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THE STAGE IS SET FOR THE 50TH ANNUAL CMA AWARDS.
Eric Church and Chris Stapleton, along with Maren Morris, top the list of final nominees for this year’s CMA Awards with five nominations each.
Chris is technically nominated for six awards, which includes single and he could win as both artist and producer. Keith Urban technically is up for five as both artist and producer of his album, Ripcord. Dierks Bentley and Carrie Underwood received four nominations, while Luke Bryan and Brothers Osborne each picked up two nominations.
Eric Church picked up five nominations for this year’s CMA Awards. The nods include Male Vocalist and Album of the Year for Mr. Misunderstood (produced by Jay Joyce and Arturo Buenahora, Jr., as well as Single of the Year for his recent No. 1 hit “Record Year,” Song of the Year for “Record Year,” which was written by Eric and Jeff Hyde and Music Video of the Year for “Record Year,” which was directed by Reid Long and John Peets. He now has a total of 22 career nominations since his first in 2011 for New Artist of the Year.
After Chris’ breakout year in 2015 when he had three nominations and went home with four trophies for Album (including producer), Male Vocalist, and New Artist of the Year, he is back in 2016 with five nominations, including his first for Entertainer of the Year. His list of nods this year also includes Male Vocalist; Single of the Year for “Nobody To Blame,” which was produced by Stapleton and Dave Cobb and mix engineered by Vance Powell; Music Video of the Year for “Fire Away,” which was directed by Tim Mattia; and Musical Event of the Year with life and stage partner Morgane Stapleton (her first nomination) for “You Are My Sunshine.” Stapleton only receives one nomination for Single of the Year, but can receive an additional trophy as producer.
Dierks, a 20-time nominee and two-time winner including the Horizon Award in 2005 (now New Artist of the Year) and Music Video of the Year in 2014 for “Drunk On A Plane,” will vie for Male Vocalist; Album for Black, which was produced by Ross Copperman and Buenahora; Music Video for “Somewhere On A Beach,” which was directed by Wes Edwards; and Musical Event of the Year for “Different for Girls” with Elle King (her first CMA Awards nomination).Keith, who has been a nominee every year since 2004, received four CMA Awards nominations in 2016 including Entertainer of the Year, which he won in 2005 when the show went to New York City. Urban’s other nominations include Male Vocalist; Album of the Year for Ripcord, which was produced by Urban, Dann Huff, Jeff Bhasker, Tyler Johnson, Greg Wills, Nile Rodgers, busbee, K-Kov, Nathan Chapman, and Jonny Price; and Musical Event of the Year for “The Fighter,” featuring Underwood. Keith only receives one nomination for Album of the Year, but can receive an additional trophy as producer. Keith has won the Musical Event category four times including “Start A Band” with Paisley (2009); “Highway Don’t Care” with McGraw and Taylor Swift (2013); “We Were Us” with Miranda Lambert (2014); and “Raise ‘Em Up,” featuring Church (2015).
Luke, who is the reigning Entertainer of the Year, is nominated again in 2016 (he received his first nomination in the category in 2013). He is also nominated for Musical Event of the Year for “Home Alone Tonight,” featuring Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town.
Brothers Osborne are nominated for Vocal Duo and New Artist of the Year.
Little Big Town and Lady Antebellum vie for Vocal Group of the Year.
Kacey Musgraves, who won New Artist of the Year in 2013 and Song of the Year in 2014, is also nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year.
Several of your favorite country artists – then, now and forever country – will take to the stage to perform at Wednesday night’s CMA Awards. Universal Music Group is representing with performances by George Strait, Alan Jackson, Luke Bryan, Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley, Little Big Town, Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, Vince Gill, Kacey Musgraves and Vince Gill.
The 50th Annual CMA Awards will be broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Wednesday (November 2nd) at 8pm ET on ABC.
The Final Nominees for “The 50th Annual CMA Awards” (by ballot category order):
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Garth Brooks
Luke Bryan
Chris Stapleton
Carrie Underwood
Keith UrbanSINGLE OF THE YEAR
(Award goes to Artist, Producer(s), and Mix Engineer(s))
“Die a Happy Man”
Thomas Rhett
Produced by Dann Huff and Jesse Frasure
Mix Engineered by Justin Niebank
The Valory Music Co.“Humble and Kind”
Tim McGraw
Produced by Byron Gallimore and Tim McGraw
Mix Engineered by Byron Gallimore
Big Machine Records“My Church”
Maren Morris
Produced by busbee and Maren Morris
Mix Engineered by Dave Clauss and busbee
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville“Nobody To Blame”
Chris Stapleton
Produced by Dave Cobb and Chris Stapleton
Mix Engineered by Vance Powell
Mercury Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville“Record Year”
Eric Church
Produced by Jay Joyce
Mix Engineered by Jay Joyce and Jason Hall
EMI Records Nashville/Universal Music Group NashvilleALBUM OF THE YEAR
(Award goes to Artist and Producer(s))
Black
Dierks Bentley
Produced by Ross Copperman and Arturo Buenahora, Jr.
Capitol Records Nashville/Universal Music Group NashvilleHero
Maren Morris
Produced by busbee, Maren Morris, and Brad Hill
Columbia Nashville/Sony Music NashvilleMr. Misunderstood
Eric Church
Produced by Jay Joyce and Arturo Buenahora, Jr.
EMI Records Nashville/Universal Music Group NashvilleRipcord
Keith Urban
Produced by Jeff Bhasker, Tyler Johnson, Dann Huff, Greg Wells, Nile Rodgers, busbee, K-Kov, Nathan Chapman, Jonny Price, and Keith Urban
Hit Red Records/Capitol Records Nashville/Universal Music Group NashvilleStoryteller
Carrie Underwood
Produced by Jay Joyce, Mark Bright, and Zach Crowell
19 Recordings/Arista Nashville/Sony Music NashvilleSONG OF THE YEAR
(Award goes to Songwriter(s))
“Burning House”
Camaron “Cam” Ochs, Tyler Johnson, Jeff Bhasker“Die a Happy Man”
Sean Douglas, Thomas Rhett, and Joe Spargur“Humble and Kind”
Lori McKenna“My Church”
busbee and Maren Morris“Record Year”
Eric Church and Jeff HydeFEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Kelsea Ballerini
Miranda Lambert
Maren Morris
Kacey Musgraves
Carrie UnderwoodMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Dierks Bentley
Eric Church
Tim McGraw
Chris Stapleton
Keith UrbanVOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR
Lady Antebellum
Little Big Town
Old Dominion
Rascal Flatts
Zac Brown BandVOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR
Brothers Osborne
Dan + Shay
Florida Georgia Line
Joey + Rory
Maddie & TaeMUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR
(Award goes to each Artist)
“Different For Girls”
Dierks Bentley feat. Elle King
Capitol Records Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville“Home Alone Tonight”
Luke Bryan featuring Karen Fairchild
Capitol Records Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville“The Fighter”
Keith Urban (featuring Carrie Underwood)
Hit Red Records/Capitol Records Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville“Think of You”
Chris Young (duet with Cassadee Pope)
RCA Nashville/Sony Music Nashville“You Are My Sunshine”
Morgane Stapleton with Chris Stapleton
Low Country Sound/Elektra RecordsMUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
Jerry Douglas (Dobro/Lap Steel Guitar)
Paul Franklin (Steel Guitar)
Dann Huff (Guitar)
Brent Mason (Guitar)
Derek Wells (Guitar)MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
(Award goes to Artist and Director(s))
“Burning House”
Cam
Directed by Trey Fanjoy“Fire Away”
Chris Stapleton
Directed by Tim Mattia“Humble and Kind”
Tim McGraw
Directed by Wes Edwards“Record Year”
Eric Church
Directed by John Peets and Reid Long“Somewhere On A Beach”
Dierks Bentley
Directed by Wes EdwardsNEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Kelsea Ballerini
Brothers Osborne
Maren Morris
Old Dominion
Cole SwindellVideo /
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LUKE BRYAN WRAPPED HIS KILL THE LIGHTS TOUR WITH BACK-TO-BACK SOLD-OUT STADIUMS.
Two-Time CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan wrapped his “Kill The Lights Tour” with two back to back sold-out stadium dates, October 22nd in Dallas’s AT&T Stadium and October 29th at Detroit’s Ford Field. Luke has performed for a total of 1.6 million fans in concert in 2016, including more than 100,000 fans during his eighth annual “Farm Tour.” The tour is named after Luke’s Platinum-selling Kill The Lights album which just launched its fifth consecutive No. 1 single with “Move.” This is Luke’s 17th career No.1 single.
During the “Kill the Lights Tour,” Luke sold-out all six of his stadium shows this summer including a double play in Boston’s Gillette Stadium due to high ticket demand. The tour also performed back-to-back concerts in five additional cities.Known for his enthusiastic performances, Luke captured the attention not only of his fans but music critics alike during the tour’s 58-city run.“Bryan’s appeal is his unflappable energy.”- Houston Chronicle“It was also easy to see why Bryan has connected with such a large audience since his career began in 2007. Like so many other stars in genres like rap, pop and electronic dance music, Bryan’s take on country offers pure escapism. Having a good time was the theme.” – Baltimore Sun“The Georgia native had a masterful stage setup which catered perfectly to his playful, energetic personality.” Toledo Blade”It was the kind of night that underscored why Bryan is the Country Music Association’s reigning Entertainer of The Year. He’s a first rate showman who worked hard at connecting with his audience…He’s likeable, charismatic and comes across as quite genuine.”- San Jose Mercury News“Bryan is a solid performer, with great charisma and stage presence, and an ability to create intimacy with an audience of tens of thousands of people.” – Sacramento Bee“The country music superstar who has scored CMA’s coveted entertainer of the year award two years in a row, definitely proved worthy of that honor.”- Orange County RegisterOn Wednesday, Nov. 2, Luke will perform on the 50th Annual CMA Awards where he is the reigning 2014 & 2015 Entertainer of the Year and is nominated again for the night’s top prestige award as well as in the Vocal Collaboration category with Karen Fairchild for “Home Alone Tonight.” -
HALLOWEEN 2016
Halloween is Monday, and the holiday has some of your favorite country stars getting into costumes and recalling memories of Halloweens past.
Audio / Billy Currington reminisces about his childhood Halloween memories.
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“You know, when I was a kid, I loved the trick and the treat. I loved dressing up. I was always wanting to be Dracula. That was my favorite guy. But, of course, who doesn’t love going door-to-door and getting these buckets of candy? [laughs] So, love, love Halloween.”Audio / Brothers Osborne’s TJ and John Osborne talk about dressing up like zombies for Halloween.
DownloadBrothers Osborne (zombie costume) OC: (John) …was so fun! :29
TJ: “Literally, you can dress up like a zombie and drag your foot behind you all day and make weird noises, and everyone finds that completely acceptable.” [laughs] JOHN: “One year I dressed up as a ‘90s redneck zombie with a mullet wig and an Alan Jackson denim coat. I never once broke character. That’s part of the thing — you can actually not break character and get away with it. And everywhere I went, even when I ordered a drink, I ordered it like a zombie that was falling apart. [laughs] It was so fun!”Audio / Brothers Osborne (Halloween candy) OC: (John) …go stale. [laughs] :34
DownloadTJ: “I would say, Snickers, Baby Ruth, Kit Kat and Reese’s too.” JOHN: “I always hated those houses that would give you bad candy, though. You’re like, ‘C’mon. Step it up.’ Spend the extra dollar on a bag, you know?” TJ: “A house when we were growing up used to give out whole candy bars. It was the best. You were like, ‘That house – that’s the honey hole of candy.’” JOHN: “I love it, and I love like at the end, like three or four days after Halloween you would see what candy was left, and it was always like those crappy cheap candies, and they would just go stale.” [laughs]
Audio / Brothers Osborne’s John Osborne talks about carving pumpkins with their dad when they were growing up.
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“With our dad every year, we would go looking for pumpkins, and we would all get our own pumpkin to carve, and he would buy the biggest pumpkin that they had. It was huge. I mean, it was way too big for any one person, but he would love carving. He’s kind of an artsy guy. He was a great drawer and stuff, and he would carve the most terrifying, vicious looking, scary pumpkin you’d ever seen in your life, and it would be massive. It would be like on a 50-pound pumpkin or something.”Audio / Canaan Smith says his Halloweens of today have changed dramatically since he was a child.
DownloadCanaan Smith (Halloween) OC: …cornfields. :37
“I grew up in a Christian family. We went to a private Christian school for a while, so they didn’t allow us to celebrate Halloween like I do now. We did what was called a Hallelujah Party instead, and you still dress up and still get all the candy, but you go to the high school gym. You play games, you just do, like cornhole and the dunking booth and all kinds of stuff and win prizes, but it was nothing ever scary. I think they had like rules about what outfits you could and couldn’t wear. But now I just love freaking myself out and going to, I love going to haunted houses and haunted cornfields.”Audio / Darius Rucker loves Halloween, especially because it’s his kids’ favorite holiday.
DownloadDarius (Halloween) OC: …I’m into. :06
“Halloween’s big for me, because the kids love it. It’s my kids’ favorite holiday, so anything they’re into, I’m into.”Audio / David Nail talks about his favorite part of Halloween.
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“My favorite thing about Halloween was just the excitement about picking out your costume and talking to your friends and fighting over if you’re going to be this or if they stole the idea from you and if you can do the idea better.”
Audio / Dierks Bentley talks about the Halloweens of his childhood.
DownloadDierks Bentley (Halloween) OC: … …around home. [laughs] :23
“Oh, when I was a kid, I was all into fireworks. Growing up in Arizona, we couldn’t get ’em, so we’d have ’em shipped in illegally. I still remember the name of the guy we’d call. His name was Joe, and he’d bring in, ship ’em in a package with no writing on ’em. We were all about M-80s in the mailboxes and bottle rocket wars. To me, as a kid, Halloween was fireworks, was blowing up stuff around home. [laughs]”Audio / Easton Corbin says one of his favorite costumes as a kid was made by his grandmother.
DownloadEaston Corbin (Halloween) OC: …pretty warm. :26
“My grandma made a werewolf outfit for me, and I wore that one year. She got this fake hair and glued it to sweatpants and a sweatshirt. That was a hot outfit. I mean, it got pretty warm.”
Audio / Eric Church recalls his favorite Halloween costume.
DownloadEric Church (Halloween) OC: …Franklin Street. 1:18
“My favorite Halloween costume really came, I remember when I got a little older my first year of college, there’s this thing they do every year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Halloween on Franklin Street. We drove down from Boone, North Carolina. I had a bunch of friends that went to University of North Carolina, and we didn’t have costumes and didn’t realize until we were on the way that we had to have costumes. So, we stopped at a costume place in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s Halloween, so there’s a run on everything and couldn’t find anything. And we end up getting sent around, driving around town. We end up finding this hole in the wall place, but they had the full costume, Sesame Street outfits. The real deal. The real ones [with] feathers and fur. We were Elmo, Cookie Monster and I was Big Bird, and the Big Bird was the actual Big Bird. It’s about 7-foot-4, and yiou looked out of the body and then you had these straps that went on since the head was a lot higher. There’s a lot of beer involved in Franklin Street, so we get down there and as the night went on, my straps broke, so the head would pivot. And so, I would be walking one way and the head would be facing the other, and it just became this funny…I didn’t know the head was on backwards. I had no idea. I see out of the body, so I’m just kinda walking around and people were talking to my ass-end. [laughs] The whole time peiople’d come up and start talking and go, ‘Hey, turn around.’ And I’d turn around, and they’d go, ‘No turn around.’ It was a mess. That year, there was no other Big Bird on Franklin Street.”Audio / Jon Pardi talks about his favorite Halloween costumes as a child.
DownloadJon Pardi (Halloween) 1 OC: …the Superman. :15
“Man, I went through phases of costumes – the Superman costume, then it was a ninja, then I was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle one year. I remember rockin’ the Superman.”Audio / Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley reveals one costume he’s always wanted to wear on Halloween.
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CHARLES: “I want to be a banana. I think there’s something so funny and understated about a banana, especially when you’re 6’6” and like your little head’s popping through and you’re a banana.” DAVE: “Do they make ‘em your size?” CHARLES: “I’ve been known to sew a thing or two.” HILLARY: “That’s really random.” CHARLES: “I know. I’ve always wanted to dress up like something, just kind of funny like a banana or an apple.”Audio / Lady Antebellum’s Dave Haywood recalls one of his most embarrassing Halloween costumes.
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“I was a die (1/2 of a pair of dice) for Halloween. I had a big cardboard box that I had painted white and had the polka dots and stuff. And I remember I was walking up this hill to go to this hill and literally fell back down the entire hill [laughter], rolling in this giant cardboard box that I couldn’t do anything about, because I rolled down about 50-feet.”Audio / Luke Bryan says you can tell a lot about your neighbors from what kind of Halloween candy they hand out.
DownloadLuke Bryan (Halloween) OC: …your teeth. :21
“You can find out a lot about your neighbors by what kind of candy they put out. So, well, like full bars of Snickers bars, that’s what, and Reese’s cups, [but] the old chocolate popcorn ball of stuff, that’s no good either, like Dots – you get Dots one time of year and they pull your teeth.” -
LUKE BRYAN CELEBRATES SEVEN CHART TOPPERS.
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[[audio-player-1]]
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LUKE BRYAN, CHRIS STAPLETON AND SHANIA TWAIN WILL BE HONORED AT THE CMT ARTISTS OF THE YEAR SPECIAL THURSDAY.
The CMT Artists of the Year special airs Thursday (October 20th), and will include performances by Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, Kelsea Ballerini, Meghan Trainor, jill Scott and Zara Larsson. They’ll pay tribute to honorees Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett and Carrie Underwood. Karen is expected to sing with Luke, while Kelsea, Meghan and Jill will honor Shania Twain, who will receive the Artist of a Lifetime Award.
Taped live at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the CMT Artists of the Year special will air Thursday (October 20th) at 9pm ET/PT on CMT.
How would @ThomasRhett and each of our #CMTAOTY honorees describe #RamLifetime's @ShaniaTwain? Take a look… pic.twitter.com/PiXbfoplYO
— CMT (@CMT) October 17, 2016
Video / CMT Artists of the Year promo
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NEWS AND NOTES: George, Luke, Chris, Sam, Keith, Eric
George Strait is a grandfather once again. His son, Bubba, and daughter-in-law, Tamara, welcomed their second child Jillian Louise Strait on September 10th. She joins big brother Harvey, who was born February 2nd, 2012.
Luke Bryan is up for Favorite Male Country Artist and his album, Kill the Lights, is nominated for Favorite Country Album, along with Chris Stapleton’s Traveller, at this year’s American Music Awards. The AMA’s will air live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles November 20th at 8pm ET on ABC.
Sam Hunt’s “Break Up in a Small Town” and Keith Urban’s “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16,” along with Eric Church’s “Like a Wrecking Ball” and “Record Year” are among “The 10 Songs I Wish I’d Written” as voted on by NSAI members.
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RADIO FRIENDS: TRY OUT THE LUKE BRYAN APP FOR FREE. IT INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE CONTENT AND MORE DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO FANS.
Launched June 2015 in partnership with Disciple Media, Luke Bryan’s official App offers his fans unparalleled access to Luke’s life.
From exclusive live streams to updates from the road and his home to video premieres, exclusive merchandise and more, it’s the one-stop shop for everything Luke.
The App is available now on the Apple App Store and Google Play. http://smarturl.it/lbapppr
In June 2016, Luke celebrated the one-year anniversary of his app by sharing a video of all the best moments from year one. Check that out here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hnedv2haf8gfvpq/best%20of%20the%20app%20year%20one.mp4?dl=0
We’re excited to extend an offer to try out Luke’s app with an exclusive login for all radio stations! Simply download the app from your app store, then login with the below credentials:
Login: lbradio@dm.com
Password: LBrad2016!This account will be fully functional until November 9th. We encourage you to go in, have a look around, and see what Luke is doing to offer is fans the best exclusive content he has to offer.
NOTE: This login will be used by multiple stations, so we ask you please to not post on the fan wall or send friend requests to other users. Just simply enjoy the premium content coming straight from Luke to you!
Luke is currently sitting in the Top 10 on the charts with his latest single, “Move.” He just released the video for the song from his Kill the Lights album this week.Audio / Luke Bryan talks about his app fans can download to get exclusive content straight from him.
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“You know, it’s a fun support group of my fans to where I can run ideas by them and we do a lot of live streaming where the fans can tune in. As artists, I have so many people plan things in my life, but it’s nice to be able to fire up my cell phone and say, ‘Hey guys! This is me. I’m out on the boat fishing, and I just thought y’all might wanna see me catch a fish or something like that.’ You know, it’s fun to have that ability to have the fans kind of see what I’m doing and come into my world, and then obviously to launch new contests and ideas and get feedback from ’em in a pretty positive setting, you know? I’ve enjoyed the app. I mean, any time people run new stuff by me, I’m like, ‘Ahhh, more work. More work,’ but I enjoy every time I get to interact with everybody on the app.” -
LUKE BRYAN RELEASES THE VIDEO FOR HIS LATEST SINGLE, “MOVE.”
Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan released his new music video for his current single “Move,” the fifth single off his Platinum-selling, No. 1 debuting Kill The Lights album. The video premiered on Vevo and across their syndication partners. Watch it HERE. The performance driven video for “Move” is the first collaboration between director Shane Drake and Luke.“Move,” currently sitting at No. 9 on the country singles charts, is the follow up to four consecutive No. 1 singles from Luke’s latest album, Kill The Lights. The record includes two Platinum selling songs “Kick The Dust Up” and “Strip It Down,” plus the gold-certified, two-week No. 1 single “Home Alone Tonight” featuring Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town and most recently the gold-certified “Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Everyday.”Luke, a 2016 CMA Award Entertainer of the Year nominee, continues his Kill The Lights Tour this weekend in Phoenix, AZ and Los Angeles, CA in promotion of his No. 1 debuting Kill The Lights album, which became the best-selling country album of 2015 and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Year-End list.The four-time Entertainer of the Year performed for the first time and sold-out the iconic Wrigley Field in Chicago, home of the Chicago Cubs the third stadium and fourth sell-out (including two nights at Gillette Stadium) for Bryan this year, so far. The next stadium dates are October 22 at AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX and closes the tour on October 29 with a return to Ford Field in Detroit, MI. Special guests on the tour are Dustin Lynch and Little Big Town. For information on tickets go towww.ticketmaster.com. Citi is the official credit card of the Kill The Lights Tour. Live Nation is the national tour promoter.Kill The Lights Tour9-22 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion9-23 Los Angeles, CA Forum9-24 Irvine, CA Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre9-30 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre10-1 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre10-2 Las Vegas, NV Luxor Festival Grounds / Route 91*10-22 Arlington, TX AT&T Stadium ***10-29 Detroit, MI Ford FieldDates and Cities subject to change*festival date***Chris Stapleton joinsVideo / Luke Bryan Move video
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LUKE BRYAN WILL WRAP HIS ANNUAL FARM TOUR THIS WEEKEND.
Two-time reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan will wrap his “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016” this Saturday and a portion of the proceeds from the eight year run will bring his total of awarded college scholarships to 50. The “Luke Bryan Farm Tour Scholarship” is granted to a local college student from a farming family within the communities the tour has played.
The tour resumed in Batesville, Mississippi last night, the first concert back since his collar bone surgery over the weekend to repair a break from a mountain bike accident. The ever-positive Luke upheld ‘the show must go on’ attitude not missing a beat and continued with the remaining three shows scheduled last week. Fans unable to attend a farm tour show were able to tune-in for a livestream on Luke’s Facebook page last Friday from Greenback, Tennessee. Sounds Like Nashville was along for that show too. Watch their story here- https://youtu.be/0qX02ox5SYg .
“Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016”
October 13 Prairie Grove, Arkansas Ogden Ranch
October 14 Centralia, Missouri Stowers Farm
October 15 Effingham, Illinois Mid America Motorworks
Luke’s first-ever Farm Tour EP, Farm Tour…Here’s To The Farmer is available digitally now
Luke’s arena and stadium tour, “Kill The Lights Tour,” will come to a close this month with two remaining stadium shows, the AT&T Stadium in Dallas on October 22 and October 29 at Ford Field in Detroit.
The “Bayer Presents Luke Bryan Farm Tour 2016” is sponsored by Bayer, Chevy, Green Giant, Miller Lite, Cabela’s and Polaris.
About Luke Bryan
Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke has placed 16 singles at No. 1 and sold nearly eight million albums with 30 million digital tracks from his five studio albums. He has twice been named Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. His fifth studio album, Kill The Lights, debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 (his third to do so) and Top Country Albums charts and closed 2015 with the best-selling country album of the year and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Year-End list. In Luke’s stellar 2015 year, he performed for 1.5 million fans in concert, had three albums on the Top 15 Year-End Country Albums list- Kill the Lights (#1), Spring Break…Checkin’ Out (#10) and Crash My Party (#15), was the most streamed artist of 2015, placed six songs in the Year-End Top Country Streaming Tracks list, had his own exhibit at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (“Luke Bryan: Dirt Road Diary”), performed live during halftime at the Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving and wrapped up the year with a live Times Square performance on ABC’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” Luke recently co-hosted the ACM Awards for a fourth consecutive year and is performing in venues and stadiums across the U.S. on his “Kill The Lights Tour” through this fall.
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Luke also is helping families in need.
Share #Thankful4Ag or visit https://t.co/wBi38EHw0s and we'll donate a meal through @FeedingAmerica to a family in need. @BayerUS pic.twitter.com/1Fpz67wDO9
— Luke Bryan (@LukeBryanOnline) October 12, 2016
Audio / Luke Bryan says he loves giving scholarships to college students interested in farming and agriculture.
DownloadLuke Bryan (education on farming) OC: …roots. :34
“Anytime we can take a step to help facilitate dreams and agriculture and be smarter in how the food’s being made and being safer and stuff like that, the awareness of that can never be undermined….If I can educate some people on it and that can be my platform, I think I’ll always, the farmers out there and the people in that world will appreciate and they’ll know I’ve kinda stayed true to my roots.”
