After playing the Grand Ole Opry Wednesday night, Kelsea Ballerini was presented with a Gold-Certified Plaque for her Top 10 Country Airplay hit “Peter Pan.”
The third single from her critically-acclaimed 2015 debut The First Time, the heartfelt ballad “Peter Pan” follows feisty chart-toppers “Dibs” and “Love Me Like You Mean It” in becoming a Gold Certified Hit (“Love Me Like You Mean It” actually is platinum).My heart could explode. I love you guys, thanks for making my dreams come true. ? pic.twitter.com/HnKU6T50Tq
— Kelsea Ballerini (@KelseaBallerini) August 11, 2016
Kelsea is the first new female artist since Taylor Swift to achieve this feat with her first three singles and is the first female artist since Swift to score three consecutive Top 10 hits from her debut album.
Note: Photo courtesy of Chris Hollo, ©2016 Grand Ole Opry.
Courtney
congrats to her that's 3 Gold singles in a row from a debut that generally doesn't happen very often the last the last big name solo Country/Pop artist to have straight gold or platinum singles from their debut album is Carrie Underwood and most of her released singles have gone at least gold if not multi platinum Though Peter Pan's Gold doesn't show up in The R.I.A.A.'s searchable database yet Carrie also has the highest certified country debut album by a female artist at 7 x platinum
Matt Bjorke
Taylor Swift and Carrie did it. Cole Swindell has done it. FGL, etc. It's remarkable and if she hits #1 on airplay charts, she'll have done something that Taylor and Carrie haven't done: Hit #1 with first three singles on the chart, last achieved by Wynonna Judd in 1992.