{"id":37876,"date":"2014-10-23T04:45:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T09:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=37876"},"modified":"2014-10-23T04:45:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T09:45:52","slug":"blake-shelton-makes-history-on-latest-billboard-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/23\/blake-shelton-makes-history-on-latest-billboard-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton Makes Country History as Billboard’s #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blakeshelton03\"Blake Shelton Makes History as First Country Artist to Hit #1 on the Billboard Artist 100<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

After debuting at #1 on The Billboard 200 Album Chart last week with his new album Bringing Back the Sunshine<\/em> Blake Shelton<\/a> makes history as the first country music artist to hit #1 on the Billboard Artist 100. The chart, which factors in album and digital song sales, plus radio airplay, saw Blake rise from #19 to #1. \u201cNeon Light,\u201d the first single from the new album is Top 5 and climbing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The four-time and reigning CMA Male Vocalist of the Year has 3 nominations for the upcoming CMA Awards including Entertainer of the Year, which he won in 2012, Male Vocalist and Single of the Year for \u201cMine Would Be You.\u201d<\/p>\n

He wrapped his sold-out Ten Times Crazier Tour 2014<\/em> \u2014 including performances at NYC\u2019s Madison Square Garden as well, Chicago\u2019s Wrigley Field Stadium playing to a capacity crowd of over 40,000 fans as only the fourth country artist to have ever played the iconic 100 year-old ball park and LA\u2019s historic Hollywood Bowl. Celebrating thirteen years since his first single \u201cAustin\u201d hit the top of the country radio charts, Shelton holds 17 No. 1 singles to his credit, recently breaking his own record for most consecutive No. 1\u2019s at country radio. With 12 singles, including five from his last album alone, Shelton has the most No.1\u2019s in a row on the country radio charts by any artist.
\nJoining the ranks of the Grand Ole Opry as a member since 2010, Shelton has earned a host of awards and nominations throughout his career, including three new CMA Award nominations this year for Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year, along with Song of the Year for \u201cMine Would Be You.\u201d Shelton will return as a coach for his seventh season of NBC\u2019s Emmy winning reality competition series, The Voice, which premiered September 22nd.<\/p>\n

\u2022 3 RIAA certified Platinum albums
\n\u2022 5 RIAA certified Gold albums
\n\u2022 17 total No. 1 country singles
\n\u2022 12 consecutive No. 1 country singles \u2013 The only country artist to achieve this in the monitored airplay era
\n\u2022 7.6 million albums and 22.8 million singles sold
\n\u2022 Over 3.5 billion impressions in 2013
\n\u2022 Reigning CMA Male Vocalist of the year \u2013 4 consecutive years
\n\u2022 2013 CMA Album of the Year for Based On a True Story\u2026
\n\u2022 Winning coach of NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Voice\u201d for 3 out of 6 seasons<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Posted by TawnyTucker CMTT<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blake Shelton Makes History as First Country Artist to Hit #1 on the Billboard Artist 100 After debuting at #1 on The Billboard 200 Album Chart last week with his new album Bringing Back the Sunshine Blake Shelton makes history as the first country music artist to hit #1 on the Billboard Artist 100. The chart, which factors in album and digital song sales, plus radio airplay, saw Blake rise from #19 to #1. \u201cNeon Light,\u201d the first single from the new album is Top 5 and climbing. The four-time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}