Scotty McCreery

WHEELING — Scotty McCreery is returning to Wheeling’s Capitol Theatre on Friday, Dec. 1.

The 2011 American Idol winner and ACM New Artist of the Year last performed in the Ohio Valley at the Capitol Theatre in 2017.

McCreery’s current album “Same Truck” contains his No. 1 RIAA Gold-certified singles “You Time” and “Damn Strait,” and his current single “It Matters to Her.” McCreery co-wrote 10 of the 12 songs on “Same Truck.”

The North Carolina native achieved new heights in the last few years by earning three back-to-back No. 1 hits from his most recent album “Seasons Change,” the RIAA Gold-certified project which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Album chart: the RIAA Double Platinum-certified “Five More Minutes,” the RIAA Platinum-certified “This Is It,” which stayed at the top of the charts for two weeks, and RIAA Gold-certified “In Between.”

McCreery co-wrote all 11 songs on “Seasons Change,” which Rolling Stone named as one of the “40 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2018.”

He’s earned one Double Platinum, four Platinum and two Gold singles; won the 10th season of “American Idol” in 2011; was named the ACM New Artist of the Year in 2011; won the CMT Music Award for Breakthrough Video of the Year (“The Trouble with Girls”) in 2012; American Country Awards for New Artist of the Year in 2011 and Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2013.

McCreery released his first book, “Go Big or Go Home: The Journey Toward the Dream,” in 2016; it was re-released in paperback in 2020.

Tickets are available at CapitolTheatreWheeling.com. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 11 a.m. today, Friday, July 14.

For more information, visit CapitolTheatreWheeling.com or call the WesBanco Arena and Capitol Theatre box office at 304-233-4470.