It took Walker Hayes over a decade to break into the country mainstream, but when he finally landed a Top Ten hit in 2017 with "You Broke Up with Me," it hit with the force of an explosion and proved an appropriate song title, since its parent album was called boom. Hayes consolidated this breakthrough with the clever "Fancy Like," which reached number one on Billboard's Country charts in 2021, a hit that was the cornerstone of his third record, Country Stuff the Album. He reached the charts again in 2023 with "Good with Me," which appeared on the short but sweet New Money. An EP, Sober Thoughts, arrived in April 2024.
