photo credit: Zack Massey
“the most promising and influential new country star of the last five
years”—The New York Times
years”—The New York Times
September 9, 2021—Reigning Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year award-winner Luke Combs is nominated in three categories at the 55th Annual CMA Awards: Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year and Song of the Year (“Forever After All”). The awards ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC from Nashville on Wednesday, November 10 at 8:00pm ET/7:00pm CT.
The nominations add to a monumental year for Combs, who recently earned his eleventh-consecutive #1 single with the platinum-certified “Forever After All,” a first on the chart the Billboard Country Airplay chart. “Forever After All” was also his tenth single to spend multiple weeks atop the chart and his eighth consecutive, multi-week #1 single. The song, which debuted at #2 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart this past November—the highest entrance ever for a male country solo artist—is also the sixth-consecutive #1 from Combs’ deluxe album, What You See Ain’t Always What You Get, tying the record for most #1 singles to come from the same album. Furthering his triumphant run at county radio, Combs’ current single, “Cold As You,” is currently top 15 at country radio and rising. Moreover, Combs recently released his new song, “South On Ya,” which has been selected as the official theme song for the SEC Network’s 2021 football season.
Out now via River House Artists/Columbia Nashville, What You See Ain’t Always What You Get debuted at #1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart as well as Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart last fall. The deluxe edition features all 18 tracks from Combs’ double Platinum-certified, global #1 album, What You See Is What You Get, as well as five new songs. With the release, Combs reached #1 on Rolling Stone’s Top 200 Albums chart, Top 100 Songs chart and Artists 500 chart—the first country artist ever to lead all three charts in the same week and first to top the Artists 500.
Combs also recently made history as the first artist ever to have their first two studio albums spend 25 weeks or more at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart—breaking Taylor Swift’s previously held record at 24 weeks. The achievement comes as What You See Is What You Get topped the chart for the 25th time last summer, while his 2017 debut, This One’s For You, has spent 50 non-consecutive weeks at #1—tying the record for the longest reign atop the chart with Shania Twain’s Come On Over in 1997.
Adding to an already groundbreaking and historic career, Combs will embark on an extensive headline arena tour this fall featuring a special new in-the-round stage design. Kicking off this weekend at Raleigh’s PNC Arena (two nights), the tour includes stops at New York’s Madison Square Garden (two nights), San Francisco’s Chase Center, Houston’s Toyota Center, Chicago’s United Center (two nights), Dallas’ American Airlines Center (two nights) and Boston’s TD Garden (two nights) among several others. See below for complete itinerary.
Additional notable achievements and recognitions:
- Winner of two awards at the 54th Annual CMA Awards: Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year (What You See Is What You Get).
- Winner of two awards at the 55th ACM Awards: Album of the Year (What You See Is What You Get) and Male Artist of the Year
- Recent winner of two iHeartRadio Music Awards: Country Artist of the Year and Country Album of the Year (What You See Ain’t Always What You Get)
- Nominated for Male Video of the Year (“Lovin’ On You”) and Performance of the Year (“1, 2 Many” with Brooks & Dunn) at 2021 CMT Music Awards.
- Won three awards at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards: Top Country Artist, Top Country Male Artist and Top Country Album (What You See Is What You Get)
- Only country artist to perform on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” Season 45
- Inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry
- Awarded CMT Performance of the Year at the 2019 CMT Music Awards for his CMT Crossroads performance of “Beautiful Crazy” with Leon Bridges
- Awarded Top Country Artist, Top Country Male Artist and Top Country Album at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards
- Awarded New Male Artist of the Year at the 54th ACM Awards.
- Awarded Country Artist of the Year at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards
- Awarded New Artist of the Year at the 52nd Annual CMA Awards
- Nominated for Best New Artist at the 61st GRAMMY Awards
- Recipient of a CMA Triple Play Award for writing three #1 songs in a 12-month period
- First artist to simultaneously top all five Billboard country charts for multiple weeks: Top Country Albums, Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, Country Streaming Songs and Country Digital Song Sales (dated March 9, March 30 and April 6)
- This One’s For You is certified RIAA Triple Platinum and was also the most-streamed country album of 2019.
- All five songs on his The Prequel EP charted on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Top 25—a feat not accomplished by any artist in 60 years since Johnny Cash in 1959.
WHAT YOU SEE AIN’T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET TRACK LIST
1. Beer Never Broke My Heart
2. Refrigerator Door
3. Even Though I’m Leaving
4. Lovin’ On You
5. Moon Over Mexico
6. 1, 2 Many (feat. Brooks & Dunn)
7. Blue Collar Boys
8. New Everyday
9. Reasons
10. Every Little Bit Helps
11. Dear Today
12. What You See Is What You Get
13. Does To Me (feat. Eric Church)
14. Angels Workin’ Overtime
15. All Over Again
16. Nothing Like You
17. Better Together
18. Six Feet Apart
19. Cold As You
20. The Other Guy
21. My Kinda Folk
22. Without You (feat. Amanda Shires)
23. Forever After All
LUKE COMBS CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
September 10—Raleigh, NC—PNC Arena
September 11—Raleigh, NC—PNC Arena
September 17—Grand Forks, ND—Alerus Center
September 18—Sioux Falls, SD—Denny Sanford Premier Center
September 21—Billings, MT—First Interstate Arena at MetraPark
September 28—Eugene, OR—Matthew Knight Arena
October 1—San Francisco, CA—Chase Center
October 2—Bakersfield, CA—Mechanics Bank Arena
October 14—Albuquerque, NM—Isleta Amphitheater
October 15—Las Cruces, NM—Pan American Center
October 16—Florence, AZ—Country Thunder Arizona
October 20—Colorado Springs, CO—Broadmoor World Arena
October 22—Corpus Christi, TX—American Bank Center
October 23—Houston, TX—Toyota Center
October 28—Orlando, FL—Amway Center
October 29—Jacksonville, FL—VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
October 30—Fort Lauderdale, FL—BB&T Center
November 4—Chicago, IL—United Center
November 5—Chicago, IL—United Center
November 6—St. Louis, MO—Enterprise Center
November 16—New Orleans, LA—Smoothie King Center
November 18—Dallas, TX—American Airlines Center
November 19—Dallas, TX—American Airlines Center
November 20—Memphis, TN—FedEx Forum
November 29—New York, NY—Madison Square Garden
November 30—New York, NY—Madison Square Garden
December 2—Boston, MA—TD Garden
December 3—Boston, MA—TD Garden
December 15—Las Vegas, NV—T-Mobile Arena
December 16—Salt Lake City, UT—Vivint Smart Home Arena
May 1, 2022—Indio, CA—Stagecoach
