Pro-life song "I Was Gonna Be" was released this Friday, June 21 and, in just three days, it is already a success. The song, performed by 18-year-old artist Rachel Holt, reached fifth among the most-listened-to country songs on iTunes:

On a national level, its figures are even more notable. The song produced by Chris Wallin's record label, Baste Records, is already the third most-listened-to country song in the country, according to iTopChart.

Even more important, however, is that only three days after its release, the song "I Was Gonna Be" managed to reach first place on the list of most-played music videos on the iTunes country charts. The singer highlighted this on social media:

A song that was almost never released

The song, composed by the director of Baste Records, Chris Wallin, emerged as a song for himself, a song that he had no intention of releasing, as he revealed exclusively to Breitbart: "I started writing this song for myself. I didn’t think anyone would have the courage to sing this."

But he was wrong. The composer soon met Rachel Holt, an 18-year-old girl from Indiana with traditional values who immediately offered to be the voice to sing the song: "I’m singing that song. I think a lot of the songs that girls my age listen to never talk about real life. And that’s what I want to do," Wallin remembers the artist saying to him.

After this, both began to work, and soon Wallin realized that the young woman was the ideal person for "I Was Gonna Be," as he recalled during his talk with Breitbart: