Page Text: ABOUT MELANIE DYER
Australian artist/songwriter Melanie Dyer burst onto the country-pop scene in 2015 with startling vibrancy. Her EP ‘Lifetime’ was both a stunning artistic blueprint and a tearaway chart success. The title track and video spent several weeks in the CMC Top 50 with singles ‘Busy Doing Nothing’ and ‘My Stupid Mouth’ cracking the Australian Country Music Airplay Chart Top 10. Above all, the EP signalled the arrival of a phenomenal new voice and songwriter in Australian music – both in the world of country and on the local pop landscape.
In 2017 Melanie released her debut album ‘Fresh’ with the title track (co-written in Nashville with Morgan Evans) an established #1 hit on The Australian Official Country Hot 50 chart for 5 consecutive weeks and the accompanying video #1 on CMC Australia. Follow up single ‘Save My Cents’, a song Melanie penned alone also shot to the top of both radio and CMC charts and was a Top 10 finalist in the International Song writing Competition in 2018. That ‘Fresh’ should arrive glistening with the kind of polish that is usually reserved for the work of a veteran recording artist is no accident. It was the result of years of dedication and hard work.
More recently Melanie enjoyed breakout success with her single ‘Memphis T-Shirt’. Released in Nov 2019, the song was added to playlists on HIT & Nova Networks and over 100 Regional stations around Australia, enjoying 6 weeks at #1 on The Music Network’s Country Hot 50 Chart and #1 on CMC. The song went on to receive an APRA nomination for ‘The Most Performed Country Work’ in 2021. ‘Memphis T-Shirt’ was written with Karen Kosowski and Emma-Lee during one of Mel’s song writing trips to Nashville.
In late 2020 Melanie released the single ‘20s’ a co-write with writer producer Zachary Kale (Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban, Gabby Barrett), Reid Isbell and Konstantin Kersting (Tones and I, Mallrat) who also produced the song.
Melanie is currently in the Top 10 on the Australian Country Hot 50 radio charts with her latest single ‘Run Out Of Road’. The song is her first release under her new partnership with ABC Music.
An authentic artist with equal love for Country and Pop genres, Dyer wraps conversational stories in undeniably pop hooks and attracts a fan-base that borders the two worlds.
Melanie’s next single ‘Cheap Moscato’ will be released on Feb 4, 2022.