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  • LUKE BRYAN CELEBRATES FINAL SPRING BREAK SHOWS WITH MORE THAN 400,000!

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    NASHVILLE, TN – (March 13, 2015)  – Luke Bryan wrapped his seventh and final year of two-day Spring Break concerts at the Spinnaker Beach Club in Panama City Beach, Florida yesterday.  Record breaking crowds swelled the beach area east and west of the club’s over flow and also bled to the Gulf water’s edge.  Local officials estimated over 200,000 fans gathered each day.
    The spring break albums and concerts began in 2009 as a way to get new music out to Luke’s fans between studio releases.  This year’s release, Spring Break…Checkin’ Out, is available in record stores, as well as digitally, now and contains five new songs all co-written by Luke plus all six songs from last year’s EP.  Luke’s collection of all six previous Spring Break releases combined have over 1.1 million sales to date.
     
    Today’s Jenna Bush was on hand to cover the final event with a story airing this coming Monday, March 16.  CMT’sHOT 20 show was also on tap with Katie Cook.   Fans can tune-in to watch the fun on CMT on March 21 & 22.
    Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke Bryan has placed 12 singles at No. 1 and sold nearly 7 million albums with 27 million digital tracks from his four studio albums, and has been named Entertainer of the Year for both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association.  In 2014, he achieved the best touring year of his career with 1.7 million fans attending his concerts.  
    In the past two-weeks Luke played his first-ever shows in Europe and on May 22 the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will open a summer exhibit “Luke Bryan: Dirt Road Diary.  On May 8, Luke will kick-off his new “Kick The Dust Up Tour.”   
    Luke is the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year and will co-host the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards with Blake Shelton for a third consecutive year on April 19, 2015.
     
    Visit www.LukeBryan.com or follow Luke on Twitter @LukeBryanOnline, Instagram and Facebook.

    Audio / Luke Bryan talks about the title track of his new Spring Break album, Checkin’ Out.

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    Luke Bryan (Checkin’ Out) OC: …the album. :47
    “‘Checkin’ Out’ is kind of a tricky name for the last Spring Break album, but the song ‘Checkin’ Out’ it’s kind of like checking into…the payoff line is checking in to like a good time but checking out of kind of reality in the real world, and it’s kind of involving – anyway, it’s a fun song. We took a different route on this one. We typically go big drums, big guitars, big instruments and we kind of did an acoustic version of this thing. Really, really broke down. We did put an electric guitar in it. But it was fun to let the band just kind of jam and pick and I think it turned out great and it obviously was a song that was the right song for the title of the album.”

  • LUKE BRYAN LEAVES BEHIND A LEGACY OF FUN DURING HIS SPRING BREAK SHOWS.

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    Luke Bryan played his final Spring Break show Thursday night (March 12th), and the legacy he will leave will be of fun.

    “When they’re having kids, they’re telling their kids how we used to go stand on the beach to see a free show that I put on, and that’s their memory,” says Luke. “That’s their time of their life where they’re having the most fun – they don’t know it’s the most fun period of their life – but it’s gonna be cool that forever if you were at any of those shows through any of those years, I think you can take away that day and that moment and remember being there forever, which is cool. That’s a great legacy. I think it doesn’t have to be really any more complex than, ‘Man, I was there, just being young and having fun. I met your mama there.’ [laughs]”

    Luke covered Bruno Mars‘ “Uptown Funk” during his Wednesday show in Panama City Beach, Florida.

    Luke just released his seventh and final Spring Break album, Checkin’ Out.

    Audio / Luke Bryan talks about the legacy his Spring Break shows will leave once he’s done.

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    Luke Bryan (Spring Break legacy) OC: …mama there. [laughs] :38
    “When they’re having kids, they’re telling their kids how we used to go stand on the beach to see a free show that I put on, and that’s their memory. That’s their time of their life where they’re having the most fun – they don’t know it’s the most fun period of their life – but it’s gonna be cool that forever if you were at any of those shows through any of those years, I think you can take away that day and that moment and remember being there forever, which is cool. That’s a great legacy. I think it doesn’t have to be really any more complex than, ‘Man, I was there, just being young and having fun. I met your mama there.’ [laughs]”

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  • LUKE BRYAN’S HALL OF FAME EXHIBIT WILL OPEN MAY 22ND.

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    NASHVILLE, Tenn., – March 11, 2015 – The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will explore the life and career of reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan with the summer exhibition Luke Bryan: Dirt Road Diary, which opens May 22nd and runs through November 8th. The exhibition will examine the singer-songwriter’s roots and rise to stardom. Since beginning his music career in the mid-2000s, Bryan has gone from co-writing songs for other artists to selling millions of records, filling concert arenas, and receiving prestigious music awards. With an emphasis on his phenomenal success in 2014, the exhibit will also look back at his life, from growing up the son of a peanut farmer in south Georgia to his poignant, leap-of-faith move to Nashville. Fans will see stage clothes, instruments, awards, photos, and other unique memorabilia from Bryan’s personal collection.
    “I remember bringing my parents to visit the museum and dreaming of something like this one day. Now to have an exhibit about my life that my family, friends, and fans can come and see is just so cool,” said Bryan.
    “In one of Luke Bryan’s songs,” said Museum Director Kyle Young, “he says: ‘If you want to know the real me / Just turn the page in my dirt road diary.'” In this exhibiton, Luke is an open book, sharing insights into his life and music with museum visitors. He joins Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert in the list of contemporary artists featured in special summer exhibits that look at country music stardom in the twenty-first century.”
    Since the release of his first album, in 2007, Bryan has placed 12 singles at #1 and sold millions of albums and digital tracks. He has been named Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. Bryan’s latest album, Crash My Party, is certified double platinum, for sales of over two million copies. The set generated six consecutive #1 singles: “That’s My Kind of Night,” “Crash My Party,” “Drink a Beer,” Play It Again,” “Roller Coaster” and “I See You.”  Bryan made Billboard chart history when he became the first artist to hold the top two positions on the trade publications Country Airplay chart since it began in 1990.
    Bryan played to 1.7 million fans last year, and in 2015 he will perform in Europe for the first time. Yesterday, he released his final Spring Break album, Spring Break…Checkin’ Out. The Georgia native embarks in May on a new tour, the Kick the Dust Up Tour.
    The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year, Bryan will co-host the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards with Blake Shelton on April 19.

  • LUKE BRYAN ‘SNAPS’ AND FANS ARE LOVING IT!

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    Luke Bryan has created his own Snapchat account. You can follow Luke at lukebryansnaps and watch his crazy antics, as well as what’s been happening at Panama City Beach during Spring Break, among other things. He’s the first country artist of his size to embrace the platform.

     

  • LUKE BRYAN IS ‘CHECKIN’ OUT’ WITH A TRIBUTE TO HIS FANS FOR SPRING BREAK.

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    Luke Bryan is releasing his latest — and final — Spring Break project, Checkin’ Out, this week. On the project, he includes a tribute to his fans titled, Spring Breakdown, which he co-wrote with Ashley Gorley and Zach Crowell.

    “I’ve never really done a big time fan tribute song, and ‘Spring Breakdown’ really is the first time I’ve really went down that path with a song. It just talks about all the memories of how we built the Spring Breaks, the first years we got there and all the beers and all the years. And the chorus talks about I’m going to ‘Spring Breakdown.’ I’m going to have a breakdown up here because of all the good times we’ve had and all the memories, and a pretty cool way to write the title,” says Luke. “It’s true appreciation and kind of a gift to the fans thanking them for all the memories.”

    Luke will celebrate his final Spring Break with two shows in Panama City, Florida on the beach at Spinnaker. More than 230,000 folks came out for last year’s shows.

    Audio / Luke Bryan says “Spring Breakdown” is a tribute to his fans.

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    Luke Bryan (Spring Breakdown) OC: …the memories. :53
    “I’ve never really done a big time fan tribute song, and ‘Spring Breakdown’ really is the first time I’ve really went down that path with a song. It just talks about all the memories of how we built the Spring Breaks, the first years we got there and all the beers and all the years. And the chorus talks about I’m going to ‘Spring Breakdown.’ I’m going to have a breakdown up here because of all the good times we’ve had and all the memories, and a pretty cool way to write the title. Me and Ashley Gorley and Zack Crowell got together on it, and first time I’ve written with Zack, and I love how it turned out. And the second we got done with it, I was like, ‘Yeah, this definitely feels like it’s got to go on the Spring Break,’ but it’s true appreciation and kind of a gift to the fans thanking them for all the memories.”

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  • LUKE BRYAN ‘CHECKS OUT’ SPRING BREAK ONE LAST TIME.

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    Luke Bryan releases his seventh and final Spring Break project, Checkin’ Out, Tuesday (March 10th), and he’ll follow it with two shows at Spinnaker in Panama City, Florida Wednesday (March 11th) and Thursday (March 12th).

    The two shows he does have been one of his favorite parts of the year, and they oftentimes inspire other songs and tour ideas.

    “Historically, if you go back, it’s always been one of the highlights of my year going down there and doing the show, just ‘cause it’s hard to turn down that much fun,” says Luke. “It’s been amazing to be able to go down there and do the Spring Break shows every year and get inspiration for new songs and new tours and tour ideas and stuff like that.”

    He also jokes about still being able to pull off his Spring Break shows. “I have been jokingly saying that it has been nice to continue Spring Break well into my ‘30s. I feel like I’ve done a lot better than my other buddies, because they certainly haven’t been going to Spring Break and partying with a bunch of college kids.”

    The full album includes all the songs from last year’s Like We Ain’t Ever EP, as well as several new songs, such as “Spring Breakdown” – an ode to his fans.

    Audio / Luke Bryan says one of his favorite parts of the year has been doing the Spring Break shows in Panama City.

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    Luke Bryan (Spring Break 7) 2 OC: …fun endeavors. :21
    “Historically, if you go back, it’s always been one of the highlights of my year going down there and doing the show, just ‘cause it’s hard to turn down that much fun. It gives me a sadness to have to let it go. But we feel it’s time, and I’ve got some fun stuff in order music-wise that will turn into other fun endeavors.”

    Audio / Luke Bryan says going to Panama City Beach to do his annual Spring Break shows has been such an inspiration on other parts of his career.

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    Luke Bryan (SB inspiration) OC: …stuff like that. :26
    “I have been jokingly saying that it has been nice to continue Spring Break well into my ‘30s. I feel like I’ve done a lot better than my other buddies, because they certainly haven’t been going to Spring Break and partying with a bunch of college kids. It’s been fun. It’s been amazing to be able to go down there and do the Spring Break shows every year and get inspiration for new songs and new tours and tour ideas and stuff like that.”

  • LUKE BRYAN WILL RELEASE A NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘SPRING BREAKDOWN’ TODAY.

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    Nashville- (March 6, 2015) – Just before kicking off his final Spring Break shows in Florida next week Luke Bryan will release a new music video for “Spring Breakdown,” one of the new tunes off his Spring Break…Checkin’ Out album in stores March 10.  VEVO and CMT.COM will exclusively premiere the clip today, Friday, March 6 with CMT’s HOT 20 show airing it as a bonus video this weekend, March 7 and 8.  Watch it here: http://vevo.ly/TOyEQ4

    Michael Monaco, longtime videographer for Luke, produced the video which features footage from the past six Spring Break shows highlighting some of the favorite moments.  It also features Luke recording the song in the studio earlier this year.

    Luke’s Spring Break concerts are set for next week on March 11 and 12 at Spinnaker Beach Club in Panama City, Florida where over 230,000 fans attended last year’s shows.

    Spring Break…Checkin’ Out will be available in record stores as well as digitally on March 10 and contains five *new, original songs all co-written by Luke plus all six songs from last year’s EP. Pre-order the album at http://umgn.us/LBSBCO .

     

    Spring Break…Checkin’ Out

    1. My Ol’ Bronco
    2.  Games
    3. She Get Me High
    4.  Spring Breakdown
    5. Good Lookin’ Girl
    6. Checkin’ Out
    7. You And The Beach
    8. Night One
    9.   Like We Ain’t Ever
    10. The Sand I Brought To The Beach
    11. Are You Leaving With Him

     

    Luke’s collection of all six previous Spring Break releases combined have over 1.1 million sales to date.

     

    Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke Bryan has placed 12 singles at No. 1 and sold nearly 7 million albums with 27 million digital tracks from his four studio albums and has been named Entertainer of the Year for both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association.  Luke’s latest album Crash My Party was 2013’s best-selling country album which sold over two million copies with 8 million digital downloads, is certified Double Platinum, won the Billboard Music Award for “Top Country Album” and contains six consecutive No. 1 hit singles- “That’s My Kind of Night,” “Crash My Party,” “Drink A Beer,” Play It Again,” “Roller Coaster” and “I See You.”  Luke made Billboard chart history last year by reaching the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart with “Play It Again” and “This Is How We Roll” with Florida Georgia Line claiming the No. 2 spot.  Luke became the first artist to ever hold the two top positions since the chart began in 1990.  Luke Bryan achieved the best touring year of his career in 2014 with 1.7 million fans attending his concerts.  In 2015, Luke will play his first-ever shows in Europe, release his final Spring Break album on March 10, be honored with a summer exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and will embark on a new tour in May, “Kick The Dust Up Tour.”

    Luke is the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year and will co-host the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards with Blake Shelton for a third consecutive year on April 19, 2015.  Luke has four nominations for this year’s ACM’s – Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist, Song of the Year for “Drink A Beer” and Vocal Event for “This Is How We Roll” with Florida Georgia Line.

     

    Visit www.LukeBryan.com or follow Luke on Twitter @LukeBryanOnline, Instagram and Facebook.

  • LUKE BRYAN WILL MISS PERFORMING HIS ANNUAL SPRING BREAK CONCERTS.

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    Luke Bryan will release his final Spring Break album, Spring Break…Checkin’ Out, Tuesday (March 10th). The collection will contain five new, original songs all co-written by Luke, plus all six songs from last year’s EP.  Luke’s collection of all six previous Spring Break releases combined have over 1.1 million sales to date.

    He’ll follow the release of his Spring Break album with two free shows at Spinnaker Beach Club in Panama City Beach March 11th and 12th. He says the shows on the beach will be one of the things he misses most since this is his final year.

    “I sleep on the bus during Spring Break. I wake up, open up the blinds and the sun is out, drink some coffee. Most of the time I’m kicking a hangover.  And just watching the day kind of get going, watch everybody start piling in on the beach about 3,” says Luke. “Just being there, being around – being around people having the time of their life is inspiring, and that’s definitely what I’ll miss, watching the fans just make memories that will last forever with them.”

    Over 230,000 fans came out for last year’s shows.

    Audio / Luke Bryan says he’ll miss the people most of all when he plays his last Spring Break show.

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    Luke Bryan (what he’ll miss about SB) OC: …with them. :34
    “I love just waking up in the morning. I sleep on the bus during Spring Break. I wake up, open up the blinds and the sun is out, drink some coffee. Most of the time I’m kicking a hangover.  And just watching the day kind of get going, watch everybody start piling in on the beach about 3. Just the whole day. Just being there, being around – being around people having the time of their life is inspiring and that’s definitely what I’ll miss, watching the fans just make memories that will last forever with them.”

  • LUKE BRYAN, DIERKS BENTLEY, DARIUS RUCKER AND SAM HUNT WILL PERFORM AT THE ACM PARTY FOR A CAUSE FESTIVAL.

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    Encino, CA (March 5, 2015) –The Academy of Country Music and dick clark productions announced that the ACM Party for a Cause Festival will feature an unprecedented lineup of country music legends and this year’s ACM Award nominees and chart-topping artists including Dierks Bentley, Clint Black, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Sam Hunt, Miranda Lambert, Patty Loveless, Ronnie Milsap, Darius Rucker, Dwight Yoakam, Alabama, Eli Young Band, Florida Georgia Line and more to be announced in the coming weeks. The two-day outdoor music festival celebrating the 50TH ACM Awards will take place on April 17-18, 2015 at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas and be taped for a two hour special, “ACM Presents: Superstar Duets!,” which will air on Friday, May 15 on the CBS Television Network.

    Ticket packages to the ACM Party for a Cause Festival INCLUDING the 50th ACM Awards are available NOW at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets to the ACM Awards sold out last spring in a record 18 minutes but as staging changes became final for the ACM Awards, seats to the previously SOLD OUT Awards were added and are now part of this package.   Additional festival performers and lineup details will be announced in the coming weeks.

    “For the Academy’s milestone anniversary, we wanted more fans than ever to join us in our party and we thought it was a perfect fit to combine the ACM Party for A Cause Festival and our annual CBS special into one historic event,” said Bob Romeo, CEO of the Academy of Country Music. “Fans and viewers can expect a night of surprises from an all-star lineup of performers who have graced our ACM Awards stage throughout the past 50 years.”

    The 3rd Annual ACM Party for a Cause Festival, beginning at 12:00 PM on April 17-18, 2015, will include multiple stages for ongoing LIVE country music performances, interactive experiences, a family-friendly country marketplace with food trucks and vendors from around the country, and much more, all leading up to the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards, which will be broadcast LIVE for the first time ever from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network. Proceeds from ticket sales for the 3rd Annual ACM Party for a Cause Festival will benefit ACM Lifting Lives®, the charitable arm of the Academy.

    ACM Presents: Superstar Duets! is produced for television by dick clark productions. Allen Shapiro, Mike Mahan and R.A. Clark are executive producers.  Mark Bracco, Barry Adelman and Tom Forrest are co-executive producers. Bob Romeo is executive producer for the Academy of Country Music.

  • LUKE, CHURCH, DIERKS, LADY A, AJ, LBT, DARIUS, KEITH AND SAM HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS PERFORMERS FOR THIS YEAR’S CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL.

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    NASHVILLE – CMA Music Festival will be the hottest concert destination of the summer with today’s announcement that Country Music superstars Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Eric Church,Brett Eldredge, Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt,Alan Jackson, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town,Neal McCoy, Oak Ridge Boys, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Thomas Rhett, Darius Rucker, Cole Swindell,The Band Perry, Keith Urban, Wynonna & The Big Noise, and Zac Brown Band will each take the stage during the Nightly Concerts at LP Field. The 2015 CMA Music Festival takes place Thursday, June 11-Sunday, June 14 in downtown Nashville.

    Subscribers to CMA Exclusive, CMA’s e-newsletter, were the first to learn about the star-studded lineup Wednesday morning.

    “CMA Music Festival is all about the fan experience,” said CMA Chief Executive Officer Sarah Trahern. “Our fans snapped up LP Field tickets at a record pace, and we wanted to reward that loyalty by sharing this exciting lineup with them first this morning.”  

    While the relationship between artists and fans is the foundation for the event, CMA Music Festival benefits music education programs for children in need. Wednesday morning, Thomas Rhett welcomed guests to Nashville Children’s Theatre for a performance of “Jack’s Tale: A Mythic Mountain Musical,” which was funded by a $10,000 grant from the CMA Foundation from the 2014 CMA Music Festival. Threats of snow in Nashville prevented a majority of students from attending, but he warmly greeted the enthusiastic crowd.

    “When I was little I was in a play called ‘A Christmas Carol’. I was Scrooge,” Thomas Rhett told the student-filled crowd. “Music education was super important for me, and today was a good reminder of how neat it is to see the Country Music community band together to help give back to that through CMA Fest.”

    The CMA Foundation presents grants on behalf of the artists who perform at CMA Music Festival each year for free and has donated more than $11 million to music education initiatives across the country since 2006.

    Tickets to the Nightly Concerts at LP Field sold out in November. Across the river from the stadium, there are countless free and low-cost entertainment options for fans around downtown Nashville as part of the CMA Music Festival. Seven free entertainment stages give fans an opportunity to choose their musical adventure, including the hugely popular Chevrolet Riverfront Stage, which consistently fills the Cumberland riverbank each of the four days.

    AT&T U-verse Fan Fair X at Music City Center moves the CMA Music Festival party inside, with musical performances on three stages, artist interactions, meet-and-greets, shopping and other unique fan experiences. Tickets to AT&T U-verse Fan Fair X are available now atCMAfest.com (AT&T U-verse Fan Fair X admission is included in four-day CMA Music Festival tickets). AT&T U-verse Fan Fair X tickets are $10 per day or $25 for a four-day pass.

    The Nightly Concerts will be taped for a three-hour prime time special airing later this summer on the ABC Television Network.

    For upcoming talent announcements and all other info stay connected with CMA on Facebook.com/CMA,Twitter.com/CountryMusic, Instagram.com/CMA, and sign up for CMA Exclusive, CMA’s e-newsletter. Fans can also download the 2015 CMA Music Festival mobile app foriPhone or Android to view the latest artist lineups and to plan their festival experience.

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