Rucker, J.
We disagree with our colleagues for several reasons. First, it is certainly true that a trial court may abuse its discretion where the sentencing statement omits reasons that are clearly supported by the record and advanced for consideration. See Anglemyer, 868 N.E.2d at 490-91. But in this case the trial court’s sentencing statement did not omit consideration of Kimbrough’s lack of a criminal history. Instead the statement specifically noted as a mitigating factor that Kimbrough “has no history of delinquency or criminal activity.” App. at 94. Thus, even assuming without deciding that in this post-Anglemyer era appellate courts have a “duty . . . to correct sentencing errors, sua sponte,” Comer, 839 N.E. 2d at 726, we fail to see how the sentence here was erroneous on grounds that the trial court omitted a reason supported by the record. Second, by describing Kimbrough’s lack of criminal history as a “substantial mitigating factor,” and remanding this case with instructions to impose a reduced sentence, the Court of Appeals majority implicitly suggested the trial court should have given greater weight to this factor. But Anglemyer makes clear that when imposing a sentence a trial court “no longer has any obligation to ‘weigh’ aggravating and mitigating factors against each other” and thus “a trial court can not now be said to have abused its discretion in failing to ‘properly weigh’ such factors.” Anglemyer, 868 N.E.2d at 491. Here, the trial court did in fact weigh aggravating and mitigating factors giving more weight to three aggravators than the sole mitigator. And the trial court cannot be said to have abused its discretion in so doing. See id. Thus on this ground the trial court also did not abuse its discretion in imposing Kimbrough’s sentence.
This brings us to the Court of Appeals’ declaration that it was “focusing on the appropriateness of the sentence.” Although not cited by the majority, this language implicates Indiana Appellate Rule (7)(B) which provides “[t]he Court may revise a sentence authorized by statute if, after due consideration of the trial court’s decision, the Court finds that the sentence is inappropriate in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender.” Even though a trial court may have acted within its lawful discretion in determining a sentence, Article 7, Sections 4 and 6 of the Indiana Constitution “authorize[ ] independent appellate review and revision of a sentence imposed by the trial court.” Buchanan, 767 N.E.2d at 972. This appellate authority is implemented through Rule (7)(B). First, we agree with Judge Mathias who in dissent noted “a request for sentence revision under Appellate Rule (7)(B) is not truly a claim of sentencing error. Rather, it is a request for [the] court to exercise its constitutional authority to revise a lawfully entered sentence.” Kimbrough, No. 45A04-1106-CR-328, slip op. at 14 n.3 (citation omitted). Further, and importantly, in his brief before the Court of Appeals Kimbrough did not seek sentencing revision, did not cite to or rely upon Appellate Rule (7)(B) and thus said nothing about the nature of the offenses or his character. As we have declared “a defendant must persuade the appellate court that his or her sentence has met this inappropriateness standard of review.” Childress v. State, 848 N.E.2d 1073, 1080 (Ind. 2006). Here Kimbrough made no attempt to do so. “When a defendant requests appellate review and revision of a criminal sentence pursuant to authority derived from Article 7, Sections 4 or 6 of the Indiana Constitution . . . the reviewing court is presented with the issue of whether to affirm, reduce, or increase the sentence.” McCullough v. State, 900 N.E.2d 745, 750 (Ind. 2009) (emphasis added). Kimbrough made no such request and therefore there was no issue in this regard to be considered by a reviewing court.
In summary, because the trial court correctly entered its sentencing statement in compliance with the dictates of Anglemyer and because the “appropriateness” of a sentence has no bearing on whether a sentence is erroneous, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in imposing Kimbrough’s sentence. Further, Kimbrough did not seek review and revision of his sentence under Indiana Appellate Rule (7)(B).
Dickson, C.J., and David, Massa and Rush, JJ., concur.