Alan Jackson

Biography

Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American retired country singer-songwriter. He is known for performing a style widely regarded as "neotraditional country", as well as writing many of his own songs. Jackson has recorded twenty-one studio albums, including two Christmas albums and two gospel albums, and has released three greatest-hits albums. Jackson is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide, with 44 million sold in the United States alone.

He has had sixty-six songs appear on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, thirty-five of which claimed the number one spot. Out of fifteen titles to reach the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, nine have been certified multi-Platinum. He is the recipient of two Grammy Awards, sixteen Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, and seventeen Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards. He is a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2001. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017 by Loretta Lynn and into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018.

Jackson is known for songs such as "Chattahoochee", "Livin' on Love", "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)", "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere", and "Remember When". He held his final concert on June 27, 2026, because of his Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease.

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