Jennette McCurdy Discography

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Jennette started her music career in 2009 with her debut single "So Close".

Your Tymes Record, LLC

 * So Close (10/3/2009), Co-written with Ty Stevens and Joy Williams
 * Homeless Heart (5/19/2009), Cover of Amanda Stott's version.

Capitol Records Nashville

 * Not That Far Away (6/1/2010), Co-written with Rachel Proctor and Blair Daly
 * Not That Far Away EP (Extended play) including the following songs: Not That Far Away, Stronger, Me With You and Put Your Arms Around Someone.
 * Generation Love (3/15/2011), Written by Tom Douglas, Heather Morgan & Ross Copperman

Albums
"The Story of My Life" (2011, 11 tracks) (to be released)

"Not That Far Away EP" (#3 US Country Heatseekers Chart, #32, US Hot Country Songs)

So Close
So Close is the debut single partly written by American singer and actress Jennette McCurdy[1], taken from her upcoming debut album. It was released on iTunes and Amazon.com on March 10, 2009.[2]

Content
The song is about a girl's crush on a boy who seems "so close" but is physically or metaphorically far away. It was written based on an experience of McCurdy's.[3] Country Music Television's Alison Bonaguro described it as "a refreshing country sound from the otherwise all-pop-music factory known as Nickelodeon".[4]

Release
The single reached 16th and 53rd on the iTunes Country and Pop Charts, respectively, within the first day of release, and was kept on these charts for at least a week. In terms of iTunes chart performance, this was her most successful single to date.[5]

Track listing

 * iTunes single
 * 1) "So Close" — 3:49

Homeless Heart (covered by McCurdy)
Homeless Heart is a song by Canadian singer Amanda Stott from her second album Chasing the Sky and featured in the album Women & Songs 9. Stott also released a music video of the song shot in Cuba. It is written by Andreas Carlsson, Desmond Child, and Harry Sommerdahl and was very popular. She described it as "a song that can be taken from the perspective of a relationship or a parent to a child or even a person's faith, where people can make the song their own and put themselves in it."

Bryan Rice version
Danish pop singer Bryan Rice released his version and a remix of Stott's version with Tom Belton in Auguest 2006. While Stott's version opened with "Lonesome Stranger" Rice's version started with "Lonesome beauty". He also released a music video (not a remix) of the song shot in New York City.[1] [2] It was a hit single for him.

Tobias Regner version
The winner of Germany's Deutschland Sucht den SuperStar (season 3) Tobias Regner made a pop/rock version of the song in his album, Sraight, which reached 99th position in the European Top 100 Albums for 6 weeks. Regner's version also opened with "Lonesome Beauty" and changed the line "You've got to find" to "You gotta find".

Jennette McCurdy version
Jennette McCurdy's version was released as the second single for her forthcoming album, following Stott's lyrics. Within the first week of release, it reached #43 on the iTunes Country charts and peaked at #24 on the UK iTunes Country music chart.

The song is for McCurdy's recently deceased friend Cody Waters, and 20% of proceeds will be donated to the Cody Waters Foundation.

Not That Far Away
Not That Far Away is the title of a song recorded by American country artist Jennette McCurdy. It was released to country radio on May 24, 2010 and as a music download on June 1, 2010. The song serves as her debut single and the lead-off single to her upcoming debut album with Capitol Nashville.

Content
"Not That Far Away" is an up-tempo song featuring prominent banjo and electric guitar with steel guitar fills. The song's female narrator describes the scenario of a young girl, who dreams of becoming a country artist, heading out of town to Nashville, Tennessee in pursuit of her dream. In leaving, she finds herself assuring her mother that she's "not that far away" from her hometown in California.

McCurdy said that, "This song really captures the last year of my life. I've been in Nashville writing for and recording my record and following my dream while really missing my family and friends back in Garden Grove, California." The single was chosen in a fan-voted poll that featured samples of six songs from her upcoming record; "Not That Far Away," with 30% of the total votes, was selected for release.

Performance
It reached #58 on the Billboard Country charts and was on the charts for two weeks.

Generation Love
Generation Love is the title of a song recorded by McCurdy. It was her 4th overall single, 2nd single for her upcoming album and was available for the first time on March 15th, 2011 as a digital download on iTunes and Amazon.The song was written by Tom Douglas, Heather Morgan & Ross Copperman.

Content
The song's female narrator laments on the modern generation, which is seen as selfish and caught up in mainly the technological world. It is contrasted with the early generations of the Great Depression, War veterans and the post-World War Two generation that performed feats such as landing on the moon. The main message is to convince the current generation to be a generation that is one of love--"Generation Love".

Performance
It debuted at #57 on ht Country Billboard Charts on the week starting May 02, 2011.

On the week starting May 09, it moved up to #50.

The song reached a peake at #44 on the Billboard Country charts on the week starting May 16, 2011.

In terms of Billboard chart performance, this was her most successful single to date.

It dipped to #45 on the week May 23, 2011.

The music video of the song, which was directed by Roman White premiered on CMT around April 29, 2011. It reached #2 on the iTunes Country charts. In the video, McCurdy is shown singing on a building rooftop with the ground littered with red hearts shapes. Through out the video, young people are shown holding posters or balloons with hearts and helping the older generation.