Luke Combs. Photo: Jim Wright
This week, Luke Combs became the second artist ever to simultaneously top all five Billboard Country charts. His hit “Beautiful Crazy” topped the Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, Country Streaming Songs and Country Digital Song Sales charts and This One’s For You topped the Top Country Albums chart, all dated March 9, 2019. Kane Brown was the first artist to achieve this impressive feat in 2017.
“Beautiful Crazy” is the first country single shipped to radio already Platinum-certified since Taylor Swift’s “Red” in 2013. His Platinum debut album, This One’s For You, was the highest selling country album in 2018 with 1.1 million equivalent album units sold and the only country album to surpass 1 million album units in 2018. It’s also the most-streamed country album of 2019, so far. Additionally, Combs was recently nominated for two 2019 ACM Awards (Male Artist of the Year and New Male Artist of the Year), won New Artist of the Year at the CMA Awards, was nominated for Best New Artist at the 61st Grammy Awards and recently won a CMA Triple Play Award for writing three No. 1 songs in a 12-month period
In celebration of these milestones, Combs recently released an acoustic version of “Beautiful Crazy.”
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