Billboard Hot 100, and RIAA Platinum certification. Over the last five years, Whitters has toured with Luke Combs, Shania Twain, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church and Luke Bryan, and has performed at festivals such as Coachella, Bonnaroo, and C2C. She has been featured in The New Yorker, New York Magazine and on NPR's Weekend Edition. Outside of recording her own music, Whitters has written songs for Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Alan Jackson, Brandy Clark and more.