Drake Milligan has had a quick rise with moving to Nashville in 2018, signing a record deal with BBR Music Group, dropping an introductory EP in 2021 and finishing in second on Season 17 of America’s Got Talent, and now he is making his debut on country radio with “Sounds Like Something I’d Do.”
The track is a country love song with hints of Shania Twain and Elvis himself. While writing the song, Milligan said it was “one of the most fun I’ve had in a writing room.” Adding, “I wrote it with Terry McBride and Brett Beavers. Somebody said in conversation, ‘Man, sounds like something I’d do’. Of course, as songwriters do, I wrote that title on my phone, Brett produced those early Dierks Bentley records and ‘What Was I Thinkin’ was such a great, great song, I wanted to bring some of that energy into the record. We were like kids when we wrote that song, just singing over and over again!”
Milligan concluded in saying, “Going to country radio is really what I’ve been working towards over the last five years. I came from Texas to Nashville because I wanted to be played on the radio, To me, the most commercial radio artist ever is George Strait. I don’t think radio has to be one kind of sound. George was the best at bringing energy and fun songs to the radio. Radio obviously is the absolute game-changer for a country music artist. It’s going to be the opportunity for after AGT to keep this thing going and make a career.”
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