Tim McGraw

Tim McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the Soundscan era.

McGraw had 11 consecutive albums debut at Number One on the Billboard albums charts. Twenty-one singles hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He has won 3 Grammys, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association awards, 10 American Music Awards, and 3 People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with Faith Hill is the highest grossing tour in country music history, and one of the top five among all genres of music.

In 1992, he released his first hit, "Welcome to the Club", off his self-titled debut album. His second album, Not a Moment Too Soon, was released in 1994 with the singles "Indian Outlaw" and "Don't Take the Girl", which became McGraw's first No. 1 country hit. The following year, the album's title track became a No. 1 country single, while "Down on the Farm" reached No. 2, and "Refried Dreams" reached the top 5. The album sold over 6 million copies, topping the Billboard 200 as well as the country album charts. McGraw won Academy of Country Music awards for Album of the Year and Top New Male Vocalist in 1994.

All I Want, released in 1995, debuted at No. 1 on the country charts. The album sold over 2 million copies and reached the top 5 on the Billboard 200. "I Like It, I Love It" reached No. 1 on the country charts as the lead-off single, while "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" went to No. 1 in 1996. Other songs included "Can't Be Really Gone", "All I Want Is a Life", and "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It".

In 1996, McGraw headlined the most successful country tour of the year, The Spontaneous Combustion Tour, with Faith Hill as his supporting act.

His next album, Everywhere, was released in 1997 and reached No. 2 on the album charts and sold 4 million copies. "It's Your Love", "Everywhere", "Where the Green Grass Grows", and "Just to See You Smile" reached the top of the country charts. The Country Music Association awarded Everywhere its Album of the Year award for 1997.

A Place in the Sun was released in 1999, debuting atop both the US pop and country album charts and selling 3 million albums. It featured another four chart-topping singles on the country charts including "Please Remember Me", "Something Like That", "My Best Friend", and "My Next Thirty Years". "Some Things Never Change" reached No. 7 on the country chart. He also contributed a song for the Grammy-winning tribute album to Bob Wills: Ride With Bob.

McGraw recorded two duets with his wife, Faith Hill, in the late 1990s, both of which appeared on her albums. "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me", off of her 1998 album Faith, and "Let's Make Love" from her 1999 album Breathe, which win a Grammy Award in 2000 for Best Country Vocal Collaboration.

In 2000, McGraw released his Greatest Hits album, which topped the charts for nine weeks and sold almost 6 million copies. In the latter half of the year, he and Hill went out on the Soul2Soul Tour.

McGraw's next album, Set This Circus Down, was released in April 2001, and featured "Grown Men Don't Cry", "Angry All the Time" (with Faith Hill), "The Cowboy in Me", and "Unbroken" which all went to number one on the country charts.

In 2002, McGraw bucked country music traditions by recording his album Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors with his tour band The Dancehall Doctors. The album debuted at No. 2 on the country albums charts, and featured the singles "Real Good Man", "She's My Kind of Rain", and "Red Ragtop".

Live Like You Were Dying was released in 2004 and the title track was dedicated to his father Tug McGraw, who died of a brain tumor earlier in the year. Live Like You Were Dying spent seven non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Billboard, and went on to become the biggest hit single of the year. It also became one of the most awarded songs/records by winning ACM Single and Song of the Year, CMA Single and Song of the Year, and a Grammy.

In late 2004, his duet with Nelly on "Over and Over" became a crossover hit and spent 10 weeks atop the Top 40 chart. The song also spent a week at the top of the charts in the United Kingdom, becoming McGraw's first British hit single and Nelly's third number one hit in the country after Dilemma and My Place.

In April 2006, McGraw and Hill began another Soul2Soul II Tour. The tour grossed nearly $89 million and sold almost 1.1 million tickets, making it the top grossing tour in the history of country. Along with Kenny Chesney, McGraw would contribute a version of Tracy Lawrence's song "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" on Lawrence's album For the Love.

McGraw released his eleventh album, Let It Go, in March 2007. The album's debut single, "Last Dollar (Fly Away)", reached No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Country Album chart, marking his fourth No. 1 top 200 album and ninth No. 1 country album. McGraw and Hill toured again in the Soul2Soul 2007 tour.

In 2008, McGraw was featured on the Def Leppard album Songs from the Sparkle Lounge, having also co-written the first single, "Nine Lives". He would tour solo during that year for his Live Your Voice tour and in late October. McGraw released his third greatest-hits package, Greatest Hits 3.

McGraw's twelfth studio album, Southern Voice, was released in October 2009, and led by the single "It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You". A fourth greatest hits compilation, Number One Hits, was released as well.

"Better Than I Used to Be", the second single from his newest album, Emotional Traffic, was relased in November 2011 and the album was released in January 2012.

In December 2011, McGraw released his first Christmas single, "Christmas All Over the World", on his own label records. In May 2012, he signed with Big Machine Records.