{"id":3865,"date":"2019-06-21T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:15:47","slug":"luke-combs-blown-away-by-opry-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/06\/luke-combs-blown-away-by-opry-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Still Blown Away By Opry Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/meo-p8c_wxg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Luke Combs was recently invited to be the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry. The honour was quite unexpected, and Luke took several minutes to compose himself after becoming emotional.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Just talk about not knowing what to say or like what to do. And yeah, they got me real good because my parents were here and I didn\u2019t know it, everybody I work with is here and I didn\u2019t know it, but I was like genuinely floored- like absolutely flabbergasted. Holy cow! I just can\u2019t believe it. I just can\u2019t even put it into words really. It\u2019s unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luke continues to break records this week following the release of his new EP, The Prequel. All five tracks from the EP are currently in Billboard &#8216;s Hot Country Songs Top 25, a feat not accomplished by any artist in 60 years since Johnny Cash in 1959. The songs are also in the Top 10 of Billboard\u2019s Country Songs Sales chart. At the same time, Luke has achieved the largest streaming week ever for a country artist and currently holds the top two spots on Billboard\u2019s Top Country Albums chart with The Prequel (No. 1) and his debut album, This One\u2019s For You (No. 2). The Prequel also debuted at No. 4 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart.<\/p>\n<p>The debut single from The Prequel, \u201cBeer Never Broke My Heart,\u201d debuted at No. 2 on Billboard\u2019s Country Streaming Songs chart with 11 million streams\u2014setting the record for the best first week of streaming ever for a country song. It also debuted at No. 15 on Billboard\u2019s Country Airplay chart, the top entrance by any artist since September 2012 and Luke\u2019s highest debut to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Combs continues to break records this week following the release of his new EP, The Prequel.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[78,91,762],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-luke-combs","tag-opry","tag-the-prequel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 22:33:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/06\/luke-combs-blown-away-by-opry-invitation\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}