Parker McCollum is closing in at Top 15 on the country charts with his single, “Pretty Heart.” Having the song, which he co-wrote with Randy Montana, being played on the radio and climbing the charts seems to have validated his career choice, especially for his Mom and Dad.

“It’s honestly really truly just humbling, I think, to look on the charts and know that, I’ll send a screenshot to my parents, my mom and my dad, and I’ll be like, ‘Look how well it’s doing so quickly.’ And I think for them that’s really cool ’cause when I didn’t go to college trying to play country music, I think they lost a little bit of sleep some of those nights wondering where the hell I was and what I was doing,” says Parker. “And so I think it kinda puts their mind at ease a little bit to know that maybe I wasn’t crazy for trying to do this.”

The Conroe, Texas, native began to garner a lot of attention with the release of his debut independent album, The Limestone Kid, back in 2015, followed by Probably Wrong in 2017. He’s putting the finishing touches on his debut album for MCA Nashville.