Scotty McCreery

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; won the 10th season of ?American Idol? in 2011 at age 17; was named the ACM New Artist of the Year in 2011.