Luke Bryan's Hard Work Pays Off

Nashville, TN – October 14, 2009 – Capitol Records Nashville’s hottest rising star Luke Bryan lands at #2 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and #6 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 album chart selling over 57,000 albums of his sophomore album “Doin’ My Thing” in its first week of release. This more than doubled the first week sales of his debut album “I’ll Stay Me” in 2007 proving the Georgianative’s hard work to expand his fan base is paying off.

“I am completely blown away by the fan support,” said Luke Bryan. “I went into making this record hoping to show real growth as an artist and I hope I have accomplished that! This is a real great day for me and everyone who has worked so hard!”

“Do I”, the album’s lead single is currently sitting at #9, but still climbing, on both Billboard and Mediabase charts and the video a 7-week #1 on GAC. Bryan has been on an intense 9 day – 9 city tour to promote the release of his album including Statesboro, GA; Leesburg, GA; Charlotte, NC; Greenville, SC; Tampa, FL; Atlanta, GA; Augusta, GA; Chicago, IL and he wraps it up tonight in Minneapolis, MN.

Since the release of his self-titled debut album in August 2007, Bryan has solidified his place among the ranks of some of country music’s biggest and most promising rising stars with two top ten hits (“All My Friends Say” and “Country Man”), two major award nominations including the CMT Breakthrough Video of the Year nomination and his first nomination from the Academy of Country Music for “Best New Male Artist.” He has garnered national sponsors and partnerships with Longhorn Steakhouse, Jack Daniels and his most recent sponsor Miller Lite. He was also chosen as Billboard’s 2007 country artist to watch and landing on “Best of 2007” lists for: Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Clear Channel Online Music & Radio to name a few. Bryan has been part of three major tours before this year's Miller Lite headlining tour with some of country music’s biggest artists in 2008 - Kenny Chesney’s “Poets & Pirates” stadium dates, Trace Adkins’ “American Man” tour and Dierks Bentley’s “Throttle Wide Open” tour.

Bryan kicks off his inaugural headlining tour with his Miller Lite-sponsored “Doin’ My Thing” Tour on 10/29 in Estero, FL.

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