Maddie & Tae

A Nashville debut

Maddie Marlow, from Sugar Land, Texas, and Taylor Dye, from Ada, Oklahoma, met in 2010 through the same vocal coach and at a Dallas showcase, and were first called Sweet Aliana. They moved to Nashville after high school in 2013, working with the Big Machine writer and producer Aaron Scherz, who wrote with them mornings and coached them in his basement. They wrote "Girl in a Country Song" with Scherz on March 17, 2014. They signed to Dot Records in June 2014, the first act on the revived label, and played the Grand Ole Opry for the first time on September 23, 2014.

The self-titled EP came out on November 4, 2014 and the debut album Start Here on August 28, 2015, having been delayed from June to get the sound right. "Fly", "Shut Up and Fish" and "Sierra" followed. They won the CMA's Music Video of the Year in 2015, played Country to Country at the O2 in London in March 2016, supported Brad Paisley that year and appeared on Forbes's 30 Under 30. Dot closed in 2017 and they moved to Mercury Nashville in 2018, with "Die from a Broken Heart" (2019) a second number one, per the official bio. The Way It Feels (April 10, 2020), Through the Madness Vol. 1 and 2 (2022), What a Woman Can Do (2024) and Love & Light (May 2, 2025) followed.

They announced on December 8, 2025, after 15 years, that they would stop performing as a duo, saying it was not a breakup, with Maddie continuing solo. The last show was in late April 2026. MusicRow counted 13 CMA nominations, 11 ACM and six CMT. Setlist.fm lists 346 setlists, with covers including Diamond Rio's "Meet in the Middle" and Rihanna's "Umbrella".