On The Row: MacKenzie Porter Shares New Music From Upcoming Album

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MacKenzie Porter. Photo: Bree Marie Fish

Big Loud Records artist MacKenzie Porter recently dropped by the MusicRow office to share some new music from her upcoming debut album. The 16-track project, titled Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart, is due out April 26.

After having plenty of success in her homeland of Canada, Porter made her way to Nashville in 2014 and connected with Big Loud Partner and hit producer Joey Moi. Once signed to the label, Porter had success with hits such as “These Days” and “Seeing Other People,” but broke out in a big way in 2021 when she joined Dustin Lynch on his duet “Thinking ‘Bout You.”

Pictured (L-R): MusicRow’s LB Cantrell and Liza Anderson; MacKenzie Porter; MusicRow’s Sherod Robertson, Madison Hahnen and John Nix Arledge

The six-week No. 1 at U.S. country radio built on her momentum from up north, where she’s already notched six No. 1 songs. Porter has earned 873 million global on-demand streams, just wrapped her first headlining tour and won the 2022 subscriber-voted MusicRow Discovery Artist of the Year award. She has also nabbed nominations from the American Music Awards and CCMA Awards.

Now she is gearing up to release her debut album, six years in the making. She is also pregnant with her first child, and is due in just a few weeks.

Porter shared a few songs off the new album with the MusicRow staff, including the reflective title track, the wistful “Easy To Miss,” the romantic “Coming Home To You” and the stoic “Pay Me Back In Change.” All were outstanding.

She talked about how her album has come together over the last six years, sharing that she was grateful for the time she spent on it, as it allowed her to find her tribe of co-collaborators who truly knew her, such as Parker Welling, Lydia Vaughn and Emily Weisband.

Pictured (L-R): MusicRow’s Sherod Robertson & MacKenzie Porter

“You get to the point after being in town for a while where you want to write with friends. They know you—they know how you feel and your situations,” Porter said. “They knew what was missing on the project because they had heard it all. There’s some amazing women in this town.”

Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart also includes fan favorite “Pickup,” which earned Porter a 2023 CMT Music Awards nomination for Breakthrough Female Video of the Year, as well as the already-released “Bet You Break My Heart.”

Porter is managed by Big Loud, published by Sony Music Publishing and booked by CAA.

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