Local entertainer Sam Roark's single "The Sound Of A Woman Saying Goodbye" from her Joe Sun produced album, "Check Out Girl" is at No .27 this week on Nashville's New Music Weekly Main Country Chart and according to certain Nashville music industry insiders is expected to reach the coveted No. 1 spot.

Roark's song recently debuted in the chart's top 50 at No .49

New Music Weekly is a nationally distributed trade magazine for the radio and music industries that takes pride in providing the industry with the most accurate and current chart data each and every week. NMW dedicates sometimes entire sections of each weekly magazine towards the progression of Top40/Pop, Country, AC/Hot, and College music.

"The Sound Of A Woman Saying Goodbye"has been released for national and international radio and internet radio airplay.

Sam is very excited and thrilled and sends a special thanks to songwriters, Lori Clevenger, Ann M. Schneider and Robert D. Andrew, producer Joe Sun, engineers George Clinton and Jessie Poe, the fantastic musicians and backup singers along with all the radio stations and their DJ's who are playing her song."

Roark said she hopes the single continues to rise and that she is currently in discussion with her producer concerning the release of one or two more cuts from the "Check Out Girl" CD being released as singles for national and international airplay and also about making a new CD this summer.