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Russell Dickerson (born May 7, 1987) is an American country singer-songwriter from Union City, Tennessee. Dickerson has released one album, Yours through Triple Tigers. It has accounted for three charted singles on Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay: "Yours", "Blue Tacoma", and "Every Little Thing".
Biography
He earned a Bachelor's degree in music from Belmont University and signed with Creative Artists Agency in 2010. In 2011, he released an extended play, Die to Live Again, and opened for David Nail. He toured with Canaan Smith in 2015, and Thomas Rhett in the summer of 2016. Dickerson also joined Billy Currington on the road in 2016, and went out on the road with Lady Antebellum and Darius Rucker on their tour across the United States and Canada beginning July 19, 2018.
In 2015, he released the single "Yours" written by Dickerson, Parker Welling, and Casey Brown. It became the title track to his second extended play, released on January 18, 2016 by Dent Records. The EP debuted at number 14 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, selling 2,700 copies in its first week of release. It launched at number 2 in the iTunes Country Store and number 8 in all genres. In its 39th week on Billboard's Country Airplay chart, Dickerson jumped from number 3 to 1 on the list on January 27, 2018. "Yours" holds the record for the longest journey to number 1 for a solo male's first entry on the survey.
The album, Yours was released on October 13, 2017 and premiered at No. 1 on Billboard's Heat Seeker chart. The album peaked at No. 5 on Top Country Albums dated November 4, 2017, with 12,000 equivalent album units in its first week, and includes five songs co-written by Dickerson, containing an acoustic wedding version of the title track "Yours." Due to the popularity of his hit single, he landed on the iTunes Best of 2015 year-end list, TheKnot.com's "Best Wedding Songs of 2016," and Spotify's #SpotifySpotlight 2016; where he later became one of Spotify's RISE artists. Dickerson made his Grand Ole Opry debut on June 3, 2016.
On October 10, 2016, he signed with Triple Tigers Records.
Dickerson married his wife, Kailey, in May 2013.
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Sales | ||
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| US Country | US | USIndie | ||||
| Yours |
| 5 | 39 | 6 |
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Extended plays
| Title | Extended play details | Peak chart positions | ||
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| US Country | USHeat | USIndie | ||
| Die to Live Again |
| — | — | — |
| Yours, EP |
| 14 | 1 | 9 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Sales | Album | |||||
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| US CountrySongs | US CountryAirplay | US | CAN Country | CAN | ||||||
| 2011 | "That's My Girl" | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |||
| 2012 | "Green Light" | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 2017 | "Yours" | 3 | 1 | 49 | 2 | 96 |
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| Yours | |
| 2018 | "Blue Tacoma" | 5 | 1 | 52 | 2 | 83 |
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| "Every Little Thing" | 5 | 1 | 50 | 1 | — |
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| 2020 | "Love You Like I Used To" | 28 | 29 | — | — | — |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||||
Music videos
| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | "That's My Girl" | N/A |
| 2015 | "Yours" | Kailey Dickerson |
| 2018 | "Blue Tacoma" | Toben Seymour and Kailey Dickerson |
| "Every Little Thing" | Ben Skipworth | |
| 2020 | "Love You Like I Used To" | Toben Seymour and Kailey Dickerson |
Tours
Supporting
- David Nail (2011)
- Canaan Smith (2015)
- Billy Currington (2016)
- Home Team Tour (2017) (Select Dates) with Thomas Rhett
- Life Changes Tour (2018)with Thomas Rhett
- Summer Plays on Tour (2018) with Lady Antebellum and Darius Rucker
- Very Hot Summer Tour (2019) with Thomas Rhett
- Worldwide Beautiful Tour (2020) with Kane Brown