Scotty McCreery has been a household name for nearly half his life, ever since making history in 2011 as both the first country artist and the youngest male artist of any genre to debut his first studio album, the Platinum-certified Clear as Day, at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. The 30-year-old has sold more than 4 million albums and achieved 5 consecutive No.1 hits: the RIAA Platinum-certified “Damn Strait,” the RIAA Gold certified “You Time,” the RIAA Gold certified “In Between,” the RIAA Platinum certified “This is It,” and the RIAA Triple Platinum certified ‘Five More Minutes.” His current single “Cab in a Solo,” which McCreery wrote with Frank Rogers and Brent Anderson, is from a forthcoming album due out in 2024.
The North Carolina native has earned one Triple Platinum, five Platinum and four Gold singles; one Platinum and two Gold albums; was named the ACM New Artist of the Year in 2011; won the CMT Music Award for Breakthrough Video of the Year (“The Trouble with Girls”) in 2012; and BMI Awards for writing One of the Top 50 Country Songs of the Year five times (in 2015 for “See You Tonight,” in 2018 for “Five More Minutes,” in 2019 for “This is It,” in 2021 for “In Between,” and in 2022 for “You Time”).
He was awarded Pandora Billionaire status in 2021 in recognition of his music achieving more than one billion streams on Pandora. His song “Five More Minutes” inspired two popular holiday movies which aired on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Network: “Five More Minutes” in 2021 and “Five More Minutes: Moments Like These” in 2022. He released his first book Go Big or Go Home: The Journey Toward the Dream in 2016. His most recent album is Same Truck: The Deluxe Album. This fall McCreery was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame and was most recently invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry by Garth Brooks. The singer/songwriter married his high school sweetheart Gabi in 2018, and the couple had their first son Avery in October 2022. For more information, visit ScottyMcCreery.com.
Mackenzie Carpenter is the spunky blonde girl-next door that fell in love with music as a kid. She was featured in CMT Next Women of Country Class of 2023 and performed across multiple stages at CMA Fest 2023. Her debut single, “Can’t Nobody” was a Sirius XM Country Radio Highway find and single, “Jesus, I’m Jealous” has accumulated 1.2M global on demand streams. She released her first EP “Don’t Mess With Exes” in 2023 and has already accumulated 30 million global streams. Mackenzie has already opened for Miranda Lambert, Jake Owen, Parker Mccollum, Craig Campbell, and Ryan Hurd. This summer, she took the stage at incredible events like Country Thunder, Tortuga Music Festival, Stagecoach and made her Grand Ole Opry debut in June 2023. Mackenzie most recently released her viral single, Country Girls (Just Wanna Have Fun) which has already amassed over 6.1M views.
