‘Catch of the Day’ – Blake Shelton [VIDEO] “Gonna”

Today's catch of the day is from probably the most visible artist in Country music today. From TV to music, commercials and now movies, he is everywhere!

Blake Shelton first moved to Nashville just two weeks after graduating high school, in 1994. Just 17 at the time, he soon got a job with a music publishing company and three years later, with the help of songwriter Bobby Braddock ("He Stopped Loving Her Today, People Are Crazy), Shelton received a production contract from Sony Music.

In 2001, Shelton signed with Giant Records; he was slated to release his debut single "I Want To Talk About Me" on the label, but the record company retracted the single, stating they didn't feel it was suitable for a lead single. The song would instead be recorded by Toby Keith, who would take it to #1 in 2001. The record company instead decided to release "Austin" as the lead single from Shelton's self-titled debut album Shortly after, Giant Records closed and Shelton was folded into its parent company, Warner Bros. Records. "Austin" went on spend 5 weeks at #1.

In December of 2005, several of Shelton's songs, including "Nobody But Me", appeared on the TV movie The Christmas Blessing, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Rebecca Gayheart, Angus T. Jones, and Rob Lowe. Shelton had a small role at the end of the movie, playing himself at a benefit concert, singing "Nobody But Me". It was Shelton's national television debut.

Shelton has slowly made himself quite a visible figure through various forms of media. In 2011 he began his run as a coach on the Reality Series The Voice. In 8 seasons on the program, he has coached 4 of his proteges onto season championships, including a remarkable run during season 2-4 where all three winners were coached by Shelton. These champions were Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbury and the show's season 7 winner, Craig Wayne Boyd. During this time he also coached The Swon Brothers to a season 4 3rd place finish.

In 2009, Shelton released the single "Hillbilly Bone" with Trace Adkins, from Blake's album of the same title. It start Shelton on an incredible run of 15 straight number one singles, still running as his most recent single "Sangria", which is currently sitting atop the country chart. That leaves just one mountain left for Shelton to climb...acting.

Shelton is slated to make his movie debut in Adam Sandler's Rediculous 6, a spoof on American Westerns. Shelton will be playing Wyatt Earp in the film, which will also star Sandler, Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider, Terry Crews, Luke Wilson, Dan Akroyd, Nick Nolte, Danny Trejo, Will Forte, Steve Buscemi and Vanilla Ice.

In 14 years, Shelton has released 8 studio albums, 1 greatest hits album and a Christmas album, which have placed 27 singles in the top-20, 22 of those have reached the top-10 and 20 have gone to #1. His most recent album, Bringing Back The Sunshine, has already placed three songs at the top of the chart, "Neon Light", "Lonely Tonight" and "Sangria". The fourth single from this gold certified album is in the spotlight today. Blake Shelton and "Gonna" is our Catch of the Day, new music you haven't heard, but you'll want to hear it again.