{"id":33481,"date":"2025-10-15T06:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=33481"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:57:37","slug":"luke-bryan-says-hes-making-new-music-for-one-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/luke-bryan-says-hes-making-new-music-for-one-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Bryan Says He&#8217;s Making New Music For One Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Luke Bryan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0might&#8217;ve just given the funniest reason ever for staying in country music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a recent\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;CMT&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0interview, a group of fans messed with him by screaming, &#8220;Blake, we love you!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Without missing a beat, Luke yelled back, &#8220;Kiss my butt!&#8221;\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That&#8217;s when the interviewer mentioned that\u00a0<\/span><b>Blake Shelton<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0is still behind Luke in the total amount of #1s, and Luke&#8217;s proud of that fact.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the only reason I&#8217;m still in the game of country music . . . \u00a0to stay ahead. \u00a0I thought [Blake] was retiring . . . he&#8217;s back putting songs out. \u00a0It&#8217;s not the deal we had.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As of now, Luke sits at 32 career #1 hits, with his latest being\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Country Song Came On&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 \u00a0And Blake is close behind with 30.\u00a0 His latest #1 is his single\u00a0<\/span><b><i>&#8220;Texas&#8221;<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There&#8217;s nothing better than a mock rivalry, and Luke and Blake have one of the best.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPpHCBgEQst\/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><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke vs Blake ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":31425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,34],"class_list":["post-33481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-luke-bryan"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 15:03:21","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-bryan-says-hes-making-new-music-for-one-reason\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33481","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33483,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33481\/revisions\/33483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}