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Chayce Beckham on His Chart-Topping ’23’ & How His Story-Expanding New Album Highlights ‘The Things I Love in Country Music’

Billboard’s April Country Rookie of the Month Chayce Beckham on his breakout hit "23," his new album 'Bad for Me' and his 'American Idol' experience.

In 2021, California native Chayce Beckham joined the lineage of artists whose talent captured viewers’ ears and hearts during his winning run on American Idol. Many of the songs on the project, including the title track, as well as “Devil I’ve Been” and “Addicted and Clean” offer unflinching honesty, drawing from his own struggles just weeks prior to his American Idol audition. A song on his new album, “Mama,” which he wrote back in 2021 and performed on Idol, is a musical mea culpa and apology that faces his story directly on lines such as “All the pain you’ve felt, I hope you never have to feel it again/ And the night that you picked me up from jail and I swore I’d never do it again.”

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