Jimmie Allen celebrated his latest No. 1 hits – “Make Me Need To” and “Freedom Was A Freeway” –on Tuesday at SESAC with household, pals, and the songs’ writers Matthew J Rogers, Ash Bowers, Paul Sikes and Jennifer Denmark.
“I’m grateful for the quantity of success that I’ve been in a position to obtain up to now,” Allen stated earlier than the music trade occasion. “It’s positively a testomony to lots of people I’ve working with me, whether or not it’s my file label, my radio group, administration, PR, reserving company, even my band as a result of they’re those that get on stage with me each evening and assist me ship the present that makes folks wanna come again and see it or make folks wanna go take heed to music. The identical factor with my crew as a result of they’re those that make me and my band like what we’re doing. It feels nice. Hopefully, it’s motivation for folks to not be afraid to chase issues, even when it’s totally different.”
Allen stated he was motivated to put in writing the susceptible “Make Me Need To” to indicate what occurs when males fall first in a romantic relationship.
“I simply wished to put in writing a tune a few man that caught emotions first,” he stated. “It appeared like a enjoyable factor to do as a result of loads of songs are concerning the feminine catches emotions, however the man makes the transfer. I used to be like, ’No, let’s write a tune a few delicate dude that catches emotions after the primary kiss, and he’s able to threat all of it.’”
Nonetheless, after he was completed recording it and it was launched to nation radio, Allen tried to cease occupied with the monitor. He stated he tries not to concentrate to radio chart place as a result of it’s not at all times indicative of a tune’s success and diving into these numbers stresses him out.
“Regardless of the place the tune is on a chart, it’s not an actual rep illustration of what the tune is doing for folks as a result of I do know loads of songs that have been No. 1 however not hit songs,” he defined. “I do know loads of hit songs that by no means attain primary. For me, I simply sort of grade the tune primarily based off after I play reveals, how many individuals sing it again? What number of messages do I get?”
For each “Make Me Need To” and “Freedom Was A Freeway,” Allen stated the fan response was quick.
“There was a time when ’Freedom Was a Freeway,’ when it was on the radio, it was in a single place, however the gross sales on the tune outsold six songs in entrance of it,” he stated. “Although it was again right here on the radio, it confirmed that folks have been nonetheless listening to it by the radio, and so they have been going to buy it as a result of they preferred it. That’s actually how I decide stuff for me. It’s all concerning the folks. It’s all concerning the listening as a result of as an entertainer and as a musician, it’s my job to service them by my music.”
Allen’s followers can catch the singer this fall when he hits the highway with Carrie Underwood for her THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR.
Allen’s new album “Tulip Drive” shall be accessible on June 24.
