Dan Martell - January 04, 2025


You’re just one idea away…


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

177.9661

Word count

189

Sentence count

7


Summary

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The story behind Oliver Anthony's hit song Richmond, North of Richmond and how God gave him a song that went on to become the first artist not signed to a label to ever reach number one on the Billboard charts.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You know Oliver Anthony? Richmond, north of Richmond, the song.
00:00:02.620 He's a 35-year-old male living in the Bible Belt in the southern wherever.
00:00:06.580 And he's a drunk, and he drives an old car that barely runs, and he's working in a dead-end job.
00:00:12.080 And he's just fed up with himself.
00:00:14.880 And he decides, I'm going to quit drinking, and I'm going to give my life to God.
00:00:18.720 And he said, I decided to stop making it about myself and start making it about other people.
00:00:23.440 and god gave him a song called richmond north of richmond and somebody with an old samsung phone
00:00:33.460 recorded him playing it in the woods and posted it on tiktok it became the number one song in the
00:00:40.440 usa he was the first artist not signed to a label to ever reach number one billboard charts in the
00:00:48.360 history of the world you want to tell me that you're not one idea away from that magical future
00:00:55.200 you don't understand how this thing works but he's one of so many people like that
00:01:00.340 those examples are all around us they just look different