Alexander Warren Hughes (born September 18, 2000) is an American singer, songwriter,

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r, and influencer. He was a founding member of the collaborative

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group the Hype House from 2019 to 2022. He began independently releasing music in 2021 before getting signed to

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the following year. His 2024 single " Burning Down" from his debut EP, ''You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)'' (2024), was his first song to appear on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. His 2025 single " Ordinary" peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, where it remained for 2 consecutive weeks, and also topped the charts in several other countries, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Early and personal life

Alexander Warren Hughes was born on September 18, 2000, in

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and grew up there. He has two sisters and one brother. His father died from

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when he was nine years old and his mother, who was an alcoholic, kicked him out of the house at age 18, leaving him homeless and frequently sleeping in friends' cars. She died in 2021. Warren began dating Kouvr Annon, a fellow former member of the Hype House whom he met on

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, in 2018. She moved to

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from her parents' home in

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to live with Warren in his car. The couple was engaged on

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in 2022 and they married in June 2024 in

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. He is

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and said that his songs are inspired by

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Career

Social media

Warren started making

videos at age 10 and began posting skateboarding-focused content to

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in May 2015. He was a co-founder and member of the Los Angeles–based

collective the Hype House, the name of which he came up with, in November 2019. By then, he had accrued more than 600 thousand subscribers on his

channel, where he posted prank videos filmed in a first-person style, and 3.8 million followers on his TikTok account. In early 2020, social media users, particularly fans of YouTuber David Dobrik, widely accused Warren of copying Dobrik's video style, mannerisms, and laugh. He was nominated for the Streamy Award for First Person in

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. Also in 2020, Warren became the host of

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's reality competition series ''Next Influencer'' on

, wherein participants lived in a TikTok content house. Warren starred in '' Hype House'',

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's reality series about the titular collective, which premiered in January 2022. His role on the show primarily revolved around his struggles to maintain his popularity on social media and his attempts to do so through his prank videos, including by staging a fake wedding with Annon. By early 2022, Warren's YouTube channel had more than 2.6 million subscribers, while his TikTok account had 14 million followers. He left the Hype House in 2022, which disbanded later that year. He reported there had been a "falling out" within the collective and he was not paid for his contributions. Also in 2022, he created the ''Locked in with Alex Warren'' podcast. By 2024, he had more than 16.3 million followers on TikTok.

Music

Warren says that

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and

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have been inspirations and influenced his decision to become a musician. Benson Boone and

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are also influences of his. In June 2021, Warren independently released his debut single, "One More I Love You", which he began writing at age 13 about the death of his father. It was followed by the singles "Screaming Underwater", released in September of that year, and "Remember Me Happy". In August 2022, Warren signed a record deal with

and began working on a self-produced docuseries, ''I Hope You're Proud'', chronicling the time leading up to his signing. His debut single through the label, "Headlights", was released the following month. His singles "Give You Love", "Change Your Mind", and "Chasing Shadows" were released in June, July, and December 2023, respectively. In February 2024, Warren released the single "Before You Leave Me", which became his first entry on the UK Singles Chart in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 80. His single "Save You a Seat", which was used in more than 144 thousand TikTok videos by late 2024, debuted at number 11 on ''

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''s

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chart in April 2024, his first entry on a ''Billboard'' chart. His single "Carry You Home" was released in June 2024. "Carry You Home" became Warren's second song to chart in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart in April 2025, and also charted on ''Billboard''s Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay,

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, and

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charts. He performed it at the

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that year. His September 2024 single " Burning Down" was his first song to appear on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 69 in October. The song also peaked at number 28 on the UK Singles Chart in March 2025. A remix of the song with

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was released in December 2024. ''You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)'', his debut studio album, was released on September 27, 2024. In February 2025, Warren released the single " Ordinary". It soon became popular on TikTok and, the following month, Warren performed it on the

reality television series '' Love Is Blind''s season 8 reunion episode, which was the show's first musical performance and led to an increase in streams for the song. "Ordinary" peaked at the top of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and also topped the charts in several other countries worldwide, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In the latter country, "Ordinary" became the longest-running number one song on the UK Singles Chart of the 2020s thus far (surpassing " Bad Habits" by

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), as well as the longest-running uninterrupted number one song on the UK Singles Chart by an American male singer of all time. His international Cheaper Than Therapy tour began in February 2025 and is scheduled to run until August 2025. In April 2025, Warren performed an upcoming collaboration with American singer Jelly Roll at the 2025

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Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Other charted songs

Notes

References

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