Luke Bryan remains at the top of the country album chart with his Spring Break…Here to Party collection. The disc sold nearly 61,000 copies this week to land at number-one on the country chart and at number-three on the overall chart. Here to Party debuted at number-one on the Billboard Top 200 chart after selling 150,000 copies. The collection of songs, including “If You Ain’t Here to Party,” “Buzzkill,” “Just a Sip,” “Suntan City” and “Cold Beer Drinker,” is the perfect backdrop for Spring Break at the beach. Luke was just at Panama City Beach last week to play a two-night stand there for the Spring Break revelers, and he says he would often spend his vacation at the beach growing up. “I grew up three hours from Panama City. I mean I think everybody has an attraction to the water and the beach, the lake and rivers and all that stuff, and I’ve always been that way,” says Luke. “I think the beach just makes you feel good, just being out on the water, the salt air all that stuff.”

Luke continues his Dirt Road Diaries Tour Thursday (March 21st) in Florence, South Carolina.

AUDIO: Luke Bryan says he and his family would vacation at Panama City Beach when he was a kid, and then he and his buddies would spend Spring Break down there. He played a pair of shows at PCB last week to promote his album, Spring Break…Here to Party.

Luke Bryan (PCB) OC: …rolling into town. :22
“I grew up three hours from Panama City. I mean I think everybody has an attraction to the water and the beach, the lake and rivers and all that stuff, and I’ve always been that way. I think the beach just makes you feel good, just being out on the water, the salt air all that stuff. So, yeah, as a boy we went [on] vacations there, and so there’s nothing like rolling the windows down and smelling the beach when you’re rolling into town.”