Daryl Mark Williams (born August 8, 1973) 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.