Sarah Buxton's 'Window' Opens to History-Making Debut

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Sarah BuxtonSarah Buxton finally saw one of her dreams come true after five-plus years of waiting for her self-titled debut to hit stores this week. So it was even more rewarding for the singer when she learned that her single, 'Outside My Window,' has already sold 12,000 copies. That earns her the distinction of having the biggest opening-week digital single sales of a song from a debut CD by a female country artist in the history of Nielsen Soundscan, which tracks the numbers for digital downloads and CD sales.

Sarah celebrated the release with family and friends at a huge party in Nashville, and says that while she's excited to achieve such an accolade, she's learned after so much struggle to just take things one day at a time and enjoy the here and now, without looking too far ahead.

"I'm still in disbelief of the whole thing in general, so I haven't let the fact about my single sales really sink in yet," Sarah tells The Boot. "I've kind of learned to start being happy in the moment and live day to day, regardless of what success is, so I'm waiting, and maybe some day later I'll celebrate that. But I'm just kind of enjoying the moment right now and being here with everyone."

Sarah also reveals that she went out and bought her own CD at the store earlier in the day, and that her co-writer Luke Laird excitedly purchased two copies to support his friend.

Sarah’s Basic Bio:

Sarah Buxton was born July 3, 1980 in Lawrence, Kansas. She became actively involved in music as a child by learning piano, playing flute and joining a children's choir. She sang Patty Loveless' "Blame It On Your Heart" at a talent show as a junior in high school. [2] As she learned more about music, she became interested in songwriters and began writing poetry. After graduation, she met one of her musical idols, Stevie Nicks, who encouraged her to pursue music and move to Nashville, Tennessee.

Buxton enrolled at Nashville's Belmont University and started a Southern rock band called Stoik Oak, which toured the region for three years. After an 18-month engagement, she married Christopher Robin of the Christopher Robin Band when she was 22. However, they divorced shortly afterwards. She also felt discouraged about finding a place for her voice in the music business but found further encouragement from one of her friends, John Rich of Big & Rich. She asked her publisher to set up some co-writing sessions, and she became more confident in her approach to singing and songwriting. In the meantime, she sang background vocals for Kenny Rogers and John Corbett, in addition to singing duet vocals on Cowboy Troy's "If You Don't Wanna Love Me."

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