Rascal Flatts Biography

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bass guitar as well as backing vocal. Within a short time, some demos were wonderfully produced to later come into the favorable attention of Lyric Street Senior VP of A&R, Doug Howard, who subsequently signed them in as the label's new recording country artist, thanks to producer Dan Huff's recommendation.

Afterwards entered the studio to record their first effort by November 1999, Rascal Flatts finally released a self-titled debut album on June 6, 2000 of which two songs entitled “Prayin' For Daylight” and “I'm Movin' On” immediately rose to the top 3 of Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks. Also spawned two more hits on the chart's top ten, it was not really surprising to see the album soaring to the first rank of Billboard Heatseeker to in the end achieve Platinum status along with a CMA Horizon Award and New Vocal Group of the Year title from Academy of Country Music (ACM) in 2001. Unmistakably propelled to widespread popularity across the States, the band confidently walked on their path to deliver another piece of work, “Melt”, by October 29, 2002.

Repeating the formula the trio had perfected on their debut, “Melt” amazingly went straight to the top spot of ...

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Billboard Top Country Album besides entered the top 5 on The Billboard 200, along the way generating 4 U.S top 3 country hits of “Mayberry”, “These Days”, “Love You Out Loud”, and “I Melt.” Sadly, this accomplishment was slightly tainted in 2003 when the music video of the latter composition received harsh response from public due to its brief nudity scene which led to a demand insisting the video to be banned from airplay on Country Music Television (CMT) and Great American Country. Fortunately, the case was ultimately settled after the band featured an edited version of the video, allowing them to keep glowing brightly for the rest of the year with the 4 honors they collected each from CMT plus Country Music Association, and two from the Academy of Country Music.

Continued to maintain their superb talent in creating great work, Rascal Flatts eventually came to the highlight of their career through their third album, “Feels Like Today”, and one of its tracks, “Bless the Broken Road." Released on September 28, 2004, this record satisfyingly directed the band to have their first number-one album on The Billboard 200 while the single fabulously enabled them to garner three Grammy Award ...