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Maddie & Tae

Arriving at the height of bro-country's peak in the mid-2010s, Maddie & Tae skewered that genre's down-home swagger with "Girl in a Country Song," a sharp satire of all the sexist clichés littering the airwaves in 2014. "Girl in a Country Song" became a hit in its own right, reaching number one on Billboard's Country Airplay charts by the end of 2014, making the duo of Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye genuine country stars. Start Here, Maddie & Tae's 2015 debut, kept the pair on the charts, thanks in part to "Fly," a bittersweet ballad that played to the duo's strengths as harmonizers and canny country-pop synthesizers. The two hits made a lasting impression that sustained Maddie & Tae through some label trouble in the ensuing years, a period that ended with a pair of EPs in 2019 that were subsequently compiled as their 2020 LP The Way It Feels. The EPs Through the Madness, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 appeared in 2022, followed by the 2023 single "Heart They Didn't Break." Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye first crossed paths in 2010, when they were students of the same vocal coach while attending high school in the Dallas area. Hitting it off, the two struck up a friendship that turned professional. As Sweet Aliana, the pair began performing and writing songs, making the occasional trip to Nashville. After graduation, they relocated to the Music City, earning the attention of Big Machine Records, which decided to make the duo -- now named Maddie & Tae -- the flagship signing for Dot Records, a legendary label revived under the Big Machine umbrella. Dot released "Girl in a Country Song" -- a clever satire of bro-country that Marlow and Dye co-wrote with Aaron Scherz -- as Maddie & Tae's first single in July 2014. The track quickly became a sensation within the country music media, then worked its way up the charts. By the end of 2014, it had reached number one on Billboard's Country Airplay charts, an achievement that coincided with the November release of their eponymous debut EP. Along with "Girl in a Country Song," the EP featured their second single, "Fly," which climbed to number nine on Country Airplay in the summer of 2015, setting up the release of their debut LP, Start Here. The album arrived in August of that year, debuting at two on Billboard's Country Album charts and seven on Billboard Top 200, with the single "Shut Up and Fish" peaking at 23 later that fall. Another single, "Sierra," appeared in 2016, but it stalled at 47 on the Country Airplay Charts. Dot folded in 2017, leaving the duo to transition over to Mercury Nashville in 2018. The single "Friends Don't" arrived in 2018, reaching 33 on Country Airplay. "Friends Don't" and "Die from a Broken Heart" both appeared on One Heart to Another, an EP released in April 2019. Another EP, Everywhere I'm Goin', came out in October of that year as Maddie & Tae wrapped up sessions for their second album. The resulting The Way It Feels, which contained all of the two previously released EPs, arrived in April 2020. The following year saw the release of the single "Woman You Got," which appeared on the duo's 2022 EP Through the Madness, Vol. 1. Vol. 2, which included the hit "Every Night Every Morning," appeared later that year. In June 2023, the duo celebrated their friendship with the Corey Crowder-produced standalone single "Heart They Didn't Break."
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