{"id":45167,"date":"2025-09-02T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=45167"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:48:16","slug":"luke-bryans-biggest-song-never-his-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/luke-bryans-biggest-song-never-his-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Bryan&#8217;s Biggest Song Never His #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Bryan has racked up 31 #1 hits in his career, but one of his biggest songs never made it to the top of the charts.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2011, he released &#8220;Country Girl (Shake It for Me)&#8221; as the lead single from his album &#8220;Tailgates &amp; Tanlines,&#8221; but it only reached as high as #4 on the country charts.<\/p>\n<p>Luke&#8217;s label estimated that &#8220;Country Girl&#8221; was being pirated as much as 20 million times a week.<\/p>\n<p>But it also spread the song far beyond country radio, so he&#8217;s not mad.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What a life-altering song for me . . . I&#8217;ll get to play it until I&#8217;m 80 years old, making some country girls have fun and dance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNi6nDAudWJ\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Bryan Could&#8217;ve Had More #1s If it Wasn&#8217;t for All the Illegal Downloads","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":43304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1532,6553,29],"class_list":["post-45167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-country-girl-shake-it-for-me","tag-illegal-downloads","tag-luke-bryan"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 13:53:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/luke-bryans-biggest-song-never-his-1\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45169,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45167\/revisions\/45169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}