Landon Barker (born October 9, 2003, in Santa Monica, California) is an American singer and songwriter who spent his teenage years releasing independent rap tracks before a Machine Gun Kelly feature, a label deal with his father's imprint, and a high-profile relationship with TikTok star Charli D'Amelio turned him into one of pop-punk's most closely watched next-generation names. The son of Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, he has spent his career navigating a familiar tension: proving his music stands on its own while never hiding how much his family shaped it.
Landon Asher Barker was born on October 9, 2003, to Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler, a model, actress and former Miss USA. His first name traces directly back to his father's own middle name, Travis Landon Barker. His parents married in October 2004 and divorced in 2008. Landon grew up with a younger full sister, Alabama Luella Barker, who has also pursued music, and an older maternal half-sister, Atiana De La Hoya, from Moakler's relationship with boxer Oscar De La Hoya. As a toddler he appeared alongside his family on the MTV reality series Meet the Barkers (2005–2006).
His father's near-fatal September 2008 plane crash, which killed four people and left Travis with severe burns, PTSD and a lasting fear of flying, became a formative shadow over the family and has affected Landon's own touring logistics as his career developed. In May 2022, Travis Barker married Kourtney Kardashian; Landon gave a speech at the wedding, and the union folded him into an extended network that includes step-siblings Mason, Penelope and Reign Disick and the wider Kardashian-Jenner family. In November 2023, Travis and Kourtney welcomed son Rocky Thirteen Barker, giving Landon a paternal half-brother.
In March 2024, Landon publicly disclosed that he has “very minor” Tourette syndrome, describing tics, including jaw and head movements, that he has experienced since preschool, alongside diagnoses of ADHD and OCD. He discussed the diagnoses candidly with USA Today rather than treating them as a secret, framing the disclosure as an act of openness. He graduated high school in June 2022.
Landon's music career did not begin in pop-punk. In October 2018, at age 15, he released his debut single, “I Don't Need Her” (also listed as “Don't Need Her”), under the moniker OTG Landon, short for “on the grind.” He followed with R&B-inflected rap singles “Trust” (featuring OTG Gvcci) and “I'm Sorry” in 2019, and “Holiday” in November 2020. On Halloween 2020, nodding toward his father's punk-rock world, he released a cover of the Misfits' “Skulls.”
His live career began on February 26, 2022, at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, where the 18-year-old performed his first-ever set as an opener on a bill headlined by singer-songwriter Christian Gates, with additional support from Slush Puppy and PHEM. Mid-set, Landon brought out his friend Jaden Hossler (jxdn), and Travis Barker came out and played drums behind his son, afterward posting a photo captioned “Proud of you son.” Kourtney Kardashian and Alabama Barker were also in the crowd. It was a modest debut in a small (roughly 500-capacity) room, but it marked the first time Landon performed his own music live in front of an audience.
The real turning point came weeks later. On March 25, 2022, Landon was featured on Machine Gun Kelly's single “Die in California,” alongside Gunna and Young Thug, from MGK's album Mainstream Sellout. Landon had co-written the song himself; MGK reportedly overheard it during a shared studio session and, with Megan Fox encouraging the collaboration, recorded additional verses over Landon's original. Landon described the pivot to Highsnobiety: he “started making music when I was 12 or 13, and I originally was making rap music,” before “Die in California” pushed him toward “pure genre-bending, emo kid vibes.” The song reached No. 15 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100, No. 17 on the US Rock chart and No. 95 in Canada, and by mid-2026 had accumulated more than 45.5 million Spotify streams under MGK's artist page. In June 2022, Landon guest-performed the song at Machine Gun Kelly's sold-out Madison Square Garden show on the Mainstream Sellout Tour, doing so shortly after learning his father had been hospitalized for pancreatitis. He has credited MGK, whom he calls “Kells,” as a mentor who gave him “really, really good stage advice” and as “a big brother to me since I can like remember.”
The single biggest amplifier of Landon's mainstream profile was his relationship with TikTok star Charli D'Amelio, which began in mid-2022 and lasted until February 2024. On the Zach Sang Show, Landon recounted that Charli direct-messaged him first, prompting him to decide, in his words, “f--k it, I'm gonna go hang out with her,” with her sister Dixie D'Amelio later saying she helped set the two up. The relationship generated extensive coverage across People, Us Weekly, ET Online and Hulu's The D'Amelio Show, including a joint magazine cover in coordinated style. The pair announced their breakup via Landon's Instagram in February 2024: “We broke up to focus on ourselves. We are still friends and have so much love for each other.” A Reddit community post claimed Landon lost roughly 100,000 Instagram followers within days of that announcement, though this figure is not corroborated by any platform-verified or press-reported source and should be treated as anecdotal.
In 2023, Landon signed to DTA Records, the label his father founded in December 2019 as a joint venture with Elektra Entertainment within the Warner Music Group. DTA's roster at various points has included Jaden Hossler, whom Travis Barker signed in 2020 as the label's first artist, along with Ho99o9, Avril Lavigne, Caspr and Deyaz. Landon has said his father made the deal something to be earned rather than a given: “My dad would be like, ‘Show me that you want to sign’… I feel like I had to prove myself to get the opportunity to sign to them.” He put the logic behind the family arrangement more simply to Variety: “Who wouldn't want to collaborate with their family?”
His debut single as a signed DTA/Elektra artist, “Friends With Your EX,” was released September 22, 2023, with Travis Barker producing and playing drums. The accompanying video starred then-girlfriend Charli D'Amelio, and the song was widely though not conclusively read as referencing Chase “Huddy” Hudson, D'Amelio's ex, a reading Landon downplayed: “no bad blood… my song isn't necessarily a shot at him.” This release is distinct from “Die in California,” which had come out roughly eighteen months earlier as an MGK single on a different label in a different genre; the two are sometimes conflated in casual retrospectives but represent separate stages of Landon's career. He followed with “Over You” in March 2024, released after the D'Amelio split and again produced by his father, and a February 2025 remix of “Friends With Your EX” featuring iann dior.
Travis Barker spoke about the collaboration in a People exclusive published a week after Landon's 20th-birthday concert: “Working with Landon was incredible. Watching him develop his musical talents and songwriting skills since childhood has been a dream realized,” adding, “When Landon asked me to assist with ‘Friends with Your Ex,’ it was a privilege to produce and play on it.” Landon told the same outlet he and his father had “created a number of songs together” and that he was “100 percent ready” to release more.
Landon's touring history runs from small club dates to festival and arena-adjacent slots. Following his Roxy debut, he returned to the venue in October 2022 for a special show performing an unreleased collaboration with his father. Through mid-2023 he made guest appearances at arena shows in Phoenix, Los Angeles and Charlotte, performing early versions of “Friends With Your Ex” alongside unreleased material such as “Runnin' Back,” “Roller Coaster” and “It's All Your Fault.”
His first headline concert came on October 9, 2023, at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, timed to his 20th birthday. He performed “Friends With Your Ex,” “Die in California” and unreleased music with his band, and contemporaneous coverage named iann dior, Sace6 and Christian Gates among the artists who “took the stage to help him celebrate his birthday.” His mother, Shanna Moakler, was reported crying at the show, saying it was “so cool” to see her son “as a frontman” and calling it a “super proud mommy moment.” The booking closed a loose loop from the Roxy: Landon had opened for Christian Gates at his live debut in February 2022, and roughly nineteen months later Christian Gates appeared as a support performer at Landon's own headline debut.
In 2024, Landon expanded his live footprint further, playing an extended club set at The Vermont Hollywood in July with a set list stretching to more than a dozen songs, guest slots supporting larger arena shows in Portland and George, Washington, and a festival appearance at Yungblud's BLUDFEST in Milton Keynes, England, in August, alongside acts including Machine Gun Kelly and Avril Lavigne within the same pop-punk revival scene. That summer he also joined Blink-182 on select dates of the band's One More Time Tour. He returned to headline shows in Los Angeles as recently as December 2025 at The Novo.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Debuts as OTG Landon with single “I Don't Need Her” |
| 2020 | Releases “Holiday” and a Halloween cover of the Misfits' “Skulls” |
| Feb. 2022 | First live show, opening for Christian Gates at The Roxy Theatre; Jaden Hossler and Travis Barker join him onstage |
| March 2022 | Featured on Machine Gun Kelly's “Die in California” with Gunna and Young Thug |
| June 2022 | Guest-performs at MGK's sold-out Madison Square Garden show; releases boohooMAN capsule collection |
| May 2022 | Travis Barker marries Kourtney Kardashian |
| 2023 | Signs to DTA Records/Elektra |
| Sept. 2023 | Releases debut label single “Friends With Your EX,” produced by Travis Barker |
| Oct. 2023 | First headline concert, 20th-birthday show at El Rey Theatre; Christian Gates performs in support |
| March 2024 | Releases “Over You”; publicly discloses Tourette syndrome, ADHD and OCD |
| Aug. 2024 | Plays Yungblud's BLUDFEST festival in England; joins select Blink-182 One More Time Tour dates |
| Feb. 2024 | Ends relationship with Charli D'Amelio |
| Dec. 2025 | Headlines The Novo at LA Live |
| June 2026 | Signs to Big Loud Rock; releases “If I Ever Talk To God” after a roughly two-year gap |
After roughly two years without new music, Landon announced in June 2026 a deal with Big Loud Rock, the rock-focused imprint of Nashville's Big Loud Records, whose roster includes Hardy, Jagwar Twin and Girl Tones. The signing marked a formal departure from DTA Records/Elektra. His first release under the new deal, “If I Ever Talk To God,” came out June 26, 2026, co-written and produced with Gian Stone (known for work with Maroon 5 and Justin Bieber), J Moon (Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato) and Michael Kamerman (Smallpools), signaling a more polished, contemporary pop-rock direction than his earlier hip-hop-adjacent material. Landon framed the return candidly to Variety: “I haven't released music in a couple of years, and during that time, I went through a lot creatively and personally… This song feels like the right way to come back. Seeing how people have already connected with it online has made me even more excited to finally put it out.” Third-party tracking reported 172,064 total Spotify streams for the single shortly after release.
Landon's visual identity draws heavily on 2000s-2010s pop-punk and emo iconography filtered through a fashion-forward, celebrity-adjacent lens: tattoos, styled hair and eyeliner he has worn since childhood, citing Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong as an early influence. His most concrete commercial fashion venture was a June 2022 capsule collection with boohooMAN styled around rockstar and tour-merch aesthetics, timed to his rising profile after “Die in California.” He has also appeared in editorial features for V Magazine's “Generation V” series and Flaunt Magazine, and shared a joint style feature with Charli D'Amelio during their relationship.
He has described an unusually reciprocal relationship with fans, telling Flaunt that he prefers the word “friends” to “fans” and referencing an active Instagram group chat: “we have a group chat on Instagram where we talk all the time, it's great honestly, I can't complain at all.” By 2022, at age 18, he had already surpassed one million Instagram followers and roughly 1.5 million TikTok followers, with later 2022 reporting citing figures approaching 3.9 million on TikTok. His primary social handle is @landonbarker, with a secondary account, @landonasherbarker, used mainly for family tributes.
| Release | Type | Date | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| “I Don't Need Her” (as OTG Landon) | Single | Oct. 2018 | Independent |
| “Trust” (feat. OTG Gvcci) | Single | 2019 | Independent |
| “I'm Sorry” | Single | 2019 | Independent |
| “Holiday” | Single | Nov. 2020 | Independent |
| “Skulls” (Misfits cover) | Single | Oct. 2020 | Independent |
| “Die in California” (MGK feat. Gunna, Young Thug & Landon Barker) | Single | March 2022 | Interscope/Bad Boy |
| “Friends With Your EX” | Single | Sept. 2023 | DTA Records/Elektra |
| “Over You” | Single | March 2024 | DTA Records/Elektra |
| “Friends With Your EX” (Remix, feat. iann dior) | Single | Feb. 2025 | DTA Records/Elektra |
| “If I Ever Talk To God” | Single | June 2026 | Big Loud Rock |
Additional demo and setlist-only tracks that circulate but were not formally released to streaming include “Rollercoaster,” “It's All Your Fault,” “Dark When It Rains,” “Blue Christmas,” “Runnin' Back,” “100 Missed Calls,” “Night Changes,” “I Play The Drums,” “Partially Insane,” “Ruining It” and “Thoughts.” Landon also appears in his sister Alabama Barker's December 2024 single “Vogue” music video alongside cameos from Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian.
| Metric | Figure | As of |
|---|---|---|
| “Die in California” total Spotify streams (via MGK artist page) | 45,539,061 | July 2026 |
| “If I Ever Talk To God” total Spotify streams | 172,064 | days after June 2026 release |
| Instagram followers | surpassed 1 million by 2022 | 2022 |
| TikTok followers | approximately 3.9 million | Sept. 2022 |
“Die in California” peaked at No. 15 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100, No. 17 on the US Rock chart and No. 95 in Canada. A dedicated, current Spotify monthly-listener figure specific to Landon's own solo artist profile was not available at the time of this writing; the clearest public streaming data traces back through Machine Gun Kelly's artist page for their shared single.
Yes. Landon is the son of Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler, born in 2003 during their marriage; they divorced in 2008. Travis has produced and played drums on several of Landon's DTA-era singles, including “Friends With Your EX” and “Over You.”
Yes, on two occasions roughly nineteen months apart. Landon's first-ever live show, on February 26, 2022, at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, was an opening slot on a bill headlined by Christian Gates, with Travis Barker and Jaden Hossler joining Landon onstage mid-set. His first-ever headline concert, a 20th-birthday show at the El Rey Theatre on October 9, 2023, had Christian Gates among the supporting performers, alongside iann dior and Sace6.
Press coverage across People, Us Weekly and Hulu's The D'Amelio Show treated the relationship, which ran from mid-2022 to February 2024, as a genuine two-year partnership rather than a publicity stunt; Landon has given detailed personal accounts of how it began, including on the Zach Sang Show.
It is credited as a Machine Gun Kelly single featuring Gunna, Young Thug and Landon Barker, released on MGK's album Mainstream Sellout in March 2022. Landon co-wrote the track, but it was released under MGK's label rather than as a Landon Barker solo or DTA Records release. His actual debut as a signed solo artist was “Friends With Your EX,” released roughly eighteen months later in September 2023.
As of mid-2026, Landon is signed to Big Loud Rock, the rock imprint of Nashville's Big Loud Records, following a roughly two-year gap after his time on DTA Records/Elektra, the label founded by his father.
For more on the surrounding scene, see entries on Travis Barker and DTA Records labelmate Jaden Hossler, whose own 2020 signing to the label began with a TikTok that Landon showed his father. Christian Gates, who headlined Landon's live debut and later supported Landon's own headline show, is covered in fuller context on his own page.