16 SEPTEMBER 2024 (TORONTO, ON) – Big Loud Records’ MacKenzie Porter dominated at the 2024 CCMA Awards on Saturday night (9/14), pulling triple duty as co-host, performer, and 6X nominee, and walking away with the first two solo CCMA award wins of her career.
“I’ve been saying that this was my ‘yes’ weekend,” Porter reflects. “This was my 12th time at the CCMAs; I’ve been nominated 28 times. For me to get to host and to finally win two solo awards for the first time, it just feels like everything finally fell into place and all of the work my team and I have put in over the last decade plus is paying off in real time.”
“For me to win Female Artist of the Year the same year that I had my daughter, Bowie – it makes everything that much more meaningful and important,” she continues. “So to anyone out there who has heard ‘no’ over and over again, your ‘yes’ is coming, too, and this weekend proves that.”
See photos of MacKenzie Porter’s winning weekend at the 2024 CCMAs here. Pre-add / pre-save “Coming Home To You (Bigger Houses)” here, and download single art here.
Celebrating the banner moment, the triple threat co-host announces today a reimagination of fan favorite debut album cut
“Coming Home To You” with a twist, adding fellow 2X 2024 CCMA winner
Owen Riegling and making it a duet as
“Coming Home To You (Bigger Houses).”
First released as an early grat track previewing her April-released, full-length record
Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart, “Coming Home To You” speaks to the stage of life Porter is in as a wife, daughter, friend, and first-time mom. Marrying her signature “sound that mixes strength and vulnerability” (
Billboard) with Riegling’s pure vocal tone, the dual perspective take on the heartwarming song elevates it to new heights.
“This song really does speak to the moment I’m living right now, so to bring it to life in a new way was special,” Porter says. “The first time I heard the demo on this one, I heard that it could be a duet if we found the right person to do it with. I love Owen’s voice; he’s such a talent, and he just got married so it felt like a perfect ‘right place right time’ kind of fit.”
“As someone who just got married to my best friend Liv, I connected with the song right away,” Riegling adds. “It doesn’t matter how big the house is, how green the grass is, how white the fence is, if I didn’t have her to share it with it’s not home. Thanks to MacKenzie for asking me to be on this song.”
Written by Tofer Brown, Lauren Hungate, Caroline Watkins, and Emily Weisband, and produced by 2024 CCMA
Producer of the Year winner Joey Moi,
“Coming Home To You (Bigger Houses)” releases Oct. 18.
ABOUT MACKENZIE PORTER
Rising to international acclaim with a distinct country-pop shimmer, Canada-born, Nashville-based rising star MacKenzie Porter’s sound knows no borders. Making a statement with her just-released, 19-track Big Loud Records debut,
Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart, Porter shines across the project
EUPHORIA. Magazine praises as having “a song on it for everyone.” The 2022
MusicRow Discovery Artist of the Year has earned global buzz for her “clear sound that instantly cuts deep”
(CMT), earning nominations at the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, CMT Awards, JUNO Awards, and has earned a whopping 28 CCMA Awards nominations, including a nod for
Entertainer of the Year. This fall, she co-hosted the CCMAs in Edmonton, Alberta, alongside Thomas Rhett.
The sparkling talent has made high-profile global appearances on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CBC q, The Morning Show, and many more. Porter broke out in 2022 with chart-dominating, six-week U.S. No. 1 “Thinking ‘Bout You” with duet partner Dustin Lynch, building on international success as the first female this century to have six No. 1 songs at Canadian country radio and adding to over 920 million global on-demand streams. The quadruple threat (singer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist / actor) stars across both stage and screen, part of the cast of Netflix’s cult-followed sci-fi television series Travelers and a series regular in AMC’s Hell On Wheels, acting when she’s not impressing with her “mesmerizing vocals and hook-driven songs” (Billboard). Touring the globe opening for Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney, Walker Hayes, Jordan Davis, Brad Paisley, Dallas Smith, Rascal Flatts, and more, MacKenzie wrapped her own Canadian headline tour earlier this year, and opened for Parker McCollum, Keith Urban, and Brett Young this summer.
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