Ty Herndon has lived a life and career of extreme highs and lows and
celebrated a critical milestone in country music as his record-breaking
debut single “What Mattered Most” turned thirty in 2025. Between 1995
and 2002, Herndon charted 17 singles, including his three number ones
and seventeen top 10 hits, such as “I Want My Goodbye Back,” “Loved Too
Much,” “A Man Holding On,” and “Hands of a Working Man.” He topped the
charts in 1996 with the single “Living in a Moment” and again in 1998
with “It Must Be Love.”
Ty began a triumphant comeback in 2020 with the release of
“Orphans of God,” a duet with Kristin Chenoweth that peaked at number
one on the iTunes charts. That was quickly followed by the release of
JACOB and JACOB (Deluxe Edition), for the first time bringing his full
journey from darkness to light and back again to his music. The album
touched on highly personal themes ranging from addiction, recovery, and
mental fitness to lost love, self-discovery and personal freedom. It
spawned the country radio hits “Till You Get There” and “Dents on a
Chevy,” a duet with Terri Clark that spent 7 weeks atop the independent
country radio charts, becoming the number one independent country single
of 2023.
In 2025, he released the first of a double album career
retrospective entitled THIRTY, featuring guest collaborators on some of
his biggest hits and fan favorites from more than three decades in the
spotlight and on the charts. His memoir, “What Mattered Most,” was
released March 31, 2026 by Dey Street Books.
