Maren Morris

Maren Morris (2019)

Maren Larae Morris (* 10. April 1990 in Dallas , Texas , United States ) is an American with the Grammy excellent Country singer .

Career

Maren Morris not only started making music at a very early age, she made recordings at a young age and had completed three albums by 2011, mostly with songs she had written herself. The following year she went to Nashville , where she first came to work as a songwriter. She was involved in songs by Tim McGraw ( Last Turn Home ) and Kelly Clarkson ( Second Wind ), among others .

Her own music career initially only consisted of appearances beyond the United States. That changed with the song My Church , which she recorded in 2015 and released digitally. It thus reached over 2.5 million streaming views and attracted the attention of the big labels. She signed with Sony Music and released an EP titled with her name that same year. Both the EP and the song My Church made it into the respective charts and stayed there for several months. The song reached number 5 in the country charts, sold over a million copies and received a platinum award for it .

In mid-2016, the first album followed on a major label with the title Hero . This put Morris straight away at number 1 on the country charts and at number 5 in the official album charts . She was then named best newcomer at the CMA Awards . She was also nominated for best newcomer at the Grammy Awards and in three country categories. Eventually she received the Best Country Solo Performance award .

Together with the German-Russian DJ Zedd , she released the song The Middle in January 2018 , which moves stylistically between electronic dance and country music.

In March 2019, she released her second studio album Girl , which was streamed 24 million times in the first week, breaking the record for the most streamed country studio album by a woman within a week. The first single of the same name was released in January 2019.

Private

Morris married Ryan Hurd , also a singer, in March 2018. On March 23, 2020 their first child, Hayes Andrew Hurd, was born.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	Country
2005	Walk on	-	-	-	First published: June 14, 2005 as Mozzi Blozzi
2007	All that it takes	-	-	-	First published: October 22, 2007 as Smith
2011	Life Wire	-	-	-	First published: 2011 as Mozzi Blozzi
2016	Hero	UK65 (2 weeks) UK	US5 platinum (80 weeks)US	Country1 (148 weeks) Country	First published: June 3, 2016 Sales: + 1,040,000
2019	Girl	UK72 (1 week) UK	US4th gold (… Where.)US	Country1 (... week) Country	First published: March 8, 2019 Sales: + 500,000

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	Country
2015	Maren Morris	-	US96 (16 weeks) US	Country22 (16 weeks) Country	First published: November 6, 2015 as Mozzi Blozzi

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
2016	My Church Hero	-	-	-	-	US50 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country5 (26 weeks) Country	First published: Jan 19, 2016 Sales: + 2,010,000
	80s Mercedes Hero	-	-	-	-	US74 platinum (13 weeks)US	Country11 (36 weeks) Country	First published: June 27, 2016 Sales: + 1,040,000
2017	I Could Use a Love Song Hero	-	-	-	-	US56 platinum (21 weeks)US	Country7 (43 weeks) Country	First published: March 27, 2017 Sales: + 1,040,000
	Dear Hate	-	-	-	-	US91 (1 week) US	Country18 (3 weeks) Country	First published: October 14, 2017 feat. Vince Gill , promo single
2018	The Middle	DE15th gold (24 weeks)DE	AT12 (24 weeks) AT	CH27 (26 weeks) CH	UK7th platinum (31 weeks)UK	US5 × 3 Triple platinum (40 weeks)US	-	First published: Jan 23, 2018 Sales: + 2,031,000; with Zedd & Gray
	Rich	-	-	-	-	US62 gold (8 weeks)US	Country8 (35 weeks) Country	First published: February 12, 2018 Sales: + 500,000
2019	Girl girl	-	-	-	-	US44 platinum (21 weeks)US	Country8 (28 weeks) Country	First published: January 19, 2019 Sales: + 1,000,000
	The Bones Girl	-	-	-	-	US12 platinum (… Where.)US	Country1 (... week) Country	First published: February 22nd, 2019 Sales: + 1,035,000
2020	To Hell & Back Girl	-	-	-	-	-	Country43 (... weeks) Country	First published: March 30, 2020
	Just for Now Girl	-	-	-	-	-	Country40 (1 week) Country
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:
2017	Once Hero	-	-	-	-	-	Country37 (2 weeks) Country	First published: March 4, 2017
2019	A Song for Everything Girl	-	-	-	-	-	Country37 (1 week) Country	First published: March 8, 2019
	All My Favorite People Girl	-	-	-	-	-	Country46 (1 week) Country	First published: March 8, 2019 feat. Brothers Osborne
	Common girl	-	-	-	-	-	Country47 (1 week) Country	First published: March 8, 2019 feat. Brandi Carlile

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
2017	Craving You Life Changes	-	-	-	-	US39 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country3 (26 weeks) Country	First published: April 3, 2017 Sales: + 1,000,000, Thomas Rhett feat. Maren Morris
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:
2017	I'll be the moon black	-	-	-	-	-	Country40 (1 week) Country	Chart entry: April 23, 2016 Dierks Bentley feat. Maren Morris

Awards for music sales

Silver record  Japan 2020: for streaming The Middle Golden record  Australia 2019: for the single The Bones  France 2019: for the single The Middle  Canada 2017: for the single 80s Mercedes 2017: for the album Hero 2018: for the single I Could Use a Love Song 2019: for the single Rich  Sweden 2018: for the single The Middle

Platinum record  Belgium 2018: for the single The Middle  Brazil 2018: for the single The Middle  Denmark 2019: for the single The Middle  Italy 2018: for the single The Middle  Canada 2017: for the single My Church  Mexico 2018: for the single The Middle  New Zealand 2018: for the single The Middle

3 × platinum record  Australia 2018: for the single The Middle 4 × platinum record  Canada 2018: for the single The Middle

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	245,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	platinum1	30,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	-	platinum1	40,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	90,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	200,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	-	100,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	-	platinum1	50,000	fimi.it
Japan (RIAJ)	silver1	-	-	-	riaj.or.jp
Canada (MC)	-	4 × gold4th	5 × platinum5	560,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	-	platinum1	60,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	-	platinum1	30,000	nztop40.co.nz
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	20,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	11 × platinum11	9,756,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	-	platinum1	600,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	10 × gold10	26 × platinum26th

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1. ↑ Michael Bialas: Hero Worship: Maren Morris Can Begin Telling Her Musical Glory Story . In: Huffington Post . 3rd June 2016.
2. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/artist/2866905-Maren-Morris?filter_anv=0&subtype=Writing-Arrangement&type=Credits
3. ↑ Database of the CMA Awards ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2017 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. 
4. ↑ Billy Dukes: Maren Morris Makes EDM Debut With Zedd, 'The Middle' . In: Taste of Country . 23rd January 2018.
5. ↑ Gibson Johns: Maren Morris' 'GIRL' just broke a massive streaming record . AOL . 19th March 2019.
6. ↑ refhttps: //tasteofcountry.com/maren-morris-ryan-hurd-baby-boy/
7. ↑ https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/24/entertainment/maren-morris-ryan-hurd-baby-trnd/index.html
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: UK US

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)
• Maren Morris at Allmusic (English)
• Chart sources: UK US