Mark Wills

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Daryl Mark Williams (born August 8, 1973), known professionally as Mark Wills, is an American country music artist.

Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label – Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute, and And the Crowd Goes Wild – as well as a greatest hits package.

In that same timespan, he charted sixteen singles on the Billboard country charts, all of which made the top 40.

After leaving Mercury in 2003, he signed to Equity Music Group and charted three more singles.

Two of these were later included on his sixth studio album, Familiar Stranger, which was released on the Tenacity label in 2008. Of his albums, Wish You Were Here is the best-selling, with a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.

This album's title track and the late 2002-early 2003 release "19 Somethin'" both reached No. 1; on the Hot Country Songs charts.

Besides these, six more of his singles have reached top 10 on the chart: his debut single "Jacob's Ladder", "Places I've Never Been", "I Do (Cherish You)", "Don't Laugh at Me", "She's in Love", and a cover version of Brian McKnight's "Back at One".

Two songs originally recorded by Wills, "Somebody" and "What Hurts the Most", were later hit singles for Reba McEntire and Rascal Flatts, respectively. On December 21, 2018, Wills was invited to become the 218th member of the Grand Ole Opry.

He was inducted on January 11, 2019.

Early life

Wills was born in Blue Ridge, Georgia.

Personal life

In 1996, Wills married his wife, Kelly, whom he met at Atlanta's music club, Buckboard. They have two daughters.

In November 2010, Wills was hospitalized for surgery after his large intestine ruptured. He was told that had he waited any longer to seek medical help, he would have died.

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Career

Wills performed in garage bands as a youth, taking inspiration from rock bands like Bon Jovi. However, he began to be involved in country music during his youth. At the age of 17, he won a local talent competition in Marietta, Georgia, and after winning the competition, he began to perform locally. He began working as a demo singer in Atlanta, Georgia, before doing the same in Nashville, Tennessee. While in Nashville, record producers Carson Chamberlain and Keith Stegall, who helped him sign a recording deal with Mercury Records Nashville, were discovered.

Wills' self-titled debut album was released in 1996 under the direction of Chamberlain and Stegall. Its lead-off single, "Jacob's Ladder," debuted at number six on the country charts, despite being at number six. The B-side to "Jacob's Ladder," "His Low and In Between," was the next single, achieving number 33. The number-five "Places I've Never Been" was the single release, rounding off the singles. Despite the success of its first and third singles, the album did not do well, and it peaked at number 38 on the country albums charts.

Wills' second album, Wish You Were Here, was his most commercially profitable, receiving a gold medal from the Recording Industry Association of America. "I Do (Cherish You)" and its sequel, "Don't Laugh at Me," debuted on the country charts for the first time, with the former taking him to the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time. The album's title track was followed by two of the country's highest-peaking songs. It was written by Bill Anderson, Skip Ewing, and Debbie Moore, and it became Wills' first top-one country hit in 1999. The boy band 98 Degrees covered "I Do (Cherish You)" on their album 98 Degrees and Rising later this year. "She's in Love," the last single from Wish You Were Here, which debuted at number seven, was the sequel to "Wish You Were Here." Wills was named a Best New Male Vocalist award by the Academy of Country Music in 1998.

In MGM's animated remake of Tom Sawyer, he portrayed Huckleberry Finn. Wills and Lee Ann Womack, who plays Becky in the film, perform the singing voice in the film, as a duet in the end title song "Never Ever and Forever."

Wills' eighth chart entry was a recreation of R&B singer Brian McKnight's 1998 hit song "Back at One." Wills' debut in early 2000 and his first single from his third album, Permanently, was a top-five country hit for him. This album was Wills' highest debut on the country charts, peaking at number three. This time of Brandy's 1999 hit "Almost Doesn't Count" after "Back at One" was another R&B cover. This issue made it to the top 20, and "I Want to Know (Everything There Is to Know About You)" was followed by "I Want to Know" which reached number 33. The RIAA has the RIAA's permanent gold medalist. This album was entirely produced by Carson Chamberlain, who had left Mercury in 2000.

Wills' fourth studio album and its lead-off single Loving Every Minute was the name of his fourth studio album and its lead-off single. This song, co-written by Michael White, peaked at number 18, but the album's other single, "I'm Not Gonna Do It Without You," which was also on O'Neal's debut album Shiver, debuted at number 18. "Somebody" was also included on this album, and Reba McEntire's 2001 album Room to Breathe became a number one hit on the radio in 2004.

"19 Somethin," Wills' highest chart hit, was announced in late 2002. In early 2003, it ranked first in the country charts and stayed at number one for six weeks. The song debuted at number 23 in his first Hot 100 debut, peaking at number 23. This was the first of two newly recorded songs on his 2003 greatest hits album, which relaunched all of his chart singles except "High Low and In Between" and "Everything There Is to Know About You)". "When You Think of Me," the other new song on this album, was a number-28 country hit in early 2003. These two new songs with Chris Lindsey were created by Wills.

And the Crowd Goes Wild, his fifth studio album, came later in 2003. This was his first full studio album, which he co-produced, and he was collaborating with Chris Lindsey on this one. Despite the fact that the album debuted at number five on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, the two singles only reached the middle and lower top-40 regions on the Hot Country Songs chart. The lead-off single, which debuted at number 29 on the country charts, was Jeff Steele-penned country rock and country rap-generated title track. Following it was "That's a Woman" which ultimately ended at number 40. This album featured a song that later became a number-one hit for another artist, "What Hurts the Most," which was a number one country and adult contemporary hit for the group Rascal Flatts when it was released on their 2006 album Me and My Gang. This album appeared on Jo O'Meara in 2005 and Cascada in 2007. In 2006, Wills' own version became a minor hit on the Hot Digital Songs charts. A cover of Ronnie Milsap's hit "Prisoner of the Highway" was also included on And the Crowd Goes Wild, which was released as a duet with Milsap.

Wills left Mercury in 2004 due to And the Crowd Goes Wild's poor results. Wills also produced a cover of Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" for the southern rock tribute album Southern Rock Country Style in 2004. He did not perform again until country singer Clint Black was signed to his Equity Music Group label in 2006. "Hank" was Wills' first commercial appearance on the label, peaking at number 49 and not appearing on an album. Familiar Stranger, the label's first album, was originally scheduled for release in September 2007, but it was repeatedly postponed due to the poor chart success of "Take It All Out on Me" and "Days of Thunder." Tenacity Records acquired the album and released it in 2008, issuing "The Things We Forget" as its third single. "Entertaining Angels" was Willie Mack's co-written following this album. He appeared on "Crazy White Boy," written by Brett James and Blair Daly in late 2009. In July 2009, Wills released their compilation album 2nd Time Around, which includes re-recordings of several Mercury singles.

Wills released "Looking for America," a new single written by Bernie Nelson, Philip Douglas, and Jeremy Bussey in January 2011. It was the title track to his 2011 album of the same name, released by Big Red Records and Tenacity Records on June 21, 2011.

Vince Gill welcomed him to become the 218th member of the Grand Ole Opry on December 21, 2018, and he was inducted on January 11, 2019.

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