Thanks to the success of “Cruise,” Florida Georgia Line won a slew of awards in 2013. At the ACM Awards, the duo snagged new artist of the year and new vocal duo or group of the year. At the CMT Music Awards, “Cruise” won duo video of the year and breakthrough video of the year. At the CMA Awards, FGL won vocal duo of the year and “Cruise” was named single of the year. At the American Music Awards, the Nelly remix of “Cruise” won single of the year.

A year later, at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, “Cruise” continued its winning streak when it was named top country song.

FGL teamed up with pop star Bebe Rexha for her smash All Your Fault: Pt. 2 track “Meant to Be,” which reached No. 1 on Hot Country Songs on Dec. 16, 2017, and eventually logged a record-breaking 50 weeks on top. The track also soared to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending three weeks in the runner-up position.

Hubbard and Kelley each co-wrote more than half the tracks on Country, which spans 19 songs, including the singles “Talk You Out of It,” “Sittin’ Pretty” and “Colorado.” The pair continued their affinity for wide-ranging features on the album, with Jason Derulo, Jason Aldean and Hardy among the guest stars.

The album entered Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart (dated March 2, 2019) at No. 1, earning 50,000 equivalent album units (29,000 in traditional album sales) in its first week, also reaching No. 4 on the Billboard 200.

It’s like “a variety pack – there is a little something for everybody: a love song, party songs, and songs that bring us together,” said FGL’s Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley of the 2020 EP. “We’ve been working real hard in the studio, and are just super excited to have new music out.”

The six-song compilation was co-produced by Corey Crowder and featured the single “I Love My Country.”

In a nearly 10-minute video call that the country duo shared on their social media, Kelley explained how the ongoing pandemic gave him a lot of extra time at home for some “soul-searching” and a nice break from songwriting before he got back into the swing of things.

“Me and you have had conversations three or four years ago, and this has kind of been a lifelong dream of mine. But I kinda felt like I started writing an album once I started writing again in August and had a couple of songs that I started writing that I just felt like maybe I’m supposed to sing these and probably have a project, an outlet for these to come out on,” he said. “We talked about that before, and just the timing wasn’t right. All the dots weren’t really connected, everything wasn’t in line.”

“Like BK said, timing’s everything and we’ve been on a 10-year journey together. We wouldn’t change it for the world. And we’re gonna continue our journey,” Hubbard responded. “We’ve kind of created this freedom around ourselves to where we can do whatever we want to do creatively and musically, so it’s a lot of fun…. It’s a beautiful place to be, like BK said, to be able to venture out and have a voice of our own and have an individuality a little bit. We’ve always been a package deal.”

The duo clarified that they’re not breaking up and still plan to tour together in the new year once it’s safe to do so.

Kelley released his solo album Sunshine State of Mind in June 2021 and Hubbard released his self-titled debut solo album in 2023.

Hubbard teamed up with Tim McGraw for the upbeat, inspirational anthem “Undivided,” which Hubbard wrote with Chris Loocke while reflecting on his personal quarantine in his tour bus after testing positive for COVID-19 (which made FGL unable to perform at the CMA Awards in 2020 along with four other performers).

The duo performed together at the Minnesota State Fair in September 2022, but earlier that year, Hubbard and Kelley told People that the duo were going on hiatus.

“I think ‘taking a break’ is the proper term, as opposed to breaking up,” Hubbard told the outlet during a preview of the opening of the Florida Georgia Line exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame.

“We’re not going our separate ways,” Kelley added. “We’re taking a break from recording our music. We’re being artists. We love creating. And so a couple years back, we started writing without each other and trying different writers, and now we’re both doing that with our music.”

The following year, Hubbard released his debut self-titled solo album.

Long before FGL officially reunited, there were signs of a potential reunion. In January 2026, Kelley posted a video on Instagram of himself and the words “after going on the hike with T-Hubb” that then flowed into a video of Jon Hamm as his Your Friends & Neighbors character in a club. The video sparked comments from several of their fellow country artists, including HARDY, who wrote, “Do I need to start writing FGL songs again?” and ERNEST, who commented, “The hike heard round the world.”

FGL made its first performance in approximately four years, when the pair made a surprise appearance at a party for Jason Aldean during Country Radio Seminar in March 2026. They performed Aldean’s “You Make It Easy,” which Kelley and Hubbard are co-writers on.

In June 2026, Florida Georgia Line revealed they signed with The Core Entertainment for management.

The Core Entertainment, led by co-founders/co-CEOs Simon Tikhman and Kevin “Chief” Zaruk, also manages Nickelback, Dan + Shay, Bailey Zimmerman, Nate Smith, Cameron Whitcomb and Josh Ross, among others.