{"id":154332,"date":"2026-04-01T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154332\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:20:07","slug":"fast-rising-country-music-singer-announced-as-allentown-fairs-first-headliner-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154332\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast-rising country music singer announced as Allentown Fair&#8217;s first headliner of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A country music singer who has had a chart-topping hit and a platinum single with a quarter-billion views on TikTok is the first headline act announced for this year&#8217;s Allentown Fair. <\/p>\n<p>Warren Zeiders, whose 2023 song &#8220;Pretty Little Poison&#8221; topped the Country Airplay chart and sold double platinum, will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 4 on the fair grandstand, the fair said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets, the prices of which were not immediately announced, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, April 10, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allentownfair.com\/grandstand-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">at the fair website<\/a> or the box office at 302 N. 17th St., Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Special box office hours will be from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 10. All show tickets include admission to the fair. The fair also is offering discount ride tickets, half price fair admission and prepaid premium concert parking.<\/p>\n<p>Zeiders also is known for his 2021 debut single, &#8220;Ride the Lightning (717 Tapes),&#8221; which went viral on TikTok, helping it get more than 85 million streams and more than 200 million views.<\/p>\n<p>It peaked at No. 30 on the Country chart and sold platinum.<\/p>\n<p>Zeiders is the first of five grandstand shows expected to be announced for the fair, which this year will run Sept. 2-7.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania roots, platinum success<\/p>\n<p>Zeiders, 26, a native of Hershey, Derry County, in 2021 released his major-label debut album, &#8220;717 Tapes The Album,&#8221; which included &#8220;Ride the Lightning.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>His sophomore disc, 2023&#8217;s &#8220;Pretty Little Poison, peaked at No. 12 on the Country chart, reached gold status and crossed over to the Top 60 on Billboard&#8217;s overall Albums chart.<\/p>\n<p>The album&#8217;s title track became Zeiders&#8217;s first No. 1 hit on Billboard&#8217;s Country Airplay chart and was the second-most-played song on Country radio that year.<\/p>\n<p>    In all he has totaled more than 3.6 billion global career streams, 2 billion TikTok views and 7.9 million monthly listeners on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Fair release<\/p>\n<p>Another single from the album&#8217;s deluxe edition, &#8220;Sin So Sweet,&#8221; also hit the Country Top 40.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent album was 2024&#8217;s &#8220;Relapse, Lies &amp; Betrayal,&#8221; which also peaked at No. 12 on the Country chart. The title song peaked at No. 30 on the Country Singles chart.<\/p>\n<p> Zeiders won a CMT Award for Breakthrough Male Music Video of the Year. <\/p>\n<p>Zeiders also has appeared on &#8220;The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon&#8221; and &#8220;The Kelly Clarkson Show,&#8221; and was featured in People Magazine\u2019s \u201cSexiest Man Alive\u201d issue.<\/p>\n<p>In all he has totaled more than 3.6 billion global career streams, 2 billion TikTok views and 7.9 million monthly listeners on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>In November, he concluded his &#8220;Relapse&#8221; headline tour with a sold-out, hometown arena show at Hershey\u2019s Giant Center.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Zeiders released his new single \u201cBorn to Be Yours.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A country music singer who has had a chart-topping hit and a platinum single with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,2537,1101,70033,121,120,48874,70034,70035],"class_list":["post-154332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-and-concerts","tag-allentown-fair","tag-allentown-fair-and-concerts","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-warren-zeiders","tag-warren-zeiders-and-allentown","tag-warren-zeiders-and-allentown-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}