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Mark Wills is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Rascal Flatts, Bon Jovi, Brian McKnight, Brandy and Ronnie Milsap. Those roots explain a lot about how Mark Wills arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as John Michael Montgomery, Clay Walker, Jessica Andrews, Mark Chesnutt and Phil Vassar, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into 98 Degrees, Reba McEntire, Rascal Flatts and Cascada, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Mark Wills, reaching back through Rascal Flatts and forward to 98 Degrees. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Mark Wills is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label – Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute, and And the Crowd Goes Wild – as well as a greatest hits package. In that same timespan, he charted sixteen singles on the Billboard country charts, all of which made the top 40. After leaving Mercury in 2003, he signed to Equity Music Group and charted three more singles. Two of these were later included on his sixth studio album, Familiar Stranger, which was released on the Tenacity label in 2008.
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Mark Wills connections
Mark Wills grew out of Rascal Flatts, Bon Jovi, Brian McKnight and Brandy, shares an orbit with John Michael Montgomery, Clay Walker, Jessica Andrews and Mark Chesnutt, went on to shape 98 Degrees, Reba McEntire, Rascal Flatts and Cascada. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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