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McCreery Receives His First Industry Award at the American Country Awards…

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There’s no denying that American Idol winner Scotty McCreery is a rising star in country music…

The 18-year-old part-Puerto Rican country singer was named Artist of the Year: New Artist at the second annual American Country Awards, held Monday night at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand.

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“This is my first award. It’s a daggone Telecaster,” he said before thanking Jesus and American Idol. Before delivering his acceptance speech, he performed his latest single “The Trouble With Girls“.

McCreery beat out The Band Perry, Jerrod Niemann, The Pistol Annies and Thompson Square to win the coveted award.

Country superstar Jason Aldean dominated the night with six awards, including Artist of the Year. Meanwhile, Carrie Underwood was the most recognized female artists with three awards, including Artist of the Year: Female.

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Meanwhile, McCreery’s debut album, Clear As Day, has been certified gold for racking up sales in excess of 500,000. And it only took the North Carolina-native two months to accomplish the feat.

Clear As Day currently tops the Billboard Country Albums chart, a spot it has held for five weeks.

“It’s huge! Every artist dreams of a gold album and works hard for it,” said McCreery, who . “So it’s a major accomplishment to have your debut album go gold. This is just incredible.”

McCreery: A “Clear as Day” Number 1…

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Scotty McCreery has more to celebrate than turning 18 this past weekend… The “American Idol” winner’s first studio album debuts at Number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

The part-Puerto Rican country crooner’s debut album, “Clear as Day” sold 197,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

“My head is just spinning,” says the North Carolina native. “It started out kind of low: They said 100,000 maybe. Then every day I saw the numbers climbing. It’s wild: It wasn’t a year ago that I was a normal cat, and now I’m number one on Billboard. It’s insane, it really is.”

McCreery’s first week sales of  the most for an American Idol winner since David Cook’s debut album sold 280,000 in its initial week back in November 2008.

He’s also the first champion to enter the charts at Number 1 with his debut album since second season champ Ruben Studdard’s “Soulful” topped the chart in 2003.

“McCreery is the first country act to debut at No. 1 with their first studio album, and at 18 years old, the youngest man to open at the top of the chart with his debut release.” Says Billboard’s Keith Claufield.

But that’s not all… He’s the first country act to debut at thetop of U.S. album chart with his first studio album and he’s the youngest male artist to go straight to Number 1 on his  first try. Prior to McCreery, then-20-year-old Omarion was the youngest male artist to score a Number debut album back in 2005 with “O.”