Maren Morris has notched a major milestones as her debut album Hero has debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country Album Sales chart.

The first album from the young singer-songwriter was also co-produced by Maren and sold 45,000 total units (of which 37,000 are pure album sales) in the first week of release. That put Hero not only at the top of the country album sales chart, but it also landed the album number five on the Billboard 200 all-genre album sales chart.

The debut single from the album “My Church” made it to the top 10 on the country radio airplay charts and has been certified Gold for sales of the single in excess of 500,000 copies.

Maren is very excited that Hero is now available everywhere, “It’s just a piece of work that has been sitting with me for the last few months, but it’s always exciting to put up new music,” she says, adding, “you sort of sit with it, and you’ve written it, and you’ve been in the studio with it for a long time getting to release it out into the world and it being in people’s collections now … is a really exciting feeling because you get to have feedback, and you get to hear them to get back to you it shows. It’s just one of the best parts of the processes, the fans finally getting to hear something.”

Hero has been made available on a traditional vinyl LP and the “music junkie” in Maren loves that, ““I think as just a music junkie myself having my album out, and also having opportunity to make HERO on vinyl, it just feels so validating to me because I love to listen to music in every capacity. Whether it’s on the radio, streaming, it’s my personal catalog, or an actual record on a turntable, you know it’s just surreal that I get to now walk into a store or a record store and see my face there it is just a dream come true.”

Maren is part of the Keith Urban “2016 RipCORD World Tour” which will be making a stop here at the Coliseum in downtown Bloomington, IL Saturday, November 12. Get complete concert and ticket details here.

Congratulations to Maren Morris on the debut at #1 for her album Hero.

By: Buck Stevens