40 Fun Facts About Maddie & Tae

Maddie & Tae's chart-topping 2014 debut single took aim at which trend in Nashville radio hits?

Bro-country was the wave of male-sung hits that the duo felt reduced women to props. Their reply referenced a string of those songs and went to No. 1.

In Maddie & Tae's hit Die from a Broken Heart, the heartbroken narrator phones whom for advice?

Her mother takes the call, and Maddie said it sounded just like her own conversations with her mom. Co-writer Jonathan Singleton brought the title to the writing session.

Tae of Maddie & Tae is the sister of Mason Dye, who played jock Jason Carver in which Netflix hit?

Stranger Things made Mason Dye a main antagonist of its fourth season. He had already acted for his sister, starring in one of the duo's 2015 music videos.

Maddie & Tae sang No Place Like You in a 2015 Texas-set episode of which Disney Channel sitcom?

Girl Meets World sent Riley and her friends to Texas for a three-part story. The duo appear as themselves and play a song from their debut album.

Maddie & Tae and Runaway June were the opening acts on which superstar's 2019 Cry Pretty Tour 360?

Carrie Underwood picked two all-female acts to open her arena tour. She held its start until May 2019 because she was pregnant when she announced it.

Maddie & Tae first met as teenagers in 2010 at a showcase held in which Texas city?

Dallas sat roughly halfway between their two hometowns. Each sang that night, they hit it off afterwards, and at 15 they were making weekend trips to Nashville.

Which rock frontman was among the first signings, with Maddie & Tae, to the duo's debut label?

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith signed to the same revived imprint, which made the teenage duo labelmates of a rock veteran more than forty years their senior.

What is really happening between the two people in Maddie & Tae's 2018 single Friends Don't?

Falling in love is the twist: the song runs through the mixed signals that mere pals never send. Billboard called it a friendship on the verge of romance.

Which Maddie & Tae single retells a real outing at 16 with city boys who arrived overdressed?

Shut Up and Fish grew out of a fishing trip where the boys turned up in white V-necks and couldn't use their own poles. Tae's actor brother stars in the video.

When Maddie & Tae announced their split in December 2025, Tae said she would focus on what?

Life at home won out: Tae planned to step back and raise her children, while Maddie said she would keep making music on her own.

Maddie & Tae made their debut on which long-running stage and radio show in September 2014?

The Grand Ole Opry booked them while their first single was still climbing the chart. It would not reach No. 1 for another three months.

Maddie Font grew up in Texas, but in which neighboring state was Tae of Maddie & Tae raised?

Oklahoma is home for Tae, who grew up in the small city of Ada. Country star Blake Shelton was born in the same town.

Maddie Font, the lead singer of Maddie & Tae, was raised in which Houston-area Texas city?

Sugar Land was Maddie's home until she finished high school in 2013. She then moved to Nashville with Tae to chase a record deal.

Friends Don't was the lead single from which Maddie & Tae album, their second, released in 2020?

The Way It Feels arrived almost two years after the single. The album was all but finished by the summer of 2018 and then sat waiting for a release date.

Friends Don't was Maddie & Tae's first single for which record label, their home from 2018?

Mercury Nashville picked the pair up after their original label shut down. The song ended a two-year gap between singles.

Maddie & Tae were the first act signed to which revived 1950s record label in 2014?

Dot Records, once the home of Pat Boone, was brought back by Big Machine in 2014. It closed again in 2017 and left the pair without a deal.

Maddie & Tae's debut single won them which prize at the 2015 CMA Awards?

Video of the Year went to Girl in a Country Song, their only win from three nominations that night. The pair also performed at the ceremony.

Which Maddie & Tae single earned the duo a trophy at the 2022 CMT Music Awards?

Woman You Got took the Duo/Group prize for its playful clip. It beat entries from Dan + Shay, Old Dominion and Brothers Osborne.

A 2021 Maddie & Tae video featuring their husbands recreates Risky Business and which teen comedy?

Clueless came out in 1995, the year both singers were born. Risky Business is older still: the Tom Cruise film reached cinemas in 1983.

Which star duets with Maddie & Tae on Lay Here with Me, from their 2020 second album?

Dierks Bentley already knew the pair, who had opened his Sounds of Summer Tour in 2015. Rolling Stone called their duet a harmony-rich ballad.

Maddie & Tae were the first female duo since which act to top the radio chart with a debut single?

The Wreckers, the duo of Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp, did it in 2006 with Leave the Pieces. No female duo had managed the feat before them.

Which Maddie & Tae single pokes fun at a real mean girl who often left Maddie in tears?

Sierra pokes fun at a bully from Maddie's own past, who sent her home crying at least once a week. It was the last single from the debut album.

Maddie & Tae gave their single Fly its television debut on which late-night talk program in 2015?

The Tonight Show, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, had the pair on three days before the song reached radio. They played it with dueling guitars and close harmony.

Maddie & Tae performed their hit Fly at which televised New York City holiday tradition in 2016?

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was staging its 90th edition that year. The slot put the song in front of a national NBC audience on a holiday morning.

Where did Maddie & Tae film a second video for their single Fly, released in January 2016?

A children's hospital in Nashville, Monroe Carell Jr. at Vanderbilt, hosted the shoot. Patients perform on stage and appear with their doctors.

Which award-winning producer and guitarist produced Maddie & Tae's debut album Start Here?

Dann Huff played guitar on Michael Jackson and Whitesnake albums in the 1980s before turning producer. He adds banjo, dobro and guitars to this record too.

Maddie & Tae wrote their debut single with which Nashville mentor, who also co-produced it?

Aaron Scherz mentored the pair as teenagers, and Tae credits him with teaching them to stay authentic. The three wrote Girl in a Country Song in 90 minutes.

Maddie & Tae's first UK visit was the 2016 C2C festival at which London venue?

The O2 Arena put them on the main stage on a bill with Little Big Town and Sam Hunt. They played the festival's Dublin leg as well.

Maddie & Tae sing on a cover of Desperately on which deep-voiced singer's 2020 album of covers?

Josh Turner built his album Country State of Mind entirely from covers. This one revisits a song George Strait took to No. 6 in 2004.

Maddie & Tae joined which pop singer on I Do, a 2024 single from his album Monster?

Andy Grammer, the voice behind Honey, I'm Good, brought the pair in for the duet. It was one of three singles from his fifth studio album.

Friends Don't missed radio's top 30, but the RIAA certified Maddie & Tae's single as what in 2025?

Platinum status marks a million units in sales and streams. The song got there seven years after its release, despite stalling at No. 33 on the airplay chart.

Friends Don't was first collected on which five-track Maddie & Tae EP, released in April 2019?

One Heart to Another came out a year before the full album. All five of its songs, and five more from a second EP that autumn, ended up on that record.

Maddie & Tae wrote Friends Don't with Justin Ebach and which other Nashville songwriter?

Jon Nite, a Texan who entered his first songwriting contest on a dare, has also written radio No. 1s for Luke Bryan and Gabby Barrett.

Which director made the music videos for both Friends Don't and Maddie & Tae's debut single?

TK McKamy set the Friends Don't clip at a late-night house party, with each singer following her own love interest.

Which singer guests on Maddie & Tae's 2022 ballad Don't Make Her Look Dumb?

Morgane Stapleton sings harmony in the band of her husband, Chris. Here she joins a ballad that warns a friend's careless boyfriend to do better.

Which writer of Tim McGraw's Humble and Kind co-wrote and sings on Maddie & Tae's The Other Side?

Lori McKenna wrote Humble and Kind for her husband and their five kids. One review called The Other Side something of a sequel to the duo's early single Fly.

Which songwriter, the husband of Tae, produced most of Maddie & Tae's final album Love & Light?

Josh Kerr produced the majority of its 16 tracks and co-wrote several, including the title song. The album draws on both singers starting families.

Maddie & Tae co-wrote Boomerang, a track on which singer and actress's 2015 album Thirty One?

Jana Kramer, known to TV viewers from One Tree Hill, recorded it for her second album. One reviewer ranked it among the record's strongest cuts.

Maddie & Tae first crossed paths as teenagers because both took lessons from the same what?

Vocal coach is right, though Maddie later said the man turned out to be a snake. His student showcase was where the two first heard each other sing.

Under which name did the teenage Maddie & Tae busk in Nashville before settling on their own names?

Sweet Aliana was dropped for sounding too cute and too childish. Under that name the 15-year-olds had busked in front of Nashville's Hard Rock.