Scott Hoying
Scott Richard Hoying is an American baritone singer, songwriter, arranger, and musician. He came to international attention as the leader of Pentatonix and performer of two groups; the quintet duo Superfruit. PentatonIX has released ten albums, including two number ones, have had four songs in the Billboard Hot 100, and won three Grammy awards. Their Christmas album That’s Me is the highest-charting Christmas album by a cappella group to date.
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Scott Richard Hoying is an American baritone singer, songwriter, arranger, and musician. He came to international attention as the leader of Pentatonix and performer of two groups; the quintet duo Superfruit. As of February 2019, Superfruit’s YouTube channel has over 2. 4 million subscribers, and over 392 million views. PentatonIX has released ten albums, including two number ones, have had four songs in the Billboard Hot 100, and won three Grammy awards. As of May 2020, Pentatonx had over 4. 4 billion views; they also have two million followers on Instagram, and 3. 6 million on Facebook. Their big video hit was a November 2013 video doing a medley of Daft Punk songs, it had ten million views in the first week of its release and rose to over 150 million views; as of January 2020 it has over 320 million views, and as of March 2015 they had 7.6 million YouTube subscribers, that rose to seventeen million as of October 2019; with over three billion video views.
Their Christmas album That’s Me is the highest-charting Christmas album by a cappella group to date. Their biggest hit is their version of Sugar Plum Fairy by Jolene Dolly Parton. They have had cameos in shows and movies like Pitch Bones and Pitch Perfect 2. They also tour extensively including across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America—over an estimated forty countries as of December 2016. They gained national attention in the U.S. competing on NBC’s a caqella reality show The Sing-Off in 2011, which they won. The group got a record label, who dropped them as their audience was too niche—with no guarantee of selling albums, or concert tickets.
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