SCOTTY MCCREERY PREMIERES OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “BOTTLE ROCKETS” WITH HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH EXCLUSIVELY WITH CMT
Multi-Platinum and award-winning Country music superstar Scotty McCreery has released the official music video for the song of the summer, “Bottle Rockets”, featuring Hootie & The Blowfish. The music video was premiered exclusively on Paramount/CMT’s New York City Times Square billboard on Friday, September 19. Filmed outside Charleston, South Carolina on the Isle of Palms, the laid-back, ocean side video encapsulates the universal feeling of summer and creating lifetimes of memories with friends and family. The video was directed by McCreery’s frequent collaborator, filmmaker Jeff Ray, and produced by Kelsey Pribilski-Ray.
“Hanging out on the beach with Hootie & The Blowfish, one of my favorite bands of all time, and filming the video for ‘Bottle Rockets’ was just a perfect day for me,” said McCreery. “Darius, Mark, Dean, and Soni are not only talented, but just great guys. I’ve been so excited at all that success that ‘Bottle Rockets’ has had so far, and I’m glad we were able to get together and create this video for everyone.”
CMT’s Hot 20 host Cody Alan joined McCreery and the band at the Isle of Palms’ iconic live music beach venue The Windjammer to discuss the massive hit song – McCreery’s fastest rising single of his career to date – and the longstanding friendship that brought the song to life. “Bottle Rockets” iscurrently #3 on the Mediabase Country Airplay Chart and #3 on the Billboard Country Airplay Chart. The song was produced by Frank Rogers, and written by McCreery, Rogers, Brent Anderson, Derek George, Jeremy Bussey, Monty Criswell, Bobby Hamrick, Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim Sonefeld.
The song is on McCreery’s recently released EP, Scooter & Friends, as the perfect soundtrack to summer. The five-song collection also includes McCreery’s collaborations with one of his greatest musical heroes, R&B icon Charlie Wilson (“Once Upon a Bottle of Wine”) and with Country music hitmaker Lee Brice (“Whiskey Said”).
Recently, McCreery headlined the two-night Country Night Gstaad Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland. Up next, he will be co-headlining the “Two for the Road Tour” with fellow Country star, Dustin Lynch. The “Two for the Road Tour” kicks-off this November and tickets are on-sale now at ScottyMcCreery.com.
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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 31-year-old has sold more than 4 million albums and achieved 6 No.1 hits: the recent “Cab in a Solo,” 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 most recent album is Rise & Fall, and his current EP is Scooter & Friends, containing the smash hit “Bottle Rockets” featuring Hootie & The Blowfish. 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; won two CMT Music Awards, the first for Breakthrough Video of the Year (“The Trouble with Girls”) in 2012, and the second for Digital-First Performance of the Year (‘It Matters to Her’ from “CMT Stages”) in 2024; and BMI Awards for writing One of the Top 50 Country Songs of the Year six times (in 2015 for ‘See You Tonight’, in 2018 for “Five More Minutes,” in 2019 for “This is It,” in 2021 for “In Between,” in 2022 for “You Time,” and in 2024 for “It Matters to Her”). 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. McCreery was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2023. Last year, he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry by Josh Turner and Randy Travis, after being invited by Garth Brooks. The singer/songwriter married his high school sweetheart Gabi in 2018. The couple had their first son Avery in October 2022 and are expecting their second child in Fall 2025.
