Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves (2014)

Kacey Musgraves (born August 21, 1988 in Mineola , Texas ) is an American country musician and Grammy Award winner.

life and career

Kacey Musgraves first appeared on stage at the age of eight and then began to learn various instruments and write his own songs. She produced and released her first three albums independently between 2002 and 2007, but had little success with them. It was not until the Nashville Star talent competition that she opened the doors to the music business. First her songs were taken over by interpreters like Martina McBride and Miranda Lambert , then she got a record deal with Mercury Nashville in 2012 .

With their debut single Merry Go 'Round Musgraves had a successful debut in the country and the official single charts in the same year. She got a gold award for it and she was voted Country Single of the Year by Billboard . Their first major label album, Same Trailer Different Park , was able to enter the country charts and number two on the Billboard 200 and even place itself in Great Britain. She was then named New Artist of the Year at the CMA Awards . For the Grammy Awards 2014 , Kacey Musgraves received four nominations, including in the main category for Newcomer of the Year. It won two of the awards for Merry Go 'Round for Best Country Song and Same Trailer, Different Park for Best Country Album.

In March 2015, Musgraves released Biscuits, the first single from their second album Pageant Material . The song is a mid-tempo number and addresses the fact that people shouldn't always stick their noses into strange matters.

Her third studio album, Golden Hour , was released in 2018 and won all four Grammy categories for which she was nominated: Album of the Year and Best Country Album as well as Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song for the two single releases Butterflies and Space Cowboy . Precisely because of this year's enormous success, the music journalist Marrissa Moss described that Musgraves, like all female artists, had a difficult time in the airplay selection of US country radio stations for years. Anyone other than her would have long since given up investing in single promotion.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		CH	UK	US	Country
2013	Same Trailer Different Park	-	UK39 silver (3 weeks)UK	US2 platinum (72 weeks)US	Country1 (78 weeks) Country	Grammy (Country Album)
2015	Pageant material	-	UK11 (5 weeks) UK	US3 (14 weeks) US	Country1 (45 weeks) Country
2016	A Very Kacey Christmas	-	-	US21 (8 weeks) US	Country11 (14 weeks) Country
2018	Golden hour	CH43 (3 weeks) CH	UK6th silver (3 weeks)UK	US4th gold (93 weeks)US	Country1 (... week) Country	2 × Grammy ( album of the year , country album)
2019	The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show	-	-	US120 (2 weeks) US	Country17 (4 weeks) Country

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2012	Merry Go 'Round Same Trailer Different Park	US63 platinum (15 weeks)US	Country14 (30 weeks) Country	Grammy (Country Song)
2013	Blowin 'Smoke Same Trailer Different Park	US- gold US	Country31 (20 weeks) Country
	Follow Your Arrow Same Trailer Different Park	US60 platinum (1 week)US	Country10 (20 weeks) Country
2014	Keep It to Yourself Same Trailer Different Park	-	Country40 (13 weeks) Country
2015	Biscuits Pageant material	US- gold US	Country28 (18 weeks) Country
	Dime Store Cowgirl Pageant Material	-	Country44 (1 week) Country
2018	Butterflies Golden Hour	-	Country32 (6 weeks) Country	Grammy ( Country Solo Performance )
	Space Cowboy Golden Hour	US- gold US	Country30 (6 weeks) Country	Grammy (Country Song)
	High horse golden hour	US- gold US	Country36 (3 weeks) Country
	Slow Burn Golden Hour	US- gold US	Country42 (1 week) Country
2019	Rainbow Golden Hour	US98 gold (1 week)US	Country17 (16 weeks) Country
	All Is Found Frozen 2 OST	-	Country31 (11 weeks) Country
	Rockin 'Around The Christmas Tree The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show	-	Country20 (4 weeks) Country	feat. Camila Cabello
	Glittery The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show	-	Country33 (3 weeks) Country	feat. Troye Sivan
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2014	The trailer song	-	Country46 (1 week) Country

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2011	Oh, Tonight She’s Like Texas	-	Country44 (30 weeks) Country	Josh Abbott Band feat. Kacey Musgraves
2016	Forever Country	US21st gold (4 weeks)US	Country1 (18 weeks) Country	as part of "Artists of Then, Now & Forever"

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1. ↑ 10 Best Country Singles of 2013 , Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, December 19, 2013
2. ↑ Award databases: CMA Awards ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / Grammy Awards 
3. ↑ List of 2019 winners and nominees , Recording Academy Grammy Award, accessed February 12, 2019
4. ↑ How Kacey Musgraves' Grammy Wins Give Country Radio a Choice to Make , Rolling Stone, February 12, 2019, accessed February 13, 2019
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: CH UK US
6. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US

Web links

• Official website of Kacey Musgraves (English)
• Kacey Musgraves at Allmusic (English)