Oliver Tree

A Los Angeles-based vocalist, producer, and sketch comedian, Oliver Tree brings a colorfully satirical, character-driven approach to his indie pop- and hip-hop-informed dance music. He went viral in 2016 with “When I’m Down” before releasing his full-length debut, the Billboard-charting Ugly Is Beautiful in 2020. Welcome to the Internet, a collaborative EP with Little Big, appeared the following year. Tree’s sophomore album, Cowboy Tears, arrived in 2022 and hit number seven on Billboard’s Alternative Albums chart. He scored another non-album hit later that year with “Miss You, a collaboration with German DJ/producer Robin Schulz that heralded his third full-length, 2023′s Alone in a Crowd.
A native of Santa Cruz, Tree emerged in October 2016 as a featured performer on the single “Forget It” by hometown EDM musician Getter. That same month, he released his first collaboration with DJ Whethan, the compassion anthem “When I’m Down.” The song went viral, garnering millions of streams over the next year. A record deal with Atlantic followed, and in mid-2017 Tree issued the solo singles “Welcome to L.A.,” “All I Got,” and “Cheapskate.” Another collaboration with Whethan, “Enemy,” saw release in September 2017 before his own single, “Upside Down,” arrived the first week of 2018. Those tracks landed on his Alien Boy EP, which was released via Atlantic Records that February. He quickly followed with additional singles such as “Movement” and the rock-tinged “Hurt.” 2019 brought singles like “Fuck” and “Miracle Man,” the latter of which was included on Tree’s EP Do You Feel Me? His full-length debut, Ugly Is Beautiful, arrived in June 2020 and included many of Tree’s previously released singles, as well as the spotlight tracks “Cash Machine,” “Let Me Down,” and “Bury Me Alive.” In advance of a 2021 deluxe release of the album, he issued the single “Out of Ordinary” in February.
Welcome to the Internet, a collaborative EP with Russian ravers Little Big, appeared the following year. It included the hit single “Turn It Up” (featuring Tommy Cash). In February 2022, Tree released his sophomore full-length album, the lightly country-influenced Cowboy Tears, which featured production and songwriting contributions by Whethan, Casey Mattson, Travis Barker, and others. It hit number seven on both the Rock and Alternative Albums chart and number 60 on the Billboard 200.
Later that year, Tree teamed up with German DJ/producer Robin Schulz on the hit single “Miss You,” which hit number 84 on the Billboard 100 and served as the lead single off his third full-length, 2023′s Alone in a Crowd. In keeping with Tree’s conceptual, meta-satirical approach, the album found him taking on the persona of fashion designer Cornelius Cummings. The singer then paired with David Guetta for the standalone single “Here We Go Again” before issuing a second track off Alone in a Crowd, the bass heavy alt pop anthem “Bounce.” ~ Marcy Donelson