Sunny Sweeney's Five Song EP Available Today!

REPUBLIC NASHVILLE NEWS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

A PREVIEW OF SUNNY SWEENEY’S MUSIC RELEASED TODAY

Five-Song EP Available Today on iTunes

Performs Her Top #15 Single on nationally televised WGN Midday This Friday (1/21)

Nashville, Tennessee (January 18, 2011) – Sunny Sweeney’s Republic Nashville five-song EP is available digitally today and has already advanced to #10 on the iTunes Country Album Chart. This preview of her forthcoming full album, slated for release later this Spring, features the rising Top 15 hit, “From A Table Away,” which earned her the highest-charting debut single of a female country artist in the last four years. Sunny co-wrote all of the additional tracks –“Drink Myself Single”, “Amy”, “Staying’s Worse Than Leaving” and “Helluva Heart.”

This Friday, January 21, Sunny will perform some of her new tunes, on WGN Midday. WGN is broadcast in over 200 cities on WGN America. The #1-rated national midday newscast reaches over 75 million households, including New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Phoenix and many others. WGN Midday News begins at Noon ET/ 11 am CT daily. Sunny will perform in the nationally-broadcast Noon-time (CT) hour on Friday’s show (1 pm ET).

Sunny has opened for Country Music icons Loretta Lynn and Hank Williams Jr. and is an Opry favorite, playing more than 20 times since her debut. She recently recorded “Good Hearted Woman” with Jessi Colter for The Music Inside: A Collaboration Dedicated to Waylon Jennings, which streets on February 8.

ABOUT SUNNY SWEENEY: Hailing from East Texas, Sunny Sweeney is a singer/songwriter with musical instincts that are stone-cold country. She is a Top 10 Female Country Artist of 2010 with the highest charting debut single of a female country artist in the last four years. Sunny has also landed on multiple “Ones to Watch in 2011” lists.

ABOUT REPUBLIC NASHVILLE: Monte Lipman, President and CEO of Universal Republic and Scott Borchetta, President and CEO of Big MachineRecords, LLC announced the formation of its new label partnership – Republic Nashville – in May 2009. Former Capitol Records Promotion executive Jimmy Harnen serves as President with Borchetta serving as CEO. The imprint is headquartered on Music Row and utilizes the combined resources of Big Machine Records and Universal Republic Records. Big Machine and Universal Republic first joined forces in 2007 to propel country Superstar Taylor Swift to Top 40 radio and beyond, with Taylor becoming the best-selling all-genre artist in2008. Republic Nashville's artist roster includes Grammy-winning, multi-platinum superstar Martina McBride; Grammy-nominated, Platinum sensations The Band Perry; established act Eli Young Band; honky tonkin' singer/songwriter Sunny Sweeney and sister act SHEL.