Essex’s Megan McKenna new country single High Heeled Shoes/ Far Cry from
Love land #1 & #2
on UK iTunes and enjoy 2 weeks on the Official UK Singles Chart!
Megan McKenna’s new single High Heeled Shoes, released
September 6, 2017, sent her straight to the top of both UK Country iTunes Singles Chart and the UK iTunes all genre chart without
any radio airplay!
As a non-follower of Reality TV, it prompted the question
just who is Megan McKenna?
Well she’s a TOWIE/
Celebrity Big Brother 16 babe reality TV star!
She beat out P!nk
and Taylor Swift, despite only
releasing the song on Wednesday morning (Sept 6).
McKenna celebrated her chart-topping success on Twitter, posting:
“OMG I AM OVERWHELMED! I am Currently No.1 & 2 on iTunes! (iTunes | Amazon UK (was ranked #20) | Building Our Own Nashville Read Single Review)
Release Date: 6 Sept 2017
Songs: High Heeled Shoes/ Far Cry From Love
Label: Instrumental
2 Tracks/ Time: 7:37
Lyrics: https://genius.com
High Heeled Shoes Debut UK Country iTunes Shoes #1 (#2 overall UK Singles chart)
Far Cry from Love Debut UK Country iTunes #2 (#5 overall UK Singles chart)
CHART SUCCESS
Official UK Top 100
Singles Chart (Week Ending 14 September 2017)
(8 September 2017 - 14 September 2017)
"Look What You Made Me Do" the first single
from Taylor Swift's upcoming album
Reputation held at No.1 (46,411 sales, including 30,166 from sales-equivalent
streams + 16,245 pure sales)
Although making a significantly lower debut, reality TV
star Megan McKenna's High Heeled Shoes (No.43, 8,480
sales) and Far Cry From Love (No.53, 6,999 sales) were released less than 48 hours before the end of the
chart week, were #1 & #2 on UK iTunes, and outsold Swift and achieved
higher paid-for sales in that period.
The only other country single to appear on the Top 100 in 2017 so far was the late Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" (chart dated Aug 17, 2017) at #98.
It is something on a rarity the last 5-years to see a
country single on the Top 100 and hard to recall anything from a British
country artist.
Born in Cambridgeshire UK, Olivia Newton-John with "Banks of the Ohio" reached #6 UK
and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" peaked at #15
Dave Clark Five had a No.7
hit in the UK Singles Chart with Raymond Froggatt's "The Red Balloon" in 1968.
Peters and Lee were a
successful British folk and pop duo from the 1970s and their single "Welcome
Home" reached #1 in May 1973.
Tom Jones' "Green,
Green Grass of Home" (1966) was # 1 and his cover of Bobby Bare's
"Detroit City" reached #8 in 1967.
Frank Jennings came to
prominence in the 1970’s when country music in the UK was riding on the crest
of a wave. He won the TV talent show “Opportunity Knocks”. The Reading-based
singer led his band Frank Jennings
Syndicate higher than just about any other UK country act then or since
(until The Shires and Ward Thomas). They won TV’s Opportunity Knocks, were signed
to EMI Records and charted on the UK pop charts with "Me & My Guitar"
(#51) and also gained a gold disc along the way.
Despite BBC Radio 2 A/B playlisting over 10 singles for The
Shires and Ward Thomas nothing has charted in the top 100.
Official Charts.com: There's two things about Megan!: On
Monday Sept 11 the UK Official Charts reported that
Megan McKenna was in with a shot at scoring two songs in
this week's Top 40. Following her There's Something About Megan documentary on
ITV2, which saw her try her luck as a recording artist in Nashville, her
country tracks "High Heeled Shoes"
and "Far Cry From Love" were
standing at No.30 and 39.
(15 September 2017 - 21 September 2017)
In her second week chart frame McKenna's High
Heeled Shoes fell 43-56 with estimated sales 5,900;
2-week total 14,400 sales) and Far Cry From Love fell 53-72 with estimated sales 4,700 (2-week
total 11,700 sales)
Published Sept 20, 2017 Megan McKenna “High Heeled Shoes” (Official Music Video), 77,000 views in 24
hours!
Related Articles:
The Guardian: How reality star Megan McKenna knocked Taylor Swift off the top of the charts …
The Sun: MEGASTAR MEGS Megan McKenna ‘ready to sign huge record deal’ as she prepares to go
into the studio to ‘work on debut album’:
“The fact Megan was outselling some of the biggest singers in the world
without a music video or one single radio play is incredible.”….
Daily Mail: Yee-haw! Megan McKenna flaunts her pert posterior and long legs in
star-spangled Daisy Dukes during Nashville stay... as it's revealed she has
knocked Taylor Swift off the top of
the charts with her debut single…
OK!: TOWIE's Megan McKenna beats Pink and Taylor Swift to land number one on iTunes chart with
debut country single High Heeled Shoes: MEGAN McKenna recently revealed she was
planning to embark on a country music singing career.
FAN REACTION
Megan McKenna SOCIAL MEDIA Followers: Facebook (300K Followers) | Twitter (620K Followers) | Instagram (2 Million Followers) | Spotify (Currently 156K monthly listeners)
Megan’s 2 million
followers (including on Twitter: BBC
Radio 2's Bob Harris, Maverick
Magazine, country artist/actress Twinnie
and award winning and nominated Holloway
Road & Jade Helliwell) went
into meltdown over her happy news. OK!
"That's in 11
hours!!! Well done," one impressed follower wrote.
"I've bought
both songs. They are both amazing. Xx," another replied.
Wasn't a big country fan BUT then I heard High Heeled
Shoes and Far Cry From Love…..oh my god I'm obsessed!!!
Wasn't a big country fan BUT then I heard High Heeled Shoes and Far Cry From Love by @Megan_Mckenna_ and oh my god I'm obsessed!!! 😍👏🏻❤️— chloe ✨ (@_chloe__xoxo) 6 September 2017
Spotify also included her on the Very Nearly Nashville playlist alongside the likes of Thomas Rhett & Kesha!
After finding fame through Ex on the Beach and The Only
Way is Essex, McKenna is now pursuing a country music career.
She recently starred in three-part ITVBe spin-off series (www.itv.com/hub/), There’s
Something About Megan, which saw her head to Nashville to develop her
singing and song-writing skills.
ITVBe’s (Website) There's Something About Megan aired on Freeview/YouView 26 | Sky 149/Scotland 131 | Virgin 119 | Freesat 118. All 3 episodes were repeated back-to-back on Sunday Sept 10th. They are available on demand via ITV Hub
Megan said of the three-part series: “I can't wait to
spend this summer in Nashville. I have been a country music fan my whole life
so to go to the place where some of my favorite country music artists have
recorded really is a dream come true. - www.tellymix.co.uk
Earlier this month, McKenna wowed Loose Women viewers (>> YouTube) when she sang an
a capella version of Eva Cassidy’s Fields of Gold.
Her new song High Heeled Shoes was inspired by
her on-off relationship with her TOWIE co-star Pete Wicks.
During a session on her new show with professional songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman (Instagram), she said: "I feel like the song, where I want it to go would be explaining a place, like where I felt like last year – when stuff happened.” "I feel like I want to say in it, 'If you show me, and I feel like I can trust you with everything again, then it will work'.
After hearing Megan perform some of her original material for the first time in Nashville, Grammy award winning song-writer Beth Nielsen Chapman, offered to mentor Megan as a song writer, and together they created the emotional second track on this single “Far Cry From Love”.
When reflecting on the song Megan said: “This is a really heartfelt ballad which I
wrote, and it means so much to me. To be able to express my feelings in a song
is something I have always wanted to do. I’m sure there are so many girls and
guys out there who can relate to loving a person so much, yet the only person
that you think can help get you through the breakup is them but they’re the
problem and so can’t be the cure! It’s really personal to me and I’m so happy
with the song.”
What an amazing lady @bncmusic I can't wait for you guys the hear the full version #Afarcryfromlove #SomethingAboutMegan pic.twitter.com/RvFyWxAMkQ— Megan McKenna (@Megan_Mckenna_) 4 September 2017
This all comes after Megan revealed The X Factor judge Louis
Walsh is secretly mentoring her. She told reporters at the 2017 TV Choice Awards, "Louis Walsh and I talk a lot about my music,
and he's really happy with how it's going. Basically, he actually was one of
the people who said to me ages ago that I should go to Nashville and do a show.”
The Sun: TAKING ON TAYLOR Towie’s Megan McKenna reveals she’d love to be targeted on Taylor Swift’s
next revenge track after knocking her off the top spot
In the last episode of There’s Something About Megan,
the star performed four songs at her showcase in front of an audience of very
important people connected to the music industry. She admitted being nervous
before taking to the stage at the famous Station
Inn in a bid to secure a record deal - but it paid off as she wowed the
crowds with her voice. "I feel like
my final performance went really well," said Megan.
"Walking off the stage and seeing my mum and
everyone there, them being so proud and happy about it, it's just the best
feeling ever."
Megan did what was needed to impress the record label and was told after that High Heeled Shoes would be released as a single.
Talent agent Nick told her: "The amazing thing was, when you started to sing, you pulled the crowd
right in and that's what a great performer would do. "Tonight, you
showed me you won over the audience which is very hard to do in this town and
in America and the world. "The great thing about you is you have to be
first or you have to be different.
"There's no
question you're different but you could also be a first from your area of the
world to be successful as a country
musician."
High Heeled Shoes has now had radio play on Heart, Capital FM, Radio 1 and Bob Harris(OBE) added it to the curated BBC Radio 2 Country Playlist on Thurs Sept 14, 2017 – BBC Playlist.
Megan tweeted: Ahhhhhh play on Radio1 this morning! And
capital & heart yesterday, This is mad! And all thanks to you guys buying
my single!
Hollywoodlife.com Megan McKenna: 5 Things To Know About The Hot British Singer Who Dethroned
Taylor Swift
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On Tuesday Sept 12 at 11.30am Megan did an exclusive LIVE performance on Dan Wootton's Facebook Page
Dan is The Sun's
Associate Editor (Showbiz & TV). He brings the best entertainment news
in two daily columns in The Sun - the world famous Bizarre column and spin-off
Bizarre TV.
He is also the Showbiz Reporter on ITV's Lorraine show,
reporting breaking entertainment news and gossip and interviewing A-list stars
in the morning.
Towie's Megan McKenna performs live and answers your questions
The Only Way is Essex star turned country star Megan McKenna gives her first LIVE UK performance and answers your questions
Posted by Dan Wootton on Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Thankyou @DailyStarSunday for this amazing spread on my music and journey in Nashville! Love you all ❤️🌾🎼 pic.twitter.com/3ZM0MoyPud— Megan McKenna (@Megan_Mckenna_) 12 September 2017
Building Our Own Nashville Interview:
Megan McKenna talks country music, songwriting and her debut singles.
Here it is guys! High Heeled Shoes Music video 👢 https://t.co/ahdC3E3rdG— Megan McKenna (@Megan_Mckenna_) September 20, 2017
About Allen McKendree Palmer: Is the President and CEO of Palmer Global Ink an international network of Writers, Artists, Studio’s and Publishers dedicated to bridging the gap between the Historic Nashville Music Scene and world markets. Nashville is no longer just a Twang town and PGI is on the forefront of writing the next chapter of our storied tradition.
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