Bryan scores a double
Newcomer Thomas Rhett is second on the song chart with It Goes Like This, one ahead of Jason Aldean's Night Train. Tyler Farr's Redneck Crazy single was second with Bill Currington's Hey Girl in fifth. Tim McGraw broke into the top 10, at 10, with Southern Girl.
Joe Nichols' first single off his upcoming disc, Sunny And 75, climbed three to 14. "Red," the title track of Taylor Swift's latest, was up six to 15. Eli Young Band stood at 19 with Drunk Last Night, up five. Cassadee Pope was up four to 21 with Wasting All These Tears. Parmalee is in the top 25 - at 24 - with Carolina.
On the albums chart, last week's number one, "Off the Beaten Path" from Justin Moore, slipped to second. Alan Jackson debuted in third with "The Bluegrass Album." Keith Urban's "Fuse" and Chris Young's "A.M." were fourth and fifth.
"Uncaged" from Zac Brown Band stood at 19, up five. Jackson also was at 29 up three, with "Precious Memories: Volume II." "Nashville: The Music Of Nashville: Season 1: Volume 2" was up seven to 33. "Nashville" was helped by the start of the television show's second season.
Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott jumped from 61 to 36 with "Memories And Moments." "Nashville: Season 1: Volume 1" also had a big shift, going from 52 to 37.
Jackson topped the bluegrass chart. O'Brien and Scott were second. "Living Years" from The Isaacs was third, one ahead of Steve Martin & Edie Brickell's "Love Has Come For You." Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby were fifth with "Cluck Ol' Hen: Live."
On the overall top 200, Bryan was sixth, Moore 10th, Jackson 11th, Urban 14th and Young 18th.
More news for Luke Bryan
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- 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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