Cameron Whitcomb Drops 'Bad Apple'

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Cameron Whitcomb has dropped his new single, "Bad Apple," available now via Atlantic Records HERE. Produced by frequent collaborator Jack Riley (Knox, Grace VanderWaal) and co-written by Whitcomb, Riley, Nolan Sipe, and Cal Shapiro - who wrote Alex Warren's hit song "Ordinary" - the track sees Cameron pushing his intensely personal sound towards an alternative direction, employing the age-old bad apple metaphor to grapple with the idea of how things can be so good, yet so bad at the same time. Watch the official live performance visual which also premiered today HERE.

"Bad Apple" follows Whitcomb's emotionally vivid "Options" and larger-than-life anthem "Hundred Mile High," the latter of which has proven among his biggest hits thus far, earning first-week streams in excess of 1.6M along with a flurry of critical applause from MTV, Entertainment Tonight, UPROXX, Ones To Watch, and ELLE, which named it among "The Best New Songs We Heard In January," writing, "The return of modern folk was written in the stars… Cameron Whitcomb enters the conversation with 'Hundred Mile High.' The banjos pump the song forward, beckoning listeners on a cross-country road trip."

Currently boasting over 7M monthly listeners on Spotify, more than 3M fans across social platforms, and over 300 250M worldwide streams and counting, Whitcomb is well into what is shaping up as a landmark 2025, a remarkably productive year that kicked off with the release of "Medusa (Acoustic)," a new stripped-down rendition of his captivating fan favorite, "Medusa," available now HERE. Featured as one of Billboard's "5 Must-Hear New Country Songs," upon release, the original version of "Medusa" has quickly amassed over 100M global streams and counting.

Recently featured globally on the cover of Apple Music's Today Country and named to both Spotify and Amazon Music's 2025 Artists To Watch lists as well as Shazam's Fast Forward 2025, Whitcomb has spent much of the year traveling on his hugely successful "Hundred Mile High Tour" – the Nanaimo, BC-based artist's biggest US headline run thus far, highlighted by sold-out shows at such famed venues as New York City's Bowery Ballroom. Whitcomb will keep the momentum going with a stacked live schedule that includes further US headline dates as well as the eagerly awaited EU/UK leg of the "Hundred Mile High Tour,".

The nonstop live schedule follows a breakthrough 2024 for the rising artist that featured the release of his remarkable debut EP, Quitter, available everywhere now. Partly inspired by his journey in overcoming addiction, the acclaimed collection - includes profoundly personal singles including "Love Myself" and the soul-searching title track, "Quitter," the latter of which was praised by Billboard as "an anthemic folk track in the mold of Noah Kahan powered by a kick-clap beat and Whitcomb's growling vocal." Now boasting more than 80M global streams, "Quitter," which chronicles the 21-year-old artist's battle to overcome addiction, further made history as Whitcomb's first-ever single to reach the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 – his biggest chart success to date.

One of the most captivating new songwriters of his generation, Cameron Whitcomb turns the most candid details of his real-life experience into songs with a strangely exhilarating power. Hailing from British Columbia's Vancouver Island, Whitcomb left home at age 17 and got a job working on a pipeline, later spending much of his downtime singing karaoke and posting covers on Reddit. When an American Idol executive took note of his undeniable vocal talent, he landed a spot on the show's 20^th season and emerged as a top 20 finalist. Whitcomb then immersed himself in learning to write songs while deep in the process of getting sober. After making his label debut with 2024's "Rocking Chair" – which amassed over 40M combined views across socials prior to its premiere – Whitcomb took off on a fast ascent that soon found him embarking on his first-ever headline run, the sold-out Quitter Tour. Along with gearing up for the Hundred Mile High Tour, Whitcomb is now at work on more new music spotlighting the raw emotional honesty of his one-of-a-kind songwriting.