‘Catch of the Day’ – Luke Bryan – “Move” [AUDIO]

Today's focus is on a singer and songwriter who started his career in Nashville writing songs for artists like Billy Currington and Travis Tritt, and who is now currently on a streak of 13 consecutive #1 releases, a streak currently only second to Blake Shelton.

In 2006, along with his cousin Chad Boyd, Luke Bryan headed to Nashville and soon after was signed with Sony/ATV Publishing. One of the first songs he wrote became the title track for Travis Tritt's 2007 album My Honky-Tonk History. It had been a life-long dream for Bryan to become a Nashville success. At age 19 his first attempt to head to music had to be postponed, instead seeing the Leesburg, Georgia native land at Georgia Southern University, where he would graduate from in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration.

Soon after finding his first successes as a song writer, Bryan signed with Capitol Records Nashville. In the meantime, he wrote his first #1 single, "Good Directions" which hit number one for Billy Currington in 2007. When Luke's first single, "All My Friends Say" was released, he was invited to play the Grand Ole Opry and his sister Kelly organized over 125 people to attend his Opry debut. Only a few days later, she passed away of causes that remain undetermined to this day, the second such tragedy in his live, following the death of his brother Chris in a car accident that had sidelined his first attempt to move to Nashville.

Staggered but not knocked out, Bryan carried on in his siblings memory. "All My Friends Say", the lead single from Bryan's debut album climb to #5 on the charts and led the way for his 2007 debut album I'll Stay Me. Bryan has been one the busiest artists in country music ever since, with specialty and benefit concerts, yearly tours and 5 studio albums (all of which have been certified platinum and hit #1 on the Country Albums chart), 6 "Spring Break" live EP's, 2 compilation packages of those Spring Break concerts, a live EP of his annual Farm Tour concert series. Bryan has released 20 singles from the 5 studio albums, of which 15 of those have hit the #1 spot. Only one single released by Bryant, 2007's "We Rode In Trucks", the second single from his debut album, has failed to make the top-10 on the Billboard Country charts.

Bryan is the only artist in any genre to ever record 6 number 1 singles from one album, his 2013 album Crash My Party, and his current streak of 13 straight chart-topping singles is second only to Blake Shelton's current streak of 20 straight #1s. His current album, Kill The Lights, released in August of 2015, has already produced 4 #1 hits, and is looking for #5; we have that fifth single in our spotlight today. The latest from Luke Bryan "Move" is today's Catch of the Day, new music you haven't heard, but you'll want to hear it again.