Chely Wright Quotes

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

We sold 1.5 million copies of the 'Abracadabra' album and 26,000 copies of 'Italian X-Rays.'

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

'Dream Police' was in the can and ready to go when 'Budokan' started taking off worldwide, sales-wise.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.

Any song that does well, we're happy with. All we can do is keep writing great songs and hope that one catches on.

American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.

I want to build a fanbase. I want people to like my albums even more so than singles.

I want every song on it to be a hit.

My songs were already a hit track with over 100 million views/comments and multi-hundred thousand downloads on online websites before coming to Bollywood.

I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.

Now that I'm with RCA, they were able to get radio on board, and it's just really awesome to see their support and 'What Ifs' going to No. 1.

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.

There's people that have never heard our album. The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on the cover of magazines.

Raoul' sold a respectable 700,000 copies without a hit single. It didn't take off. If you don't sell 8 million albums or 4 million albums again, everybody deems it a big failure.

I did a double CD, 'The Element of Surprise,' in 1998. That album went gold.