Bryan, Keith top charts
Luke Bryan was third with "tailgates & tanlines." The Band Perry stayed fourth with its self-titled debut, while Jason Aldean kept the fifth spot with "My Kinda Party."
Taylor Swift jumped five to seventh with "Speak Now." Martina McBride debuted at 11 with "Hits And More," a greatest hits package with 3 new songs. "Icon: George Strait" was up 5 to 14. Laura Alaina climbed 6 to 17 with "Wildflower." George Strait was at 19, up 3, with "Here for a Good Time." "Life At Best" from Eli Young Band stood at 20th, up 4.
Rascal Flatts was 31st with "Nothing Like This," up 4. Texas artist Roger Creager debuted at 39 with "Surrender."
Chris Young was up one to second on the songs chart with You. All Your Life from The Band Perry was up two to fourth. Zac Brown Band was fifth with Keep Me In Mind. Dierks Bentley reached the top 10 with Home up 1 to 10.
Taylor Swift jumped 4 places to 13 with Ours. Miranda Lambert also was up 4, to 27, with Over You.
On the bluegrass album chart, the first four discs remained the same. Dailey & Vincent stayed first with "The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent." "The Goat Rodeo Sessions" from Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile was second. Alison Krauss & Union Station was third with "Paper Airline." Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers were fourth with "Rare Bird Alert." The Issacs were up one to fifth with "Why Can't We."
On the overall top 200 album chart, Keith was 8th, up 14, Lady A 17th, Bryan, 18th, The Band Perry 22nd and Aldean 24th.
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."
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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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