Tucker Wetmore, Explained: From 'Wine Into Whiskey' to the Brunette World Tour

Tucker Wetmore is a 26-year-old country singer from Kalama, Washington, whose 2024 single “Wine into Whiskey” gave him his first Billboard Hot 100 entry and set up a fast rise through a debut album, an ACM Award, and a headlining world tour. As of Sunday morning, 27 September 2026, he’s also the subject of a separate story: multiple reports say he’s dating fellow country star Ella Langley, days after the two were seen leaving a Nashville awards show together. Here’s who he is, how he got here, and what’s actually confirmed about the dating story.

Who is Tucker Wetmore?

He’s a Nashville-based country artist, born Tucker Payson Wetmore on November 5, 1999, in the small town of Kalama, Washington. He graduated from Kalama High School in 2018, where he played football, and went on to study business and information technology at Montana Technological University in Butte, Montana, while also playing wide receiver for the school’s football team. A career-ending football injury redirected him toward music, and he moved to Nashville in 2020 to pursue it full time, releasing his first promotional singles the following year.

How did “Wine into Whiskey” launch his career?

“Wine into Whiskey,” released in 2024, was Wetmore’s breakthrough: it became his first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 68, and reached No. 16 on the Country Airplay chart. It introduced the sound he’s built his career on — polished hooks and heartland-rock-leaning production layered under conversational, often self-deprecating storytelling. That same year, “Wind Up Missin’ You” served as his official country-radio debut single, climbing further than his breakout track to No. 31 on the Hot 100 and No. 6 on Country Airplay. His debut EP, “Waves on a Sunset,” followed that October.

What has Tucker Wetmore released since his debut single?

His momentum carried into a full-length debut: “What Not To,” released April 25, 2025, which opened at No. 15 on the Billboard 200 and No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart. The album produced two more radio hits, “3,2,1” and “Brunette” — the song that later lent its name to his current tour. He followed it with the standalone single “Proving Me Right” in December 2025, then a summer-toned EP, “Sunburn Mixtape,” on July 31, 2026. In between, he picked up his first major industry trophy, winning the Academy of Country Music’s award for New Male Artist of the Year in 2026.

What is the Brunette World Tour?

The Brunette World Tour is Wetmore’s first headlining run, a 22-plus-stop trek that opened in the US in February 2026 before crossing to the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe that April, then returning to North America for a summer-into-fall leg. Dates have run through arenas and clubs in cities including Boston, New York, Zurich, Cologne, Dublin and Glasgow, with a scheduled stop at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre in late October 2026 marking his debut at that venue. The tour’s Chicago stop, at the Salt Shed on Friday, 18 September 2026, sold out its roughly 5,200-capacity room; coverage of the show described a nearly 90-minute set mixing his radio hits with acoustic moments and a few unexpected covers. As of this writing, the tour is still in progress, so remaining dates and any additions should be checked against the current listing before making plans.

Is Tucker Wetmore dating Ella Langley?

Multiple entertainment-news reports said on 23 September 2026 that Wetmore is dating fellow country singer Ella Langley, describing the two as having quietly dated for close to a year — but as of this writing, neither Wetmore nor Langley has confirmed the relationship publicly. The reports followed the pair being seen leaving the Nashville Songwriter Awards together on Tuesday, 22 September, at the Ryman Auditorium. According to those reports, the two first fueled speculation back in December 2025, when they were photographed together in the British Virgin Islands. Because this rests on unnamed sourcing rather than a statement from either artist, it should be read as a reported story, not a confirmed fact.

Langley, for context, is a country singer-songwriter from Hope Hull, Alabama, who broke through with the Riley Green duet “You Look Like You Love Me” and has spent much of 2026 in the spotlight herself: her single “Choosin’ Texas,” from her album “Dandelion,” set the all-time record for most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, a streak that was still active and being updated week to week as of late September 2026.

What’s next for Tucker Wetmore?

With the Brunette World Tour still running into the fall and an ACM Award already on the shelf, Wetmore’s near-term story is mostly about finishing what’s in motion rather than starting something new. No follow-up studio album has been announced beyond the “Sunburn Mixtape” EP, and neither he nor Langley has said anything on the record about their relationship. Readers who want the tour schedule or chart-record details confirmed to the day should treat both as current as of late September 2026, not later.

Between a chart-climbing debut album, a sold-out arena tour, and now a dating story involving one of country music’s biggest chart-toppers, Tucker Wetmore has had one of the more eventful 2026s in Nashville, even before accounting for whichever of these threads moves next.