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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Gary Nichols
Person · male · United States · born 1978
American musician
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1970s
Biography
English biography152 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1377319447
Biography
Gary Nichols (born August 8, 1978) is an American country music singer. Signed to Mercury Nashville in 2006, Nichols made his debut that year with the release of his single "Unbroken Ground", which reached No. 39 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Following it were the singles "I Can't Love You Anymore" and "Goin' Fast". Nichols never released an album for the label and soon left it.
In April 2010, he replaced Chris Stapleton as the lead singer and guitarist of The SteelDrivers. After seven years with the band during which time the band won the Grammy for 2016 Best Bluegrass Album for The Muscle Shoals Recordings, Gary depart the band in 2017. He released a solo album titled "Field of Plenty" on Merrimack Records the same year. The mostly solo album features Charlie Musselwhite and Spooner Oldham on some tracks.
Games
2006: The song "Goin' Fast" was featured in NASCAR 07.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Gary Nichols head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gary_Nichols_2023.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5525663genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5525663seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Nicholsbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Nichols
Why this artist is in the database
- List of country music performers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Mswbassplayer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q5525663 · MusicBrainz: 6e6d0a84-632a-4107-af76-cdf18fe317cb
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