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Ryan Beaver
Person · male · United States · Hunt County · born 1984
American country music singer
Timeline
1980s
Biography
Biography
Ryan Embry Beaver (born March 17, 1984) is an American country music singer-songwriter from Emory, Texas. Born on March 17, 1984, and growing up in East Texas, Beaver moved South and began his musical career while he was attending Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Beaver currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Career
Wrote the #1 song "Pretty Little Poison" performed by Warren Zeiders. It was the first number one for both of them.
Beaver's first album, Under the Neons, was released on February 27, 2008. The album spawned 3 singles for Texas radio: "I Shoulda Kissed You", "Under the Neons", and "Streets of Austin".
Beaver's second album, Constant, was released February 8, 2011. David Grissom produced the album, with co-write credits for himself, Wade Bowen, Brian Keane, Ben Danaher, and Paul Eason. "For A While", "Hate", and "Nobody Wants to be Alone" were the singles sent to radio respectively. "Hate" became Beaver's highest charting single to date (#2 for 3 weeks) on the Texas Music Chart and earned a "Favorite Song of 2011" nod from galleywinter.com.
Country Weekly described his lyrics as "thoughtful, introspective, and extremely well crafted" in their December 10, 2012, issue.
Beaver's first music video for "How About You" was featured on CMT Pure, CMT.com, Yallwire.com, NoDepression.com among others.
Songwriting
A BMI writer, Beaver co-wrote "Along the Way" and "More Than Willing" with Rob Baird (I Swear It's The Truth released on Carnival Records). He also co-wrote "Day by Day", "Make Or Break Me" and "Leavin' Stephenville" with Kyle Park, the latter two appearing on Park's Make Or Break Me album released in 2011. As of 2017, Beaver is signed to the Nashville-based publishing company, SMACKSongs.
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 | 3 | 16th |
| 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 |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Ryan Beaver head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| 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
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16198441seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Beaverbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Beaver
Why this artist is in the database
- List of country music performers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Jenni Roberts, KOKE FM · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q16198441 · MusicBrainz: 1da37e77-e193-4aea-bedc-9f74217829e9
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