Nashville
– December 8, 2020
– Four-time Entertainer of the
Year and American Idol judge Luke Bryan reigns as Billboard’s Top Country Artist of the 2010s as announced by the magazine last week.
Based on their charts, he ranks at the top by placing 11 #1s on the weekly Hot
Country Songs chart and nine #1s on the Top Country Albums chart during the
last decade.
Luke began 2020 with his annual Crash My Playa destination
concert event weekend in Mexico in January followed by the launch of his Two
Lane American Golden Lager beer this spring, both prior to the pandemic. But 2020’s first big
challenge came as the American Idol season was already under way. After
extensive consideration for the health and safety of everyone involved in the
show, Idol continued virtually through its season finale in May from the
homes of the hosts, judges, and contestants. Filming for the 2021 season began this
August and has also seen production adaptations due to COVID-19.
Luke’s originally planned 2020 “Proud To Be Right
Here” Tour was pushed into 2021 and his BORN HERE LIVE HERE DIE HERE album
release moved from April to August this year. The project was released through a
wide variety of virtual media appearances and television performances beginning
with his first pre-taped performance for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in
early summer performing “Build Me A Daddy.” More appearances followed including
the 2020
Summer Citi Music Series on TODAY, Late Night
with Seth Meyers, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Watch What Happens Live, Opry Live,
Circle Sessions: Luke Bryan, People Now, Access Hollywood, E! News, Entertainment
Tonight, Extra, CMT HOT 20 as well as a special themed CMT
HOT 25 show to honor Luke accomplishing his 25th #1 single in
2020. Luke also appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at the request of friend
Jason Derulo who was guest hosting the show this summer. On Good Morning
America, Luke surprised a young coach- and Luke fan- that he would not lose
his job due to cuts backs caused by the pandemic because funding was raised for
his mentoring/coaching program. Luke also appeared on Fine Brothers
Entertainment, Barstool Sports, Delish, Adam Carolla Show, Rachel Hollis and
Good Mythical Morning and launched his own Apple radio station this year, Party
Barn Radio.
Additional performances in 2020 included the ACM
Awards and the CMT Awards, where Luke took home the trophy for “One
Margarita” as the Male Artist of the Year video. The song has more garnered
than 244 million streams and the video has seen nearly 27 million views on
YouTube.
In November, Luke was a part of the Doobie Brothers
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction and for multiple consecutive years, Luke
was again part of ABC’s CMA Awards special, “Country Strong 2020: Countdown To
The CMA Awards” as Robin
Roberts presented a look at the year that changed the
country and the country music community.
Luke will begin 2021 with American Idol premiering
February 14.
About Luke Bryan
Since
his debut in 2009, Luke has released 25 #1 hits and has more RIAA certified
digital singles than any other country artist with 54.5 million. Luke has also
tallied 13.8 Billion streams, 12.5 million albums sold with plus four Platinum
albums, two 4x-Platinum albums, seven RIAA certified albums, 22 Platinum
singles and 12 Multi-Platinum singles. At the close of last year, Luke was
named as the first-ever recipient of the ACM Album of the Decade Award for
CRASH MY PARTY and was the named the Most Heard Artist of the Decade by Country
Aircheck.
Luke’s
seven headline concert tours have played for 12 million fans including 36
stadium concerts, 11 Farm Tours, six years of Spring Break shows and six
sold-out Crash My Playa concert events. He was recognized as a CMT Artist of
the Year six consecutive times, was twice named the Entertainer of the Year by
BOTH the Academy of Country Music
and the Country Music Association and was honored as a NSAI Artist/Songwriter
of the Year. In total Luke has won over 40 music awards including six ACM
awards, seven CMT Music Awards, five Billboard Music Awards, four American
Music Awards, two CMA awards, an iHeart and a Teen Choice award and more.
Visit www.LukeBryan.com
or follow Luke on Twitter @LukeBryanOnline,
Instagram and Facebook