Kimberly Perry is the only original member
Reid Perry has decided to leave The Band Perry, a few months after the trio officially returned to country music. Perry posted the announcement on Instagram on Monday (Oct 13th), thanking fans for their support.
“To the fans, you’ve always been my favorite part of this. I’ve decided to leave TBP,” he shares on Instagram. “I’ll be missing seeing you in the crowd at a Band Perry show, but I’ll be around, managing a new voice I believe in more than anything, Ryan Coleman. For me, it was and will always be about making great country music, with and for the hardworking people who love it and live it. Thank you for every memory. I’ll see you back in the saddle. I wish Kimberly and TBP the best as they move forward into the future.”
In June, the trio announced its return with Reid and sister Kimberly Perry. Her husband, Johnny Costello, replaced their brother Neil.
Kimberly commented on Reid’s post, writing, “Reid! Wishing you the most wonderful successes in your new era! Love you, brother!”
This summer, The Band Perry announced their re-signing to their original label home, Big Machine Label Group via Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment, launching their next chapter with the team who started it all. The band also announced a new management partnership with Make Wake Artists. They also released a remastered edition of their self-titled debut album, which has sold over one million copies in the United States since its 2010 release.
Rising to fame with multi-platinum hits like “If I Die Young,” “Better Dig Two,” and “Done.,” the Grammy-winning trio earned critical and commercial acclaim, selling two and a half million albums, 12 million singles, racking up over one billion streams, earning multiple CMA, ACM, and CMT Music Awards, and six No. 1 country singles.
“If I Die Young” is nine-times platinum, won 2011 CMA Song and Single of the Year awards respectively, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song, spent 53 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and topped both the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Hot AC charts, cementing The Band Perry as one of the most impactful country bands of its generation.
The Band Perry called it quits in 2023 to pursue “individual creative pursuits” after starting as a country hitmaking trio when they signed with Big Machine Label Group/Republic Nashville in 2009. They released two albums with the label, featuring a string of hits that started with “Hip to My Heart” in 2010. In 2015, the group recorded a third album, Heart+Beat, that was set to feature a variety of producers, including RedOne and Diplo, but was never released by Big Machine. Their last single with the label was in 2015 with “Live Forever,” which saw the trio move more towards pop.
The group severed ties with their original country label, Republic Nashville/Big Machine, in 2016 and then again with Interscope in 2017. The Interscope deal saw the band transition from country to pop, but the album, My Bad Imagination, was also never released, with songs like “Comeback Kid” and “Stay In The Dark” not faring well at radio.
In 2014, The Band Perry covered the Glen Campbell hit “Gentle On My Mind” featured on the Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me documentary soundtrack.
The group’s last project was Coordinates EP in 2018, produced by Rick Rubin, and released on their own Artrat label.
The trio’s last batch of music came in 2019 when they released “The Good Life” and “Nite Swim.”
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