BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A singer who in the late 2000s and early 2010s had songs that topped the Adult Pop Chart will perform at Musikfest Cafe at ArtsQuest Center, it was announced.
Eric Hutchinson, whose 2008 song “Rock & Roll” topped that chart, and who also hit the chart with 2009’s “OK, It’s Alright With Me” and 2012’s “Watching You Watch Him,” will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 23.
Tickets, at $35-$55, went on sale Thursday at the SteelStacks website and the box office at 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem.www.Steelstacks.org
Tickets, at $35-$55, went on sale Thursday at the SteelStacks website and the box office at 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem.
Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of Hutchinson signing to Madonna's Maverick Records for his debut album. But that label shut down before the disc was released.
Hutchinson instead independently recorded and released "Sounds Like This" in 2007, and it won the support of gossip blogger Perez Hilton and hit Top 5 on iTunes — the highest-charting album by an unsigned artist in iTunes history.
It also debuted at No. 1 on Billboard Heatseekers chart.
Delayed success
The album was picked up by Warner Bros. Records, who released it in May 2008.
Hutchinson's 2008 single "Rock & Roll" reached gold sales. The album produced a second successful single, "OK, It’s Alright With Me.”
He released his sophomore album, "Moving Up, Living Down," in 2012, and its first single, "Watching You Watch Him" debuted on the season premiere of the TV show "Grey's Anatomy."
His third album, "Pure Fiction," was released in 2014 and its song "Tell the World" was used as the theme song for short-lived NBC sitcom "Growing Up Fisher" and the song for the first Microsoft Windows 10 commercial.
Hutchinson has released five albums since, with the latest being 2022's "Sing Along!"
Hutchinson opened for Kelly Clarkson at Allentown Fair in 2009, and previously played ArtsQuest Center in 2016.
