Dan + Shay (pronounced as "Dan and Shay") is an American country music duo composed of vocalists and songwriters Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney. They are signed to Warner Records Nashville and have released four albums, Where It All Began, Obsessed, Dan + Shay. and Good Things.
Of their nine singles; five have topped the Country Airplay chart and two have topped the Hot Country Songs chart.
From 2019 to 2021, the duo won three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for the songs "Tequila", "Speechless", and "10,000 Hours".
On October 14, 2013, the debut single, "19 You + Me", was released to country radio. The song received a positive review at Taste of Country which praised the "warm details" and "emotion."
Their debut album, Where It All Began, was released on April 1, 2014, which Orton produced with Scott Hendricks.
In August 2015, the duo announced the Just the Right Kind of Crazy Tour across the Midwest and eastern United States. Their sophomore album's first single, "From the Ground Up", was released to country radio in February 2016. The album's second single, "How Not To", was released to country radio on September 26, 2016. It reached number one on the Country Airplay chart in July 2017. The album's third single, "Road Trippin'", was released to country radio on July 17, 2017.
On October 4, 2019, they released "10,000 Hours", a collaboration with Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Bieber, after his and Hailey Bieber's wedding in South Carolina on September 30, 2019. The song debuted at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. The duo co-wrote Eric Ethridge's 2020 single "Dream Girl". On July 31, 2020, the duo returned with the single, "I Should Probably Go to Bed". They then came back with the single "Glad You Exist", which was released on February 5, 2021. On July 16, 2021, the duo announced their fourth album Good Things while releasing the album's title single "Good Things" and revealing the album's release date of August 13, 2021.
