Grammy-nominated country artist Ty Herndon has signed a new three-album deal with Club44 Records, launching the partnership with a reimagined duet of his 1995 breakout hit “What Mattered Most” featuring multi-platinum, two-time GRAMMY® award-winning superstar LeAnn Rimes. The single marks the first release from Herndon’s forthcoming album THIRTY, a career-spanning celebration of his 30 years in country music. The album’s release date will be announced later this summer.
The newly released 30th Anniversary Edition of “What Mattered Most,” now reimagined as a heartfelt duet with LeAnn Rimes, brings new emotional resonance to the song’s timeless message about love, loss, and reflection and captures a moment more than thirty years in the making.
“Recording this song with LeAnn was nothing short of magical,” said Herndon. “She and I go back three decades — we were touring together in the ’90s when her career exploded and she used to come out on stage and sing this song with me. So all these years later, re-recording it as a duet, was a full-circle moment I’ll never forget. Her voice brings depth and beauty to the song, which is breathtaking. We’ve both lived a lot of life since then, and I think you can hear that in every note.”
THIRTY will feature newly recorded versions of Herndon’s most iconic hits, reinterpreted as collaborations with an all-star lineup of musical guests. The project captures the essence of a career built on resilience, reinvention, and raw emotion, offering both a tribute to Herndon’s past and a powerful step forward.
The release also marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter with Club44 Records, a Nashville-based label known for its commitment to vocal excellence and genre-crossing artistry. Herndon’s next three albums—including THIRTY—will be released under the Club44 banner.
About Ty Herndon: Ty Herndon has lived a life and career marked by extraordinary highs and lows, and in 2025, he celebrates a landmark moment as his breakthrough debut single “What Mattered Most” turns 30. Between 1995 and 2002, Herndon charted 17 singles, including three No. 1 hits and a string of Top 10 favorites such as “I Want My Goodbye Back,” “Loved Too Much,” “A Man Holding On,” and “Hands of a Working Man.” He reached the top of the charts again in 1996 with “Living in a Moment” and in 1998 with “It Must Be Love.” Over the following decade, Herndon continued to break new ground with the release of a Greatest Hits collection and the albums Right About Now, Lies I Told Myself, and the Grammy-nominated Journey On. In 2015, he made history as the first major male country artist to come out as gay and has since released the acclaimed albums House on Fire and Got It Covered, as well as launching the annual Concert for Love & Acceptance. His 2022 album JACOB produced the country radio singles “Till You Get There” and “Dents on a Chevy,” a duet with Terri Clark that spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the independent country charts, becoming the top independent country single of 2023. For more information, visit www.tyherndon.com.
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