{"id":47021,"date":"2025-12-22T06:18:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=47021"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:56:45","slug":"zach-top-chose-an-independent-label-because-they-had-something-to-prove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/12\/zach-top-chose-an-independent-label-because-they-had-something-to-prove\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Top Chose An Independent Label Because They &#8220;Had Something To Prove&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zach Top\u00a0is one of the country&#8217;s brightest young stars.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He already won the ACM for New Male Artist this year, and he has three Grammy nominations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the story of how he first signed with a label is awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach took a big gamble when he signed with Leo33 back in 2023. &nbsp;The label was brand new, and he became their very first artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, Zach told CEO Katie Dean that he chose Leo33 because &#8220;they had something to prove&#8221; and he felt the same way. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like that paid off for everybody.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tenyeartown\/video\/7573938613759560974\" data-video-id=\"7573938613759560974\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\"> <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@tenyeartown\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tenyeartown?refer=embed\">@tenyeartown<\/a> <p>Katie Dean of Leo33 is signing Zach Top. <a title=\"zachtop\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/zachtop?refer=embed\">#zachtop<\/a> <a title=\"countrymusic\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/countrymusic?refer=embed\">#countrymusic<\/a> <a title=\"nashville\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/nashville?refer=embed\">#nashville<\/a><\/p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Ten Year Town Podcast\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7573938827883694861?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Ten Year Town Podcast<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Top\u00a0is one of the country&#8217;s brightest young stars.\u00a0 He already won the ACM for New Male Artist this year, and he has three Grammy nominations.\u00a0 But the story of how he first signed with a label is awesome. Zach took a big gamble when he signed with Leo33 back in 2023. &nbsp;The label was","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":43293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6868,6869,5566],"class_list":["post-47021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-leo33","tag-record-label","tag-zach-top"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 17:44:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/12\/zach-top-chose-an-independent-label-because-they-had-something-to-prove\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47035,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021\/revisions\/47035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}