{"id":162,"date":"2024-03-14T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2024-03-14T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:50:52","slug":"ashley-cooke-gains-momentum-as-2024-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/ashley-cooke-gains-momentum-as-2024-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"ASHLEY COOKE GAINS MOMENTUM AS 2024 HEATS UP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">SKYROCKETING YEAR CONTINUES WITH FIRST-EVER CMT MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATION FOR<em>&nbsp;BREAKTHROUGH FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR (\u201cyour place\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cyour place\u201d SOARS INSIDE COUNTRY RADIO&#8217;S TOP 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">COOKE HAS THE SECOND-FASTEST RISING SINGLE INSIDE COUNTRY RADIO&#8217;S TOP 20 ONLY BEHIND GENRE JUGGERNAUT&nbsp;<strong>JELLY ROLL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">THE IHEARTCOUNTRY ON THE VERGE ACT COUNTS NEARLY&nbsp;300&nbsp;MILLION GLOBAL ON-DEMAND STREAMS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>LOS ANGELES TIMES<\/em>&nbsp;IDENTIFIES COOKE AS \u201cA PROMISING NASHVILLE UP-AND-COMER\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NASHVILLE, TENN.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Heating up alongside the year itself, Big Loud Records \/ Back Blocks Music riser&nbsp;<strong>Ashley Cooke<\/strong>&nbsp;is on a skyrocket this spring. Propelled by a sophomore single speedily rising the charts in Top 20 smash&nbsp;<strong>\u201cyour place,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;nearing 300 million global on-demand streams, a just-announced 2024 CMT Music Awards nomination for&nbsp;<em>Breakthrough Female Video of the Year (<\/em>\u201cyour place\u201d), and more accolades piling high, Cooke&#8217;s momentum is red-hot, sealing her place as \u201ca promising Nashville up-and-comer\u201d&nbsp;<em>(Los Angeles Times<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking country radio by storm, current single&nbsp;<strong>\u201cyour place\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;is a story in and of itself. Blasting into the Top 20 in just ten weeks, the hot-rising hit puts Cooke in the company of genre titan&nbsp;<strong>Jelly Roll,<\/strong>&nbsp;who is the only other Top 20 artist to more recently impact country radio. \u201cyour place\u201d recently reached No.1 on SiriusXM&#8217;s The Highway Hot 30 Countdown, and&nbsp;Cooke is currently an iHeartCountry On The Verge artist, continuing a legacy set before her by contemporary trailblazers&nbsp;<strong>Lainey Wilson<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Megan Moroney<\/strong>&nbsp;who are recent alumni of the prestigious program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Billboard&nbsp;<\/em>recognized early the \u201creal potential (of &#8216;your place&#8217;) becoming her first radio hit.\u201d Transcending geographical borders, the single is already showing signs of international success, debuting Top 5 on the U.K.&#8217;s Country Airplay chart and Top 3 most-added on Mediabase Canada this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooke&#8217;s strides at country radio mirror her momentum across streamers, where she&#8217;s Top 10 for female currents and her engaged fan base continues to grow week over week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bringing her critically acclaimed 2023 debut album&nbsp;<em>shot in the dark<\/em>&nbsp;to venues across 33 U.S. dates as a headliner through the top of 2024, Cooke is currently supporting&nbsp;<strong>Jordan Davis&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;Damn Good Time Tour across its worldwide trek, demonstrating why&nbsp;<em>Holler<\/em>&nbsp;calls her&nbsp;\u201ca real force to be reckoned with.\u201d See Ashley Cooke live&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukkuxm.fd57.fdske.com\/ec\/gAAAAABl8yfyi8OGdjUGK9oKkpnY-cLJ6yst1puafoCaFdRszoCLKblZK7OX7-DFUR7dsLcQJJK0oROKKAymEDH8UotMQOIrqi3pwKlR3-GRYX5c51E5zyA_Ddo9ywUV4Swc_ElGULjd3hmBCT_sS-1r18XCB5Dz_XH0UVJnchulvPF7fw9jE2xjftSLrFvOKfVzP-cpwmDeMQLZCbtF_T3SAvWbgCIWafk4DWXWzaI-z-5O2Kw8laMjAZbK7UuhBVoPtkqxsuwv41ktuwVt8tqiZ4vgn6-vKaeb_XUo2o7Ql1i-AVLn1c3nKuY_G3vq20GIh-lCWYlxrA_6mLNLnKznjnqG0C6CCcBgVqMiDcD1sm9VNCCqKSuoE1FyRQT0Du7rXCNJlhck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>here<\/u>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riding a wave started by the July release of&nbsp;<em>shot in the dark,&nbsp;<\/em>Cooke catapulted into 2024 on high as a member of&nbsp;<em>CMT&#8217;<\/em>s 2023 Next Women of Country class and the 2023 Opry NextStage class, as well as being crowned&nbsp;<em>MusicRow&#8217;<\/em>s 2023<em>&nbsp;Discovery Artist of the Year<\/em>. Just five years after&nbsp;entering and winning Belmont&#8217;s 2019 Country Showcase as the only non-music major, Ashley Cooke&#8217;s unprecedented story is only beginning to unfold.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"816\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-816x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 816px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 816\/1024;width:439px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-816x1024.png 816w, https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-239x300.png 239w, https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-768x964.png 768w, https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.png 958w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Ashley Cooke<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Earns CMT Music Awards Nomination for\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>Breakthrough Female Video of the Year (&#8220;your place&#8221;)\u00a0<\/strong>|\u00a0<\/em>Download\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ukkuxm.fd57.fdske.com\/ec\/gAAAAABl8yfyg4HIjwQsw-CGl_v6DBHWfv5IXpbhiZFLUUxp_4i3VC7VqpmQ1qFo1DsLogUWYNWlqL4X81bNM8hPorUfM0XBrsXp_bS7t3ogSysY_9NgSUi-QBr1a5N827mIxN9jvfTbUMt_A9nkSTh9DgYXOEqpPhmf4k9i0bFaEqsvyolUg02giLX9x_w-CDesgTm12Wt_Jg3mU0uOqwPm5KMqTAp6wFjpENtxXT5c3VeCRHvLFLxo5UrMWQgR9E0DSi5NEhmpgwgrdvIeth8C_yo9Sa9zShXBZ8YOfrrM7EMRaQ4ZpJMTwkjBwo3FCRKVlhoufW2bm9On-EmM3ffDxNnhthw4OCGUq6u653ZTgP-b1IQ7pTodSmLwa18YlgsxFILgN6yVlvOMitujZViciBMN5vtnDlmOy_HyBxWG37BGFf3zcTo=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SKYROCKETING YEAR CONTINUES WITH FIRST-EVER CMT MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATION FOR&nbsp;BREAKTHROUGH FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR (\u201cyour place\u201d) \u201cyour place\u201d SOARS INSIDE COUNTRY RADIO&#8217;S TOP 20 COOKE HAS THE SECOND-FASTEST RISING SINGLE INSIDE COUNTRY RADIO&#8217;S TOP 20 ONLY BEHIND GENRE JUGGERNAUT&nbsp;JELLY &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/ashley-cooke-gains-momentum-as-2024-heats-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleycooke.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}