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LUKE BRYAN PERFORMS TWO SOLD-OUT SHOWS IN NASHVILLE, ALONG WITH SOME SPECIAL GUESTS. (PRESS RELEASE)

LUKE BRYAN PERFORMS TWO SOLD-OUT SHOWS IN NASHVILLE, ALONG WITH SOME SPECIAL GUESTS. (PRESS RELEASE)

Nashville – (October 19, 2013) –  Superstar and ACM Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan kept fans on their feet during two sold-out concerts this weekend at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.  The shows were a part of Luke’s “Dirt Road Diaries Tour,” which has sold-out all concerts in advance, including a five minute sell-out for both Nashville shows. Support acts this weekend included Florida Georgia Line and Thompson Square on Friday and Cole Swindell and Dierks Bentley tonight.

Special guests on Friday’s show included Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum who performed with Luke on his No. 1 hit “Do I,” a song they co-wrote together.

Also, backstage tonight Luke’s record label Capitol Nashville presented him with a Platinum plaque celebrating sales of one million albums in just six weeks on his recent release Crash My Party.  The album debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and Country sales charts with 527,783 units sold, making it the biggest sales debut for a Country male artist since 2004 and the fourth highest album to debut across all genres this year.

Luke’s “Dirt Road Diaries Tour” wraps next weekend, October 26 in West Palm Beach. He will launch a new tour in January 2014, “That’s My Kind of Night Tour.”