New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Razor & Tie Media) Razor & Tie
Music Publishing singer/songwriter Greg Holden's song "Home" has been officially certified Double-Platinum by the RIAA having sold over 2,080,285 to date.
"Home" (as performed by American Idol Winner Phillip Phillip's) is currently on the following Billboard Charts: Hot Rock Songs Chart at #3, Hot 100 Chart at #19, Mainstream Top 40 Chart at #24, and Hot
Digital Songs Chartat #12.
Holden was also recently on the Hot Rock Songs Chart at #36 with a second song "
The Lost Boy" (as performed by Holden). "
The Lost Boy" was recently featured on the FX television series Sons of Anarchy and is from Holden's 2012 album I Don't Believe You.
"Home" was co-written by
Greg Holden and Pulse writer Drew Pearson and was picked by American Idol mentor / Interscope head Jimmy Iovine for
Phillip Phillips as his coronation song. The song has since been released as a commercial single and was used in the recent Olympics (becoming the unofficial theme song for NBC's coverage of the gold medal winning 2012 U.S. Olympics Women's Gymnastics team), multiple film and television advertisements and will be featured on an upcoming episode of the Fox hit series Glee.
Greg Holden will also have his new song "I Need An Energy" featured on the recently released soundtrack to the film Chasing Mavericks (Relativity Media). He will also perform at the 2013 Sundance ASCAP
Music Café at the Sundance Film Festival the week of January 18th.
Greg Holden is a Scottish-born, English-raised singer songwriter currently living in New York City. Since moving there three years ago, he has self-released three records, toured the United States supporting various artists (such as Ingrid Michaelson) and toured
Europe numerous times. Holden's 2011 album, I Don't Believe You, was produced by Tony Berg (Bob Dylan, Weezer, Aimee Mann) and was funded almost entirely by his fans after raising $30,000 in one month on Kickstarter.com. Most recently he celebrated a #1 Single in Holland "
The Lost Boy" and immediately followed that success with a sold out Dutch tour. The song also raised over $50,000 for Red Cross during
Radio 3FM's annual charity campaign, Serious Request. Greg has had his songs featured on major television shows such as ABC's
Private Practice, Make It Or Break It, One Tree Hill and The CW's Life Unexpected, as well as the Reese Witherspoon movie This Means War.
www.gregholdenonline.com
