My Church
"My Church" is the debut single by American country music singer Maren Morris. It was released in January 2016 as the lead single from her first studio album, Hero (2016). Morris co-wrote and co-produced the song with busbee. The song won the award for Best Country Solo Performance and was nominated for Best Country Song at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.[2]
"My Church"
Content[edit]
The church in the song is used figuratively to describe the sanctuary that the narrator feels is her car when she plays music on the Highway FM radio while driving.[3][4] It refers to listening to country icons like Johnny Cash and Hank Williams and is about "the simple joy that comes with turning up the volume, rolling down the windows and singing along to the radio at 65 miles an hour." She compares the experience to a church revival, saying, "Yeah, I guess that's my church." She co-wrote and co-produced the single with busbee.[4]
The song is composed in the key of A major in a 4/4 time signature with a "shuffle" tempo of approximately 76 beats per minute. It follows the chord pattern A-D-A-E-A twice. Morris' vocals range from E3 to C♯5.[5]
Chart performance[edit]
According to Columbia Nashville, the song set a record as the song played by the greatest number of radio stations for a debut single in its impact week, 107, beating the previous record of 99.[14] It entered the Country Airplay chart at number 59.[15] It first entered the Hot Country Songs chart at number 38 for the week of January 30, 2016,[16] selling 6,000 copies that week.[17] It entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart two weeks later[18] and reached number one on the Country Digital Songs chart in another four weeks.[19] In the US, the song had sold over 974,000 digital copies by July 2017.[20]