Luke Bryan: ‘People Want To Hear Me Sing Party Songs’
Luke Bryan’s seventh studio album Born Here Live Here Die Here debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart this week, making it his sixth consecutive appearance in the top position.
The album also becomes Luke’s eleventh top 10 album on Billboard’s Top 200.
Bryan says, “This album has been in the works for a long time. I’m grateful to my fans for waiting for it, for radio playing the songs that allowed me to debut a new album with three #1 hits and to my entire team for hanging in there and staying just as enthusiastic about this music as me.”
The album contains three back-to-back #1 singles, “Knockin’ Boots,” “What She Wants Tonight,” and “One Margarita,” the latter of which is Bryan’s 25th career #1 single, with more than 100 million streams and the song’s video has more than 15 million views on YouTube.
Bryan told us before releasing the new album, “Naturally, people want to hear me sing party songs. I learned that when you look at the success of ‘One Margarita.’ So any time I can find some songs that really do a better job at shows showcasing that aspect of my singing ability… I think I always have to really, really try to push the envelope and sing. And I think a song like that maybe somebody’ll hear it and go, ‘Hey, we really didn’t know he could sing like that.'”
He adds, “I think that’s just me waking up every day trying to always prove something a little more and always trying to better myself. But it’s a challenging song we had to work hard at it and get the vocal knocked out.”
This Wednesday (8/19), The Circle Network will celebrate Luke’s new album with a network takeover called “Luke Bryan Lives Here.” The night will include an encore of Opry Live featuring Luke and Darius Rucker at the Grand Ole Opry from August 15th as well as the broadcast of his performance from the Grand Ole Opry’s Opry Goes Pink from October 2019.
