We keep getting more and more news about “American Idol” Season 10 winner Scotty McCreery’s debut album, including the latest that he’ll be covering an early song by Keith Urban.
McCreery said the album is mostly new material, but Urban suggested he take on one of his songs.
“There’s technically going to be one cover,” McCreery told the Boston Globe. “Keith Urban pitched a song my way, and it’s one he did way back when he was part of the band called The Ranch. He’s on tour right now so we don’t know, but he said he might play guitar on the track.”
He hasn’t revealed the title of the song, but we’ll let you know as soon as the news hits.
McCreery’s album “Clear as Day” is set to be released Oct. 4. McCreery says you’ll hear other influences on the album aside from Urban’s.
“It has some old country influences and elements, but it also has a contemporary feel with fun up-tempo songs,” he said. “It’s a good mixture. You can hear some of the influences that I grew up with, like Hank Williams, Conway Twitty and Merle Haggard, but it still has a contemporary twist and feel that keeps it up to date.”
Yesterday, we shared a sneak listen to a track from the album called “The Trouble With Girls.”
*Reigning “American Idol” champion Scotty McCreery’sdebut single “I Love You This Big” sales have gone above the half million mark, which means it has reached gold status.
Season 10 Idols on the current charts:
Scotty McCreery, I Love You This Big (24,000, +29%, 503,000)
*Season 10′s James Durbin recently tweeted that he’s working on a song that’s not for his new album. The cryptic tweet read “Recording a badass song called Stand Up! Not for the record… but not to keep you waiting too long. I’ll tell ya more when I can!”
“American Idol” Season 10 winner Scotty McCreery’s video for his first single “I Love You This Big” debuted today on CMT and in case you missed it, we have it for you here.
It’s not the best video, but Scotty sounds great. For such a great story-teller singer, the video tells no story at all. Who is he singing too? The man in the white beard? The crowd? God? His career? Himself? Who knows. They could’ve done better with the video, that’s for sure.
Listen up, Pia Toscano fans. Tonight is your chance to see the American Idol 2011 contestant back on television with a special performance on So You Think You Can Dance 2011 at 8PM ET for their Top 6 results show.
Pia Toscano will be performing her new single, “This Time.” If you missed the song’s release the other week then give it a listen below.
“American Idol” Season 10 2nd runner-up Haley Reinhart has signed to Jimmy Iovine’s Interscope Records, according to multiple sources.
Haley is now the fourth season 10 contestant to sign to the label. The others were winner Scotty McCreery, runner-up Lauren Alaina and Pia Toscano.
Earlier in the summer, Haley, along with other Top 11 contestants were given management deals from Red Light Management. So that means she’s ready to cut her first album.
While there aren’t any details on her album, Haley did tell Reality Rocks that she has some hopes for her upcoming release.
“In a perfect world, I would love it be bluesy, soulful, funky – a lot of stuff incorporated,” she told the site. “I think it’s possible!”
