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Hey Mom I Made It

2024 song by Sacha

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ130741692 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Hey Mom I Made It" is a song recorded by Canadian country artist Sacha. She wrote the song with Jake Saghi and Shawn Chamblis, while Jimmy Robbins and Eric Arjes produced the track. Sacha and her co-writers received a nomination for "Songwriter(s) of the Year" at the 2024 Canadian Country Music Awards for writing the song. It was the lead single off her 2025 extended play, Where to Start.

Background

Sacha told CBC Music that the song's theme is about how she "overcame personal and professional setbacks to find joy in her life". In a press release, she added that she "wanted to make a song that inspires others to not give up on their dreams", and that she sought to "make a song that was both powerful and vulnerable". The song marked Sacha's debut major label release with Sony Music Canada after signing with them the year prior.

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Music video

The official music video for "Hey Mom I Made It" premiered on YouTube on July 10, 2024. The video was directed by Jeff Johnson, and also premiered the same day in the United States on CMT and on the Paramount Times Square Billboard in New York City.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hey Mom I Made It” as 2024 song by Sacha. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Made, song and Sacha.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Made, song and Sacha providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q130741692. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2024 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hey Mom I Made It” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.