{"id":33409,"date":"2025-10-07T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=33409"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:50:06","slug":"luke-combs-is-the-highest-selling-country-artist-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/luke-combs-is-the-highest-selling-country-artist-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Is The Highest-Selling Country Artist Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Combs just passed Garth Brooks to become the highest-selling country artist of all time!<\/p>\n<p>According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Luke now holds 168 million certified units from sales and streams. That tops Garth&#8217;s long-standing record of 162.5 million total.<\/p>\n<p>This makes Luke not just country&#8217;s new all-time leader, but also one of the most successful artists across all genres. He&#8217;s currently ranked ninth overall.<\/p>\n<p>Luke reacted to the news with genuine disbelief.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When my team first told me about this, my initial reaction was, &#8216;Are you sure? There&#8217;s no way&#8217; . . . I&#8217;m super humbled by the fans&#8217; belief in me and support of my music. This achievement is more so theirs than it is mine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep in mind, he only got his first gold plaque EIGHT years ago, and he&#8217;s already the highest-selling country artist of all time.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPeGyk7jC1t\/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 Combs Passes Garth Brooks to Become the Highest-Selling Country Artist of All Time","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[56,78,5925,3521],"class_list":["post-33409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-garth-brooks","tag-luke-combs","tag-recording-industry-association-of-america","tag-riaa"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 09:53:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/luke-combs-is-the-highest-selling-country-artist-of-all-time\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}