# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bucky-covington
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:43:40.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bucky-covington"
name: "Bucky Covington"
slug: "bucky-covington"
description: "William Joel \"Bucky\" Covington III is an American country music singer. He placed eighth on the 5th season of the Fox Network's talent competition series American Idol. In December 2006, he signed a recording contract with Lyric Street Records. His self-titled debut album, produced by Dale Oliver and Mark Miller of the band Sawyer Brown, was released on April 17, 2007. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and produced three hit singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: \"A Different World\" at number six, \"It's Good to Be Us\" at number eleven, and \"I'll Walk\" at number ten. Three more singles: \"I Want My Life Back\", \"Gotta Be Somebody\", and \"A Father's Love \", were released for an unreleased second album, titled I'm Alright, and later included on his 2012 album, Good Guys."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bucky_Covington.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1977-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.275744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "buckycovington"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/buckycovingtonmusic"
    handle:    "buckycovingtonmusic"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2212214/"
    handle:    "nm2212214"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.buckycovington.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بوكي كوفنغتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بوكى كوفنجتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_Covington"
    title: "Bucky Covington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_Covington"
    title: "Bucky Covington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_Covington"
    title: "Bucky Covington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_Covington"
    title: "Bucky Covington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_Covington"
    title: "Bucky Covington"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky_Covington"
    title: "Bucky Covington"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump