DAKOTA EAST SCORES FIRST NATIONAL TOP 10 SINGLE WITH 'MOVING ON'
- Tim Holland
- May 9, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: May 28
Dakota East has scored her first Top 10 single on the Countrytown Australian Country Radio Airplay Chart with 'Moving On' hitting the #8 spot on this week's chart!
‘Moving On’ depicts the transformative journey of revival and empowerment that comes after a turbulent break up.
Drawing on sounds inspired by The Preatures, Morgan Wallen and Mackenzie Porter, ‘Moving On’ portrays the story of a young woman leaving behind the only life she had ever known and shedding unwanted memories, by road tripping across the country and embracing new experiences.
“I wanted to capture a feeling that most of us know, when you have given so much to something but it all falls apart and you feel like it's an impossible task to start over,” says Dakota East.
“Yet as time unfolds there is always the promise of moving on and better days".
While being a fully-fledged Aussie based full time in Melbourne, Dakota East actually grew up in a log cabin on a small island in the middle of a lake in Ontario Canada.
Her childhood was very much influenced by music from the likes of folk singers Neil Young, James Taylorand John Denver along with B B King and Bonnie Raitt.
“The music married with the scenery so well and was the perfect soundtrack to my childhood,” says Dakota East.
Her debut independent commercial release ‘Runaway’ in 2021 scored over 300,000 streams, while also being a Top 20 single on the Countrytown official national country radio chart.
She followed that with ‘Feel It’ in early 2023, which also made it into the Top 30 at Australian country radio.
Dakota has also been invited to open for Shannon Noll as part of his 20th Anniversary Tour, for the Melbourne show on May 29.
