Name	Mark Wills
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	8-August-1973
Place of Birth	Cleveland, Tennessee, U.S.
Famous for	Singing

Daryl Mark Williams is an American country music artist, best known professionally as Mark Wills Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label — Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute and And the Crowd Goes Wild — as well as a greatest hits package. In that same timespan, he charted sixteen singles on the Billboard country charts, all of which made the top 40. After leaving Mercury in 2003, he signed to Equity Music Group and charted three more singles. Two of these were later included on his sixth studio album, Familiar Stranger, which was released on the Tenacity label in 2008.

Of his albums, Wish You Were Here is the best-selling, with a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. This album's title track and the late 2002 release "19 Somethin'" both reached number one on the country music charts. Besides these, six more of his singles have reached Top Ten on the charts: debut single "Jacob's Ladder", "Places I've Never Been", "I Do (Cherish You)", "Don't Laugh at Me", "She's in Love" and a cover version of Brian McKnight's "Back at One".

Wills's self-titled debut album was released in 1996 under the production of Carson Chamberlain and Keith Stegall. Its lead-off single, "Jacob's Ladder", went to number 6 on the country charts. "High Low and In Between," the B-side to "Jacob's Ladder," was the next single, reaching number 33. Finishing off the single releases was the number five "Places I've Never Been." Despite the success of its first and third singles, the album did not sell well, and it reached 38 on the country albums charts.

Wish You Were Here was the title of Wills's second album. This was his most commercially successful album, earning a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. The lead-off single "I Do (Cherish You)" and its followup, "Don't Laugh at Me", both reached No. 2 on the country charts, with the former bringing him to the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time. Following the pair of No. 2-peaking songs was the album's title track. Co-written by Bill Anderson, Skip Ewing and Debbie Moore, it became Wills's first Number One hit in 1999. Later that year, the boy band 98 Degrees covered "I Do (Cherish You)" on their album 98 Degrees and Rising. Following "Wish You Were Here" was "She's in Love", the final single from Wish You Were Here, which peaked at No. 7. Also in 1999, Wills received an Academy of Country Music award for Top New Male Vocalist.