“Bottle Rockets” features Hootie & The Blowfish
Multi-platinum artist Scotty McCreery and the iconic Hootie & The Blowfish have taken the top spot on both the Billboard and Mediabase Country Airplay Charts with their smash hit of the summer, “Bottle Rockets.” The achievement marks McCreery’s seventh No. 1 single and was his fastest chart-topping track of his career to date, averaging six million streams per week. “Bottle Rockets” also spent three weeks atop the Music Row Country Radio Breakout Chart.
In a three-decades-plus career featuring massive worldwide hits and millions of albums sold (including their RIAA certified 22-times platinum Cracked Rear View album), “Bottle Rockets” is also the first ever No. 1 single for Hootie & The Blowfish.
The song was written by McCreery, Brent Anderson, Derek George, Jeremy Bussey, Monty Criswell, Frank Rogers, Bobby Hamrick, Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim Sonefeld, and produced by Rogers. Hootie & The Blowfish re-recorded their beloved “Hold My Hand” specifically for “Bottle Rockets.”
“Any time your song hits No. 1, it feels great. To be able to hit No.1 with a song featuring a band you have loved your whole life is beyond amazing! Thanks to Hootie & The Blowfish for joining me on this song, thanks to Triple Tigers Records and Triple 8 Management for all their hard work, thanks to country radio and the streaming services, and thanks to the fans who have supported me from day one,” McCreery shares.
The music video for “Bottle Rockets” was released on September 19th, premiering on Paramount/CMT’s New York City Times Square billboard. Filmed outside Charleston, South Carolina, on the Isle of Palms, the laid-back, oceanside video encapsulates the universal feeling of summer and creating lifetimes of memories with friends and family. The video was directed by McCreery’s frequent collaborator, filmmaker Jeff Ray, and produced by Kelsey Pribilski-Ray.
“Bottle Rockets” is featured on McCreery’s recently released EP, Scooter & Friends, as the perfect soundtrack to summer. The five-song collection also includes McCreery’s collaborations with one of his greatest musical heroes, R&B icon Charlie Wilson (“Once Upon a Bottle of Wine”) and with Country music hitmaker Lee Brice (“Whiskey Said”).
Recently, McCreery and his wife Gabi welcomed their second son, Olivier Cooke, on September 18th. Big brother Avery will turn three in October.
Up next, he will be co-headlining the Two for the Road Tour with fellow country star, Dustin Lynch. The run kicks off this November.
It was recently announced that next year, McCreery will be performing at C2C UK in London, Belfast, and Glasgow on March 13-15, 2026. He will also headline C2C Berlin one night between March 6-8.
