Kaitlin Butts

Kaitlin Butts’ fearless approach to country music is helping her reach new heights. In 2024, Butts released her acclaimed album Roadrunner!. She leaned into her lifelong love of musical theater and dreamed up a modern-day reimagining of the soundtrack to her all-time favorite musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, which ended up on numerous best-of year-end lists. Butts also hit the road hard in 2024, making her Lollapalooza debut as well as opening for Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne and Flatland Cavalry, and trekked across the U.S. on her first-ever coast-to-coast headlining tour.

2025 has been another banner year for the Tulsa-born, Nashville-based artist. In addition to her viral anthem, “You Ain’t Gotta Die (To Be Dead To Me),” amassing over 157 million TikTok views and 67 million global streams, she joined Lainey Wilson on her Whirlwind Tour and was featured in the Country Music Hall of Fame’s latest American Currents exhibition. Butts also joined the 2025 Opry Next Stage Class as well as the CMT Next Women of Country Class of 2025. Showing no signs of slowing down, she just landed a deal with Republic Records launching her next chapter with the Yeehaw Sessions EP available now.