Multi-platinum country star Corey Kent has accelerated the release of his brand new single Empty Words after overwhelming fan demand, with a teaser for the track racking up more than 20 million views across social media.
Corey Kent
Written by Kent alongside Austin Goodloe, Lydia Vaughan, Matt Roy and Joybeth Taylor, Empty Words pairs stark emotional honesty with his signature country-rock grit. The song lands as a gut-punch reflection on regret and accountability, built around the painful realisation that promises without action ultimately ring hollow.
“As a songwriter, it feels like catching lightning in a bottle when you find that line or double entendre that carries more weight than expected,” Kent explains. “So Empty Words is really special because it says something heavy yet simply. I love that it’s already resonating with fans. Based on their insane reaction, we didn’t want to make them wait so we’ve bumped it up in the release schedule to get it to them even sooner.”
Driven by raw confession, the chorus underlines the emotional fallout: a relationship undone by broken promises and half-hearted apologies, leaving Kent alone to confront the consequences.
The single follows Kent’s current radio track Rocky Mountain Low, a collaboration with Koe Wetzel, which continues to climb the country charts. Both songs mark the first new material since his 2025 EP Poster Child and signal the start of another chapter for the Oklahoma native.
Kent’s momentum has been relentless. Surpassing one billion career streams, he has secured multiple chart-topping hits, including the triple-platinum breakthrough Wild As Her, the gold-certified Something’s Gonna Kill Me and his second No. 1 single This Heart. From Red Dirt roots to Nashville mainstay, his rise has been fuelled by persistence — even working on a paving crew in Texas after losing his first publishing deal — before Wild As Her reignited his trajectory and led to his major label debut album Blacktop.
His sophomore major-label album Black Bandana followed in 2024, further cementing his status as one of modern country’s most driven new voices.
Looking ahead, Kent joins Jason Aldean for the Full Throttle World Tour in Australia and New Zealand this February. In April, he returns to Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, before heading back to the UK in May for a festival appearance at Highways Festival in London.
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