NEW MUSIC: JANA KRAMER | THE STORY

Country music singer and actress Jana Kramer has released a new track titled "The Story," which leads the way on the song sales chart. Kramer’s song is the only new release in the Top 3, with the “Encanto” sensation “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” (#2) and Elton John & Dua Lipa’s “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)” (#3) occupying the following two places. Kramer endured a very public divorce from her ex-husband Mike Caussin in 2021. Besides her personal emotional turmoil, she was deeply concerned about talking to their young children about the dissolution of their family. She wrote them a song about it. The fragile ballad includes the lyrics: It all fell apart in a moment / Lord I wish it wasn’t true| Because you deserve the perfect family / The fairytales you know so well / Instead of sitting here listening to the story I wish I didn’t have to tell. “I remember thinking, how am I going to tell my kids that everything they know was about to get flipped upside down?” Kramer wrote on social media. “That their family would now look different. How do I even have that conversation? A few weeks post-divorce, I decided to write them a song about the story, and now I’m releasing it because I know I’m not the only one with “the story.” I was terrified almost a year ago, but now we are a perfect family. It’s us. And to me, that’s our perfect family. It may not look how I thought it would, and it might hurt some days, but it’s our story, and it’s us 3. Forever. Our story.”