Nicolle Galyon’s Songwriting Journey: A Decade of 10 No. 1 Hits
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- 27 Feb 2023
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Nicolle Galyon’s songs have become a mainstay on the country charts throughout the past decade. Since she moved to Nashville more than 20 years ago, the songwriter, artist, and label executive has seen success with Miranda Lambert (“Automatic”), Keith Urban (“We Were Us”), Kenny Chesney (“All the Pretty Girls”) Dan + Shay (“Tequila”), and Lee Brice (“Boy”), among others.
Galyon, the sole female honored with a 2023 CMA Triple Play Award for writing three No. 1 songs within a 12-month period, recently notched her 10th No. 1 hit with Morgan Wallen’s “Thought You Should Know.” She’ll be recognized for her Wallen cut, which she wrote with Wallen and Lambert, as well as Dierks Bentley’s chart-topper “Gone” and Kelsea Ballerini’s “half of my hometown,” which features Chesney. While the in-demand songwriter receives her second Triple Play Award in four years on Wednesday (March 1), she admits that it took some time in Nashville before she saw herself as a songwriter.
“I had to write 100 songs before I ever started co-writing,” she tells American Songwriter. “I don’t think that I would have ever called myself a songwriter until I had written songs [for] three to four years.”
Galyon relocated from Sterling, Kansas, to Music City to attend Belmont University, where she studied music business. She attended her first guitar pull around age 18 and says it was attending that show that she realized she was a songwriter. Galyon grew up writing poetry and short stories as well as for the local newspaper and the school yearbook. Trained in classical piano, she began to write songs in private following her first guitar pull. Read More…
