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LUKE BRYAN CELEBRATES SEVEN CHART TOPPERS.

LUKE BRYAN CELEBRATES SEVEN CHART TOPPERS.
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Luke Bryan

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Luke Bryan, along with his co-writers, celebrated seven consecutive No. 1 songs, including “Roller Coaster,” “Play It Again,” “I See You,” “Kick the Dust Up,” “Strip It Down,” “Home Alone Tonight” and “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day,” at the Country Music Hall of Fame on Monday (October 24th). Two-Time CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year Luke and the writers spoke to the press before taking the stage to perform all of the feted songs in front of family, friends, fans and members of the music industry.

“It’s an amazing situation that I’ve been blessed to be in,” says Luke. “I truly do appreciate what’s going on and understand the rarity of having success to where your number-ones are kind of outrunning the abilities to have the parties. [We] had an album listening party for Kill the Lights and we celebrated that and we had fun. Now we get to celebrate here going on I guess 16, 17 months later, we get to see the product of everybody’s hard work and the product of everybody’s dreams coming true and moving to Nashville and doing everything we dreamed we’d do when we get here – have success in the music business. I don’t think anybody in these chairs, they clock in every day and we’re all clocking in every day and we don’t take a second of it for granted. It’s the best job in the world.”

At the close of the performances, Mike Dungan, UMG Nashville’s Chairman & CEO, surprised Luke with two sales plaques- one commemorating the seven #1’s have sold over 7 million tracks and over 600 million total combined streams and the second is the official RIAA Platinum certification of Kill The Lights album including 3.5 million tracks sold and over 400 million streams.

Play It Again (Dallas Davidson, Ashley Gorley)
Roller Coaster (Michael Carter, Cole Swindell)
I See You (Luke Bryan, Ashley Gorley, Luke Laird)
Kick The Dust Up (Dallas Davidson, Chris DeStefano, Ashley Gorley)
Strip It Down (Luke Bryan, Ross Copperman, Jon Nite)
Home Alone Tonight (Tommy Cecil, Jaida Dreyer, Jody Stevens, Cole Taylor)
Huntin’, Fishin’, and Lovin’ Every Day (Luke Bryan, Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, Ben Hayslip)

Luke is currently nominated for two CMA Awards as Entertainer of the Year and Vocal Collaboration with Karen Fairchild for “Home Alone Tonight,” one of the above #1 hits, and also for two American Music Awards as Favorite Male Artist-Country and Favorite Album-Country for Kill The Lights.

Luke is poised to enter the top of the charts – again – with his latest hit, “Move,” which is from his Kill the Lights album.
Photo credit: Alan Poizner
Cindy Mabe/ President, UMG Nashville, Luke, Mike Dungan/UMG Nashville’s Chairman & CEO, Kerri Edwards/ KP Entertainment

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