Bryan gets the Gold
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 – Luke Bryan's current single, I Don't Want This Night To End, was certified Gold by the RIAA for more than 500,000 downloads.
The single has sold more than 128,000 downloads in the past week and was Bryan's highest digital track sales week of his career. It follows his Platinum hit, Country Girl (Shake It For Me), both from his current disc "tailgates & tanlines."
In 2011, Bryan was one of three artists (along with Lady Antebellum and Taylor Swift) to have multiple singles sell more than 100,000 tracks within a week's time - Country Girl (Shake It For Me) and I Don't Want This Night To End. His song Do I from his sophomore album, "Doin' My Thing," was also just certified Platinum by the RIAA.
Bryan is currently gearing up to hit the road with Jason Aldean on the 2012 leg of his My Kinda Party Tour, which kicks of Jan. 20 in Greenville, S.C.
More news for Luke Bryan
- 08/08/24: Bryan has the "Mind of a Country Boy"
- 07/16/24: Bryan adds final Farm Tour date
- 06/14/24: Bryan has the "Mind of a Country Boy"
- 05/03/24: Bryan hits the farms this fall
- 03/21/24: Tennessee enacts law protecting against AI, voice clones
- 02/02/24: Bryan has the "Mind of a Country Boy Tour"
- 01/17/24: Bryan, HARDY, Old Dominion headline Watershed
- 08/11/23: Bryan extolls being "Southern and Slow"
CD reviews for Luke Bryan
If there's one thing Luke Bryan knows how to do, it's to stay in his lane. And why not? It often leads to great chart position. The Deluxe edition of his seventh album "Born Here, Live Here, Die Here" was born out of the pandemic tour stoppage. It includes six new songs and increases the run time to 54 minutes. The original 10 tracks are mostly in the vein of the pop laced chart toppers "One Margarita" and "Knockin' Boots."
With writing ...
After taking in Luke Bryan's "Born Here Live Here Die Here," the listener will never guess this full length was released during a pandemic. Maybe that's a good thing. After all, we might need a diversion from the international health crisis now and then. The release opens with "Knockin' Boots," which is how modern cowboys describe sexual intercourse. A few songs later, Bryan gives us the drinking song (and single) "One Margarita." In between, "What ...
Luke Bryan aims to please often, and that rarely goes unpunished. The Georgia native has a strong voice, some songwriting skill and even legitimate farming cred. But Bryan still gets pegged as the face of corporate country - that pandering beast packaging artists for mass consumption. The label can be unfair, but not wholly undeserved - Bryan has a long track record, for instance, of records about chasing girls and Bud Lights. In truth, he married his college sweetheart and they share a quiet, ...
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