“ I wanna say a HUGE THANK U to Hailey Benedict who blew us away tonight!!!!!” – Keith Urban

Recognized as the 2023 SiriusXM Top of the Country Winner & a 2022 CCMA Interactive Artist of the Year, Hailey Benedict continues to make her mark as a rising talent in the Canadian country music industry. This dynamic, guitar-wielding singer-songwriter was named a 2022 Country Music Alberta Horizon Female Artist Of The Year as well as the first artist to simultaneously secure the iHeart Radio Future Star and Stingray Trending track features, which catapulted her single, "Wanted You To", to hit #25 on the Mediabase country charts. The song was the highest-charting independent CANCON single of 2021 and received the Horizon Single of The Year at the Country Music Alberta Awards.