Taking 48 weeks to get to the top of Billboard and Mediabase’s country charts might have set a record for David Nail’s first #1, but it also embodied the truth of the title track to his critically-lauded The Sound of a Million Dreams. With that in mind – and the fact the song captures the truth of anyone who’s ever listened to the radio at a critical moment in their life – “The Sound of A Million Dreams” has been selected as the follow-up single to the Kennett, Missourian’s chart-topper. As USA Today proclaimed, “Listen… and let your dreams run wild.”

“That song is just so powerful to me,” Nail says. “There are so many songs in my life. The moment I hear the first couple notes of the introduction, I’m right back there… feeling the night or the sun, my pulse, seeing whomever I was with… and obviously whatever I was feeling, too.”

“Songs hold life in them. You never forget the little things as long as you can hear that song – and the more I meet people at the shows, the more I find out just about everybody else is exactly the same way. It’s one of those things we all have in common.”

The song, which celebrates the thrill of coming of age and staking one’s claim frozen in the music that was playing on the radio, also represents the way music has realized the band director’s son’s wildest fantasies over the past year. Nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance and an Academy of Country Music Single of the Year Award for “Red Light,” the former jock also got to sing “God Bless America” at the 7th game of the World Series, where his beloved Cardinals took home the title.

Written by Scooter Carusoe (“Anything But Mine,” “Better As A Memory”) and Phil Vassar (“I’m Alright,” “Just Another Day In Paradise”), “The Sound of A Million Dreams” is about a girl, but it’s also about being a young buck ready to stake his claim, getting out in the world and coming home with his tail between his legs. Just as importantly, it’s a celebration of the lesson that unconditional love abides, even when life implodes – and that adds potency beyond the obvious.

“I won’t say I’ve lived every bit of that song,” says the man who co-wrote “Let It Rain” with Jonathan Singleton, “but I will say that there aren’t very many songs that suit me as much as this one does. It’s everything I believe – and it’s also everything most people go through on their way to figuring out how to live in this world.”

“And especially, it’s about how the songs can hold you together in the doubt… those places where it’s all blowing up around you. To be able to go back and remember, vividly, how the good times feel, well, for me, that was often enough to carry on.”

Nail, called “Stunning” by Billboard and hailed by The Washington Post as “country’s most limber and soulful (singer) this side of Ronnie Dunn,” will carry on his musically dynamic live shows in the months to come. Fresh off a sold-out-and-beyond run in the Midwest, he heads to Florida this weekend, then Texas, Arizona and onto California.

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