During preparations for his performances at the MusiCares Gala and the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards® where he paid tribute to music icon Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan learned his Kill The Lights album has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. The reigning ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year debuted the album at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200, his third consecutive album to do so, and Top Country Albums charts. Kill The Lights contains Luke’s two-week No. 1 single “Home Alone Tonight” featuring Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town and closed 2015 as the best-selling country album of the year and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Year-End list. Luke also wrapped 2015 as the most streamed country artist with 660 Million streams.
Tomorrow, Luke will launch his 2016 “Kill The Lights Tour” at the Ford Center in Evansville, IN performing nearly 70 concerts across the U.S. before wrapping this fall. The tour also includes five stadiums shows- July 16 in Boston, MA at Gillette Stadium, August 19, in Minneapolis, MN at U.S. Bank Stadium, August 27 in Chicago, IL at Wrigley Field, October 22 in Dallas, TX at AT&T Stadium, and closing out the tour on October 29 in Detroit, MI at Ford Field. Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch are the special guests on the “Kill The Lights Tour.”
2016 “Kill The Lights Tour”
2-18 Evansville, IN Ford Center
2-19 Peoria, IL Peoria Civic Center Arena
2-20 Cedar Falls, IA UNI Dome
2-25 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
2-26 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena **
2-27 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena **
3-8 Las Cruces, NM Pan American Center**
3-11 Little Rock, AR Verizon Arena **
3-12 Bossier City, LA CenturyLink Center **
4-7 Charleston, WV Charleston Civic Center Coliseum
4-8 Baltimore, MD Royal Farms Arena
4-9 Syracuse, NY Carrier Dome
4-14 Toledo, OH The Huntington Center
4-15 State College, PA Bryce Jordan Center
4-16 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena
4-21 Missoula, MT Adams Center
4-22 Bozeman, MT Brick Breeden Fieldhouse
4-29 Concord, CA Concord Pavilion
4-30 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
5-1 Indio, CA Stagecoach
5-12 Omaha, NE CenturyLink Center
5-13 Wichita, KS INTRUST Bank Arena
5-14 Oklahoma City, OK Chesapeake Energy Arena
5-20 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheater
5-21 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheater
5-27 Baton Rouge, LA Bayou Country Superfest*
5-29 Daytona Beach, FL Florida Country Superfest*
6-2 Holmdel, NJ P.N.C. Bank Arts Center
6-3 Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall
6-4 Hershey, PA Hershey Park Stadium
6-9 Virginia Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
6-10 Washington, DC Jiffy Lube Live
6-11 Washington, DC Jiffy Lube Live
6-17 Oshkosh, WI Country USA*
6-19 Columbus, OH Buckeye Country Superfest*
6-24 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
6-25 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
7-7 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest*
7-8 Indianapolis, IN Klipsch Music Center
7-9 Indianapolis, IN Klipsch Music Center
7-16 Boston, MA Gillette Stadium
7-17 Bangor, ME Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion
7-21 Scranton, PA The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
7-22 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagara Pavilion
7-23 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagara Pavilion
7-29 Philadelphia, PA BB&T Pavilion
7-30 Philadelphia, PA BB&T Pavilion
7-31 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
8-11 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
8-12 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
8-13 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
8-14 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
8-19 Minneapolis, MN U.S. Bank Stadium
8-21 Calgary, AB Country Thunder Calgary*
8-25 Bonner Springs, KS Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
8-26 St. Louis, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
8-27 Chicago, IL Wrigley Field
9-1 Raleigh, NC Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
9-2 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
9-9 Denver, CO Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
9-10 Denver, CO Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
9-15 Sacramento, CA Toyota Amphitheatre
9-16 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
9-22 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
9-30 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
10-1 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
10-22 Dallas, TX AT&T Stadium
10-29 Detroit, MI Ford Field
Dates and Cities subject to change
*festival date
**no Little Big Town
Since the debut of his first album in 2007, Luke has placed 15 singles at No. 1 and sold nearly eight million albums with 30 million digital tracks from his five studio albums. He has twice been named Entertainer of the Year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. His fifth studio album, Kill The Lights, debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 (his third to do so) and Top Country Albums charts and closed 2015 with the best-selling country album of the year and the 10th biggest selling album on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Year-End list. In Luke’s stellar 2015 year, he had three albums on the Top 15 Year-End Country Albums list- Kill the Lights (#1), Spring Break…Checkin’ Out (#10) and Crash My Party (#15), was the most streamed country artist of 2015 with 660 Million streams and placed six songs in the Year-End Top Country Streaming Tracks list. Luke also performed for 1.5 million fans in concert, played for 400,000 fans at Spring Break in Florida, co-hosted the ACM Awards for a third-consecutive year, had his own exhibit at The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (“Luke Bryan: Dirt Road Diary”), became the reigning ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year, performed live during halftime at the Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving and wrapped up the year with a live Times Square performance on ABC’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.”
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