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“Naughty & Nice” EP Hit Top 5 iTunes on Tuesday!

Naughty & Nice EP by Elizabeth Chan hits Top 10 iTunes on its first day!

It has been quite a week in my life. I have been experiencing a real range of emotions that I never thought I would ever feel in my life.

On Tuesday, when my Christmas EP first debuted – it hit not Top 10 iTunes, which was my goal – it hit Top 5 iTunes. Reaching #4 before the afternoon.

When my friend Justin IM’d me – I thought he was joking. I thought to make me feel better he had photoshopped my song in a chart. I had done that earlier this year and I laughed. When he told me that he wasn’t joking, this wasn’t a joke. I started to cry. My entire body started shaking and I was inconsolable for the entire day.

Inconsolable.

Why? You ask?

Because the night before, during my record release party – I had told 100 people that my record was coming out and unless everyone had 10K friends – I would probably never hit top 10 iTunes. Despite not reaching my goal, the journey was enormous and I was humbled to have shared it with everyone.

In fact, the truth is. I went through this entire year believing that I would never hit my Failure Club goal. I embraced failure as it was my bosom buddy. “Hey Failure how you doing? Great?! See you soon!”

Going back to inconsolable. I was absolutely inconsolable because these were the emotions I felt.
1. Happy
2. Scared
3. Proud
4. Angry

Happy & proud don’t need much explanation I know. I was scared because I hit my goal the day my record came out. I had planned to push through the bitter end of Failure Club. What do I do next? I was angry because of the following reasons:

1. I had let people tell me for 10 years I was too old, too married, not talented enough, not this, not that to even attempt to try my dream.
2. I had let people tell me and believed that stepping off my career path would ruin my life.
3. I lived without music for so long because I believed all of the above.
4. The road to get to my record release had been fraught with so many moments that I could have easily given up. I fought so hard to get here and I was ashamed to think that I almost gave up so many times.

And so my friends. The moral of my story – which I never thought I would tell you today is that.

If you have a dream. DREAM. If you have a passion for something that is so loud in your head you can’t hear anything else. LISTEN. If you want to do something so bad that it makes your heart hurt if you don’t. DO. DO IT.

Cause you never know where you’ll end up. I certainly didn’t.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me. The holidays are coming and I’ve built the foundation to help bring out the songs to the world. I hope to celebrate with the world soon enough 🙂