Bryan crashes at number one
This marks Bryan's second number one this year as "Spring Break...Here to Party" hit the top earlier this year.
Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience" (968,000) and Jay Z's "Magna Carta...Holy Grail" (slightly more than 528,000) were bigger debuts than "Crash" this year.
Last week's number one disc, The Civil Wars' self-titled album, fell to fifth with 39,000, down 66 percent. Florida Georgia Line's "Here's to the Good Times" was eighth with 31,000 units sold, up 19 percent.
Bryan's effort was the highest for a male country singer since Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" sold 766,000 in its first week in November 2004.
Since 2008, only two country artists sold more than a half-million copies of an album in a single week: Bryan and Taylor Swift. She reached the mark with each of her last three studio albums. "Red" started with 1.21 million last year, while 2010's "Speak Now" started with 1.05 million and 2008's "Fearless" launched with 592,000 units.
More news for Luke Bryan
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- 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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