Bryan breaks for the top
The disc, containing six originals written by Bryan, sold 74,296 copies. Bryan landed at number two on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart with the sixth installment of his Spring Break series. The releases have sold more thant 825,000 copies. Last year's "Spring Break...Here To Party" was the first and only retail release of the series.
Sara Evans grabbed her fourth top 10 album as "Slow Me Down" was ninth with 27,000 units sold. This marked her fourth straight top 10 disc, dating to 2005's "Real Fine Place."
Eric Church's former chart topper, "The Outsiders," closed out the top 10 with 23,000 units, down 23 percent.
Last week, Bryan performed two spring break concerts in Panama City, Fla. at Spinnaker Beach Club to a crowd of more than 230,000 fans.
The current single. "Play It Again" from his Platinum selling "Crash My Party" album, was just released to country radio. The CD sold one million copies in six weeks and was the best-selling country album in 2013. The album contains three number one hits including "That's My Kind of Night," "Crash My Party" and "Drink A Beer."
More news for Luke Bryan
- 04/07/25: Bryan announces fall Farm Tour
- 03/25/25: Bryan announces Farm Tour line-up
- 01/27/25: Bryan plans summer tour
- 01/13/25: Bryan heads west with Farm Tour
- 11/11/24: For Bryan, "Country Song Came On"
- 09/30/24: Bryan, Manning, Wilson host CMAs
- 08/08/24: Bryan has the "Mind of a Country Boy"
- 07/16/24: Bryan adds final Farm Tour date
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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