McCready was then signed by Capitol Records. Soon after, McCready's record company dropped her. The album was a commercial failure, selling 144,000 copies. The first single, "All I Want Is Everything", failed to break the top 50. In 1999, McCready released I'm Not So Tough. The album spawned three singles, "What If I Do", "The Other Side of This Kiss", and "You'll Never Know". The next year, McCready released the album If I Don't Stay the Night. The fourth and final single, "A Girl's Gotta Do (What a Girl's Gotta Do)", peaked at No. 4. This song, in turn, was succeeded by "Maybe He'll Notice Her Now", a duet with Richie McDonald, then the lead vocalist of Lonestar. The album produced four chart singles on the country charts: the title track at No. 6, followed by her first and only Number One hit, " Guys Do It All the Time". Her debut album, Ten Thousand Angels, was released in 1996 and sold two million copies. When she was 18, McCready moved to Nashville, where she was signed by BNA Records. 1 hit " Guys Do It All the Time", as well as the Top 10 hits " Ten Thousand Angels" and " A Girl's Gotta Do (What a Girl's Gotta Do)".Īlthough she had not charted a single since 2002, McCready received significant media coverage regarding her troubled personal life and suicide attempts and her eventual death by suicide.īorn Malinda Gayle McCready in Fort Myers, Florida, McCready began singing in her local Pentecostal church at age 3 and graduated from high school at the age of 16 to begin her music career early. McCready's first four studio albums yielded twelve singles on the Billboard country singles charts. McCready's fifth and final studio album, I'm Still Here, was released in March 2010 on Iconic Records.
A self-titled fourth album followed in 2002 on Capitol Records. 1999's I'm Not So Tough, her final album for BNA, was less successful, and she left the label. Her debut album, 1996's Ten Thousand Angels, was released on BNA Records and was certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA, while 1997's If I Don't Stay the Night was certified Gold. Active from 1995 until her death in 2013, she recorded a total of five studio albums. Malinda Gayle McCready (November 30, 1975 – February 17, 2013) was an American country music singer.