2018–2020: Debut EPs, Hixtape, Vol. 1, and A Rock In October 2018, he released an EP titled
This Ole Boy, which he promoted by joining Wallen's If I Know Me Tour. This was followed in 2019 by the single "
Rednecker", which became Hardy's first song to chart on the
Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, peaking at 23, and a second EP titled
Where to Find Me. To support the EP, Hardy joined Florida Georgia Line on their Can't Say I Ain't Country Tour. Hardy also co-wrote Florida Georgia Line's singles "
Simple" and "
Talk You Out of It", Blake Shelton's singles "
God's Country" and "
Hell Right", "
Drop" by
Dallas Smith,
Chris Lane's single "
I Don't Know About You", and
Jameson Rodgers' debut single "
Some Girls". In September 2019, Hardy released a collaborative
mixtape titled
Hixtape, Vol. 1, He was also featured on
Dallas Smith's single "
Some Things Never Change".
2021–2023: Hixtape, Vol. 2 and The Mockingbird & The Crow In June 2021, Hardy was featured on the
Brantley Gilbert single "
The Worst Country Song of All Time" and a month later was featured on
Dierks Bentley's single "
Beers on Me"; Hardy also co-wrote both songs. Hardy released
Hixtape, Vol. 2 on December 10, 2021. This album included artists such as
Matt Stell,
Jon Pardi,
Jimmie Allen,
Colt Ford,
Randy Houser,
Rhett Akins, and
Lainey Wilson. The successor to
Hixtape, Vol. 1, it was not as well received as its predecessor, and released no songs to mainstream radio.
Morgan Wallen announced his plans for his 2022
Dangerous tour, which included Hardy for almost all of the nearly 50 stops, including stops in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. On August 19, 2022, Hardy released "
Wait in the Truck", featuring
Lainey Wilson, as his first single from his upcoming second studio album. The song peaked on the US
Billboard Hot 100 chart at 23. In October 2022, Hardy announced his second studio album,
The Mockingbird & the Crow, to be released on January 20, 2023, via Big Loud Records with guest vocals from fellow country singers
Morgan Wallen,
Lainey Wilson and
A Day to Remember lead singer
Jeremy McKinnon. Hardy released three songs from
The Mockingbird & the Crow on October 9, 2022: "Truck Bed", "Here Lies Country Music", and "The Mockingbird & the Crow". The full album features half country and half rock music. The first half of the album is more traditional country music with all the song titles stylized in lower case. The song "The Mockingbird & the Crow" features a distinct shift halfway through the song to the rock genre, and the rest of the album continues as rock and hard rock, though still using country themes and imagery in the lyrics. The rock song titles are all stylized in uppercase.
2024–2025: Quit!! and Hixtape: Vol 3: Difftape On January 12, 2024, Hardy released his new single, "
Quit!!" as his first single from his upcoming third studio album. "Quit!!" tells the true story about someone who put a note that said "Quit!!" in a tip jar at one of Hardy's early shows. That same day, Hardy announced that he would be embarking on the
QUIT!! Tour. This tour had fifteen dates.
Kip Moore,
Travis Denning,
Ella Langley and
Stephen Wilson Jr. joined him on the road as supporting acts. A month later on February 9, Hardy released "Rockstar" as his second single from his upcoming third studio album. In March 2024, Hardy announced his third collaborative mixtape, titled
Hixtape: Vol. 3: Difftape, featuring him and other artists covering songs by
Joe Diffie and honoring the fourth anniversary of his death in 2020. Unlike the previous two
Hixtape installments, it is not credited solely as a Hardy album. Hardy teamed up with
Nickelback to film an episode of
CMT Crossroads which featured Nickelback's "
Savin' Me" and "
Animals". It also featured Hardy's "
Truck Bed" and "
Give Heaven Some Hell". They also performed a rendition of Hardy's song "Sold Out". They finished the episode with a mashup of both artists' songs titled, "
Rockstar". In April 2024, Hardy announced that in collaboration with
Dr. Dre and
Snoop Dogg that he had recorded a version of their 1994 song "
Gin and Juice". He also announced that he had filmed a short film with them for the song. This was done to promote Dre and Snoop's Gin & Juice alcoholic beverage. On May 17, 2024, Hardy released his third single, "
Psycho" and announced that his third studio album,
Quit!! would be released on July 12, 2024 via Big Loud Records and Big Loud Rock. The album features guest appearances from
Chad Smith, Knox, and
Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst. In August 2024, Hardy was featured on "Hide My Gun" from
Post Malone's country album,
F-1 Trillion, which he also co-wrote.
2025–present: Hardy (Live from Red Rocks) and Country! Country! On October 14, 2024, Hardy announced via his Instagram that he would be recording both nights of his tour at
Red Rocks Amphitheatre so that he could release a live album in early 2025.
Hardy (Live from Red Rocks) was released on February 7, 2025. The album contains live versions of songs from his three studio albums, along with a cover of Blake Shelton's "
God's Country", which Hardy co-wrote. In February 2025, Hardy teamed up with
Nate Smith for Smith's song "Nobody Likes Your Girlfriend", which charted on the Hot Country Songs chart. On March 14, 2025, Hardy partnered with
Amazon Music for a new album,
Hardy (Amazon Music Songline), as a part of Amazon Music's new performance series, Songline. The eight song album contains re-imagined versions of select songs from all of his studio albums, including a live performance of "Live Forever", plus a cover of
The 1975's "
Love It If We Made It", which was covered by Hardy back in 2024 as an Amazon Music Original. In April 2025, Hardy announced a new EP,
Country!, which released on May 2, 2025, along with the first two songs, "
Favorite Country Song" and "Buck on the Wall" which were released on April 11. Hardy is also made his official debut at the Grand Ole Opry on April 29, 2025, following his unofficial debut back in 2023. This marks the sixth collaboration between the two artists following "He Went to Jared", "Turn You Down", "Goin' Nowhere", "Red", and "In the Bible". On July 30, 2025, Hardy announced his fourth studio album,
Country! Country!. It was released on September 26, 2025. The next day, on August 1, Hardy released the first single from
Country! Country!, "Bottomland". On August 20, 2025, Hardy teased the third track off the album, "Bro Country" featuring singer-songwriter
Ernest. A few days later it was announced that "Bro Country" would be released August 29, 2025, as the next single from the album. In 2026, Hardy will embark on his headlining "Country! Country! Tour" across North America, with support from
Cameron Whitcomb,
Tucker Wetmore,
Mitchell Tenpenny,
Muscadine Bloodline, and McCoy Moore. On January 30, 2026, Hardy released the song "McArthur" featuring an ensemble of
Tim McGraw,
Eric Church,
Morgan Wallen, and himself. In the song, each musician impersonates a different member of the fictional McArthur family. McGraw is John McArthur, a farmer with a mule and a plow who’s now just a "whisper in the wind through the pine trees.” Church portrays his son, Junior, killed in Vietnam. Hardy embodies Jones McArthur, who raises an heir more invested in money than dirt. And Wallen voices Hunter McArthur, the money-focused son haunted by second thoughts over selling the family’s acreage. In the chorus, the song poses one key question: "When you pass on, what you gonna pass down?" == Awards ==