Blake Shelton
Biography
Blake Tollison Shelton is a country music singer and television personality. Shelton has charted 50 singles, including 30 #1s, 17 of which were consecutive. The 11th #1 ("Doin What She Likes") broke "the record for the most consecutive #1 singles in the Country Airplay charts 24-year history". Throughout his career, he has received nine Grammy Award nominations, including two for Best Country Album.
In 2001, he made his debut with the single "Austin". The lead-off single from his self-titled debut album, "Austin" spent five weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The now Platinum-certified debut album also produced two more top 20 entries ("All Over Me" and "Ol Red").
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His second and third albums, 2003s The Dreamer and 2004s Blake Sheltons Barn and Grill, are gold and platinum, respectively. His fourth album, Pure BS (2007), was re-issued in 2008 with a cover of Michael Bublés pop hit "Home" as one of the bonus tracks. His fifth album, Startin Fires was released in November 2008. It was followed by the extended plays Hillbilly Bone and All About Tonight in 2010, and the albums Red River Blue in 2011, Based on a True Story... in 2013, Bringing Back the Sunshine in 2014, If Im Honest in 2016, Texoma Shore in 2017, and Fully Loaded: Gods Country in 2019.
Shelton was a judge on the televised singing competitions Nashville Star, Clash of the Choirs, and a coach on NBCs The Voice. He was on The Voice since its inception, and in nine of 22 seasons (2–4, 7, 11, 13, 18, 20, 22), a member of his team had won. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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