Aidan Bissett (born William Aidan Bissett, February 15, 2002) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist whose pandemic-era TikTok following turned into a major-label deal with Capitol Records and independent label 10K Projects before he had finished high school. Raised between Portland, Oregon and Tampa, Florida, Bissett built a catalog of guitar-driven, nostalgia-soaked indie pop anchored by the 2020 viral hit "More Than Friends," graduated from opening slots for Lauv and Valley to headline tours of his own, and released his debut studio album, shut up and love me, in July 2025 before stepping into arena-level support dates on LANY's 2026 Soft World Tour.
Aidan Bissett was born on February 15, 2002. Biography aggregators disagree on where: Famous Birthdays lists Portland, Oregon, while Apple Music and Last.fm list Tampa, Florida as the hometown most closely tied to his public identity, a discrepancy that reflects a family that moved across the country more than once. His father, Paul Bissett, is a scientist and co-founder of a company called Center Connect Development; his mother, Juliet, is a psychiatric nurse. He has a sister, Kyra, who works as a Los Angeles-based fashion stylist, and a brother, Dylan, who has served as an assistant tour manager on Aidan's own shows.
The family moved from Tampa to Portland when Bissett was five. It was there, around second grade, that he got his first electric guitar and started lessons, beginning, as he tells it, with AC/DC's "Back in Black." Oregon exposed him early to his father's classic-rock records (Led Zeppelin, AC/DC) alongside the Pacific Northwest's alternative and indie-pop undercurrents, a combination that would eventually define his sound. He played football for seven years, six of them on a team in Oregon, and was serious enough about it to draw interest as a potential college recruit before he lost his taste for the sport and put his energy into music instead.
The family relocated back to Tampa when Bissett was around 15, a move he has repeatedly described as socially difficult. Dropping into an all-boys Catholic high school, Jesuit High School in Tampa, mid-adolescence meant trying to break into friend groups that had already formed years earlier, and he has cited that isolation as a major catalyst for turning inward toward music. He formed a first band, Offshore, with high school friends around that age, but it dissolved when members prioritized sports over rehearsals. He continued playing varsity football at Jesuit, and had been scouted as a potential college recruit, before pivoting fully toward songwriting.
He graduated from Jesuit High School in 2021, the same year Capitol Records announced his signing, a fact the school's alumni notes later commemorated. Jesuit's alumni newsletter also recorded that his younger brother Dylan followed him to the University of Southern California, describing a small "pipeline" of graduates heading there, which indicates Bissett himself enrolled at or was accepted to USC around 2021, weighing it against Nashville's Belmont University before choosing to prioritize his music career. Before any of this, he picked up a handful of small acting credits, including "Brandon" in the TV series The Lerners (2019), "Peter Jones" in the short film Injustice (2019), and "Michael" in the short Mr. Peterson (2017).
Bissett's rise began during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020. Newly cut off from the peer groups he had struggled to join after the move to Tampa, he taught himself production through online courses and began posting covers and song snippets to TikTok. He has called the pandemic, paradoxically, "a blessing" for his creative confidence, since his high school classmates weren't around to potentially mock a new pursuit. His debut single, "Different," came out in July 2020 and quickly passed 100,000 Spotify streams, an early signal of momentum.
The real catalyst was TikTok-famous bassist and singer Blu DeTiger, who discovered Bissett's early posts and connected him with a producer, enabling the production of "Different" and setting the template for the singles that followed. Bissett has credited DeTiger and the broader online music community directly: "Without the help of other artists on TikTok I wouldn't be where I am today." His true viral moment arrived with "More Than Friends," released in September 2020, a breezy end-of-summer indie-pop track that sent TikTok into a frenzy and would go on to accumulate roughly 97 million Spotify streams, still by far his most-streamed song.
By spring 2021 he had around 110,000 TikTok followers, enough for word of mouth to reach major labels. He has described the moment a label executive appeared on a Zoom call as surreal: "Next thing I know, I have the executive vice president of Capitol Records sitting on this Zoom and I'm like, 'Wait a second...this wasn't supposed to be real.'" Capitol Records announced his signing in mid-April 2021, while he was still finishing his senior year at Jesuit High School; none of his teachers or classmates knew about the deal until it went public. His first release under the label, "Communication," was recorded with producer Verzache and landed on major Spotify playlists including New Music Friday.
Bissett's contract runs through Capitol Records in partnership with the independent label 10K Projects, not the electronic-oriented UMG imprint Astralwerks, which has occasionally been misattributed to him. Every credit on his catalog, including his 2025 debut album, lists 10K Projects/Capitol Records as the release imprint. 10K Projects is also the label behind Artemas, meaning Bissett and Artemas, while not documented collaborators, sit on the same roster within the broader Capitol/10K Projects structure.
AllMusic's synopsis of Bissett frames him succinctly as making "hooky and stylishly youthful guitar-based indie pop marked by his self-effacing sense of humor and laid-back vibe." His records sit at the intersection of 2010s indie rock, bedroom pop and mainstream alt-pop polish, built around guitar melodies layered with synths and dreamy vocals; his 2025 debut leaned further into 1980s new-wave textures with a clear debt to The 1975.
Across years of interviews, Bissett has been remarkably consistent about his influences. He names Wallows as the single most formative one, crediting a small, roughly 75-to-100-person hotel-basement Wallows show, one of the band's first ever, as the moment he decided he wanted a life in music. He cites Wallows' Nothing Happens as a favorite album alongside Tame Impala's Currents, Tyler, the Creator's IGOR, and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Californication. He has also repeatedly named COIN (whose frontman Chase Lawrence became a mentor, collaborator and personal friend), Role Model, Dayglow, Verzache, boy pablo, The Kinks, The Shins, Mac DeMarco and Djo as touchstones, describing his own compositional method as a deliberate borrowing of textures: "guitar melodies like Wallows, tape delay like Dayglow, 808's like Verzache and Role Model, and synths from Coin and Tame Impala."
Lyrically, his catalog stays close to relationships and identity: unrequited love, situationships, heartbreak, and the anxious in-between spaces of young adult romance. Reviewers have compared the emotional architecture of shut up and love me to Carly Rae Jepsen's Emotion, praising its attempt to render romantic and physical exploration with nuance rather than surface-level bravado. His own framing of the mission has held steady since his earliest interviews: "I'm just trying to capture the teenage youth and make it as relatable as possible in 3-and-a-half minutes or less." Trade coverage has repeatedly slotted him, alongside acts like Wallows and COIN, into the broader Gen Z guitar-pop heartthrob archetype.
Bissett's catalog is built almost entirely on singles and short EPs, culminating in his 2025 debut full-length. His early independent run included "Different" (July 2020), "Worst Girls of All Time" (2020) and the breakout "More Than Friends" (September 2020). His Capitol Records era opened with "Communication" (April 2021), followed by "Dumped" (September 2021) and "So High" (October 2021), gathered along with earlier tracks on the debut EP More Than Friends & Friends (2021).
His second EP, I'm Alright If You're OK (October 7, 2022), was produced with collaborators including Captain Cuts (Ryan Rabin and Benjamin Berger), Andrew Wells, and COIN's Chase Lawrence, and passed more than 86 million global streams; its key tracks include "Tripping Over Air" (his second-most-streamed song at roughly 55 million Spotify streams), "Twenty Something," "Grocery Store Girl" and "I Can't Be Your Friend." Around the same period he released the collaborative single "stuck on us" with Claire Rosinkranz (March 2022, via Republic/Purple Monkey Recordz).
2023 brought the singles "Out of My League," "A Song For Her," "Bloom" and "Sick" (written with Captain Cuts and Ryan McMahon), gathered on the EP Supernova (October 6, 2023). A deluxe reissue, Supernova (Extended), followed on February 23, 2024, adding the single "Planet," co-written with Captain Cuts and Sophie Cates. His 2025 album cycle opened with "are we in love yet?" (March 7, 2025, produced by Andrew Wells, mixed by Tony Hoffer), followed by "ricochet" (April 2025) and "2 much 2 handle" (May 9, 2025, produced by Suzy Shinn and Slush Puppy).
His debut studio album, shut up and love me, arrived July 25, 2025 via 10K Projects/Capitol Records: thirteen tracks running roughly 40 minutes, including "reading into it," "are you curious?," "something in the way you say my name," "contact high," "my funeral," "bloodtype," "weak end" and "dance around it." A seasonal compilation titled Winter Romance appears on some streaming aggregators pairing "More Than Friends" with a cover of "Somewhere Only We Know," but it is not listed on his official channels and appears to function as a curated playlist rather than a formal release.
| Year | Release |
|---|---|
| 2020 | "Different" (debut single) |
| 2020 | "More Than Friends" (viral breakout) |
| 2021 | "Communication" (first Capitol single); EP More Than Friends & Friends |
| 2022 | "stuck on us" with Claire Rosinkranz; EP I'm Alright If You're OK |
| 2023 | "Sick," "Bloom," "Out of My League"; EP Supernova |
| 2024 | "Planet"; EP Supernova (Extended) |
| 2025 | "are we in love yet?," "ricochet," "2 much 2 handle"; debut album shut up and love me |
Bissett's live career has followed a textbook developing-artist arc: opening-act apprenticeships from 2022 to 2023, headline runs from 2023 to 2025, and back into a high-profile opening slot in 2026. His first tour was as support for "stuck on us" collaborator Claire Rosinkranz. He then opened for The Greeting Committee's fall 2022 North American tour, for Lauv's 2022 run behind All 4 Nothing alongside Hayley Kiyoko (including a documented Boston stop on August 17, 2022), and for Canadian indie-pop band Valley's "Lost In Translation" tour across 27 North American cities in early-to-mid 2023, alongside Devon Cole. Across 2022 and 2023 he logged roughly 60 shows opening for Valley and Lauv combined.
His first headline run, the Supernova Tour, launched October 13, 2023 at Voodoo Room in San Diego with support from Anna Shoemaker, following his Lollapalooza debut that August. The tour sold out multiple dates, including a stop at New York's Racket where he debuted the then-unreleased "Planet." A follow-up headline run, Supernova: How's It Gonna End?, spanned April and May 2024 across North America and Europe with support from Casey Baer and Stevie Bill, hitting cities including Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Detroit, Brooklyn, Nashville, Atlanta and Orlando. In between, he played Gasparilla Music Festival in his hometown of Tampa on February 16, 2024, an event he had attended as a fan for years before playing it himself.
The shut up and love me Tour supported his debut album from September 14, 2025 (Music Box, San Diego, with support from Zach Hood and Lulu Simon) through cities including Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Nashville's Cannery Hall, Washington D.C., New York's Irving Plaza, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago and an Austin City Limits Music Festival stop, closing October 22 at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles; a later leg, rebranded around the single "are we in love yet?," ran through Flagstaff, Arizona by October 24. In 2026, Bissett stepped up to arena scale as a confirmed opening act, alongside Riah, on LANY's Soft World Tour, with North American dates including Boston's Roadrunner, Brooklyn's Barclays Center, Washington D.C.'s The Anthem, Toronto's Coca-Cola Coliseum, Chicago's UIC Pavilion, Nashville's The Pinnacle (April 18) and Atlanta's Coca-Cola Roxy.
Bissett's commercial footprint is defined by streaming and social virality rather than traditional chart placement; no sourcing places him on the Billboard Hot 100 or Billboard 200 to date, and this appears to be a genuine gap in his profile rather than an oversight. Per Spotify data via Kworb (mid-2026), he has 27 tracks credited to his name totaling roughly 220.6 million streams, with "More Than Friends" (about 97.2 million) and "Tripping Over Air" (about 55.2 million) his two dominant catalog tracks by a wide margin, and a current daily stream rate of approximately 123,000. Monthly listener figures have been reported around 1.2 to 1.5 million across 2024 and 2025 press coverage.
Combined global stream totals cited across press materials vary widely, from over 250 million (early 2025) to over 400 million (mid-2025) to over 1 billion in some 2024 Capitol-sourced copy, a spread that likely reflects different counting methodologies (single-platform versus cross-platform, lifetime versus period-specific) rather than a single agreed figure. His TikTok footprint grew from roughly 110,000 followers in 2021 to 550,000 to 600,000 by 2024, with cumulative video views using his music surpassing 1.6 billion by 2025. He was named to Spotify's "Pop Rising 2024 Artists to Watch" and TIDAL's "Artists to Watch in 2024," and identified by Rolling Stone as a candidate for "Pop's Next Thing."
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Spotify total streams (as of mid-2026) | ~220.6 million across 27 tracks |
| "More Than Friends" streams | ~97.2 million |
| "Tripping Over Air" streams | ~55.2 million |
| Monthly Spotify listeners (2024–2025) | ~1.2–1.5 million |
| TikTok cumulative video views | 1.6 billion+ (2025) |
| Billboard chart entries | None documented |
Bissett has been signed to Capitol Records in partnership with independent label 10K Projects since April 2021. Jeremy Vuernick, named President of A&R at Capitol Music Group in 2022, has been specifically credited with partnering with 10K Projects to develop Bissett as an artist. He is managed by Hills Artists and, since a May 2025 signing report, represented for touring by CAA agents Jacqueline Reynolds-Drumm and Lee Goforth; he is registered with BMI, which profiled him in a December 2022 "Indie Spotlight" feature.
His production and songwriting circle has centered on a recurring cast: Blu DeTiger, who connected him to his first producer; Verzache, who co-produced his first Capitol single "Communication"; Captain Cuts (Ryan Rabin and Benjamin Berger), who co-wrote and produced multiple tracks including "Twenty Something," "Sick" and "Planet"; Chase Lawrence of COIN, a friend since Bissett was 18 who produced tracks on I'm Alright If You're OK; and Andrew Wells, who worked on that EP and on the 2025 single "are we in love yet?" Claire Rosinkranz remains his most direct artist-to-artist collaborator, co-leading "stuck on us" and touring alongside him.
A less direct but well-documented connection runs through Conan Gray. During his own Kid Krow recording sessions, Gray wrote and demoed a song titled "Sick" (also known as "Except For You") that he later gave to Bissett in 2023; Bissett released his own version as a single that July. A snippet of Gray's original writer's demo leaked online in February 2025, with the full version surfacing that May. The two artists have no documented touring relationship, but the songwriting handoff places them in the same indie-pop-via-TikTok pipeline that has also produced acts such as girl in red and Wallows, an ecosystem that emerged as TikTok became the primary discovery engine for confessional, guitar-driven pop aimed at Gen Z listeners between roughly 2019 and 2021.
Bissett stands 6 feet 1 inch tall, with dark brown hair and brown eyes. He was briefly linked romantically to Marvel actress Xóchitl Gómez in 2022, following a tweet from Gómez and a joint sighting at the Los Angeles premiere of Minions: The Rise of Gru in June 2022; neither party has confirmed the relationship. His comfort watch is Dawson's Creek, and he has said his goal is to "write a song that could be in Dawson's Creek." He has described himself as "not married to anything" he creates, preferring to hand songs to collaborators to reshape rather than guard his original ideas. While promoting shut up and love me, he jokingly self-identified online as "the final boss of matcha drinking, clairo loving, pick me men," leaning into the internet-native, self-aware humor that has defined much of his era branding.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2002 | Born February 15 in Tampa, Florida (some sources cite Portland, Oregon) |
| ~2009 | Gets first electric guitar in Portland, learns AC/DC's "Back in Black" |
| ~2017 | Family moves back to Tampa; forms first band, Offshore |
| 2020 | Releases "Different" and viral hit "More Than Friends" amid pandemic lockdowns |
| 2021 | Signs with Capitol Records/10K Projects; graduates Jesuit High School; releases "Communication" |
| 2022 | Releases "stuck on us" with Claire Rosinkranz; EP I'm Alright If You're OK; opens for Lauv and The Greeting Committee |
| 2023 | Opens for Valley; Lollapalooza debut; first headline tour, Supernova; EP Supernova; receives Conan Gray's "Sick" demo |
| 2024 | Releases "Planet" and Supernova (Extended); Supernova: How's It Gonna End? tour; plays Gasparilla Music Festival in Tampa |
| 2025 | Releases "are we in love yet?," "ricochet," "2 much 2 handle"; signs with CAA; releases debut album shut up and love me; headline tour through Cannery Hall Nashville and ACL Festival |
| 2026 | Opens for LANY's Soft World Tour across North American arenas, including The Pinnacle in Nashville |
"More Than Friends" (2020) remains his most-streamed track by a wide margin, with roughly 97 million Spotify streams; "Tripping Over Air," from the 2022 EP I'm Alright If You're OK, is his second-most-streamed at around 55 million.
No. Every official credit, from streaming platforms to trade press, lists his label as Capitol Records in partnership with independent label 10K Projects. No documentation connects him to Astralwerks Records.
He was accepted to or enrolled at the University of Southern California around 2021, weighing it against Nashville's Belmont University, but ultimately prioritized his music career after signing with Capitol Records. His younger brother, Dylan, later attended USC as well.
It is a songwriting connection rather than a touring one. Conan Gray wrote and demoed a song called "Sick" (also known as "Except For You") during his own Kid Krow sessions and gave it to Bissett in 2023, who released his version as a single that July. Gray's original writer's demo later leaked online in 2025. No tour bill places Bissett on any Conan Gray headline run.
No Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200, or other official chart placement has been documented for Bissett or his releases; his commercial profile is built on streaming and social virality rather than traditional charts.
TikTok-famous bassist and singer Blu DeTiger found his early posts and connected him with a producer, which enabled his debut single "Different." Word of mouth from his growing TikTok following subsequently reached Capitol Records, which signed him in April 2021.
Aidan Bissett's story runs through the same TikTok-to-major-label indie-pop pipeline documented elsewhere on this wiki, including collaborators and label peers on the 10K Projects roster such as Artemas. Readers interested in the broader Gen Z guitar-pop wave that produced Bissett alongside acts like Wallows and COIN may also find relevant context in coverage of the darkwave and dark-pop revivals documented across other artist pages on The Ring.