Country music star Cody Johnson self-released six albums, including Gotta Be Me, which debuted at number two on Billboard’s Country chart before releasing his first major-label album, Ain’t Nothin’ to It, in January 2019. Cody’s career started in 2006, when he recorded a live album, Live and Rocking, at Shenanigans and Confetti’s Club in Huntsville. Their first professionally produced album, Six Strings One Dream, was released in September 2009. Three singles from the album reached the top 10 of the Texas charts. Johnson then won the 2011 Texas Regional Music Award for New Male Vocalist of the Year. Sooner after, Johnson left his job with the Texas Dept of Criminal Justice to focus on music full-time. Johnson’s fifth album, Cowboy Like Me, was released in January 2014 and debuting at number 25 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. Gotta Be Me, was released in August 2016 and debuted at No. 2 on the Country Albums chart, It was Johnson’s most successful release yet, achieved without major label support or widespread radio play. Ain’t Nothin’ to It, was released in January 2019 and includes the single “On My Way to You”, which was his first Top 40 hit on Country Airplay. In 2019, Johnson collaborated with Brooks & Dunn on a new version of their hit song “Red Dirt Road” which appears on their album Reboot. Johnson’s eighth album, Human: The Double Album, was released in October 2021.
