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• BIRTHDAY: June 18, 1976
• BIGGEST POP SINGLE: "Honey Bee" (2011)
• BIGGEST LP: Red River Blue (2011)
• GRAMMY AWARDS: 0

• Blake Shelton was born June 18, 1976 in Oklahoma. Shelton began songwriting and singing in his teens and move to Nashville when he was 17 to pursue a career in country singing.

• Shelton was signed to Giant Records - the record label shut down after the release of Shelton's debut single "Austin" and Shelton was transitioned to Warner Bros. Record.

• July 31: Shelton released his debut LP Blake Shelton.

• August 11: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 5 weeks and Country Singles Sales chart for 8 weeks with "Austin."

• January 9: Blake was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Country New Artist.

• July 31: Blake Shelton was certified gold.

• February 4: Shelton released The Dreamer.
• February 22: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 3 weeks with "The Baby."

• October 26: Shelton released Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill.

• December 25: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 4 weeks with "Some Beach."

• May 31: Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill was certified gold.

• September 15: The Dreamer was certified gold.

• May 1: Shelton released Pure BS.

• July 19: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 2 weeks with "Home."

• November 18: Shelton released Startin' Fires.

• February 7: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 2 weeks with "She Wouldn't Be Gone."

• March 5: Pure BS was certified gold.

• March 2: Shelton released the EP Hillbilly Bone.
• March 27: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 1 week with help from Trace Adkins with "Hillbilly Bone."

• August 10: Shelton released the EP All About Tonight.
• August 28: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 3 weeks with "All About Tonight."
• August 28: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Albums chart for 1 week with All About Tonight.

• November 9: Shelton released the hits collection Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton.

# 57 Singles Artist of the Year

• February 13: Shelton was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals ("Hillbilly Bone" with Trace Adkins).

• March 5: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 1 week with "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking."

• April 11: Shelton began being seen as a judge on the NBC singing competition TV series The Voice.
• April 23: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Digital Songs chart for 2 weeks with "Honey Bee."

• May 11: Miranda married country artist Miranda Lambert.
• May 14: Shelton hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Honey Bee."

• June 25: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 4 weeks with "Honey Bee."

• July 12: Shelton released Red River Blue.
• July 30: Shelton topped the Billboard 200 LP chart for 1 week and Country Albums chart for 2 weeks with Red River Blue. The LP sold over 116,000 copies its first week of release in the US.

• October 1: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Digital Songs chart for 4 weeks with "God Gave Me You."
• October 29: Shelton hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "God Gave Me You."
• October 29: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 3 weeks with "God Gave Me You."

• November 1: Shelton could be heard on the Miranda Lambert LP Four The Record on the track "Better In The Long Run."
• November 7: Red River Blue was certified gold.
• November 20: Shelton won an American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.

• December 2: Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton was certified gold.

• February 12: Shelton was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Album (Red River Blue) and Best Country Solo Performance ("Honey Bee").

• March 5: Blake could be heard on the Lionel Richie LP Tuskegee on the re-recorded duet of "You Are."

• April 28: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs for 2 weeks with "Drink On It."

• September 1: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs for 2 weeks with "Over."

• October 2: Shelton released the holiday LP Cheers, It's Christmas.

• November 9: Cheers, It's Christmas was certified gold.

# 69 Singles Artist of the Year

• January 26: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Digital Songs chart for 6 weeks with "Sure Be Cool If You Did."
• January 30: Red River Blue was certified platinum.

• February 10: Shelton was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance ("Over").

• March 9: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 5 weeks with "Sure Be Cool If You Did."
• March 26: Shelton released Based On A True Story... The LP sold over 200,000 copies its first week of release in the US (and peaked on the Billboard LP chart at #3).
• March 30: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart for 2 weeks with "Sure Be Cool If You Did."

• April 13: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Albums chart for 5 weeks with Based On A True Story...

• June 1: Shelton hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with help from Pistol Annies & Friends with "Boys 'Round Here."
• June 29: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with help from Pistol Annies & Friends with "Boys 'Round Here."

• September 30: Based On A True Story... was certified platinum.

• November 13: Shelton could be heard on the Christina Aguilera LP Lotus on the track "Just A Fool."
• November 16: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart for 4 weeks with "Mine Would Be You."
• November 24: Shelton was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.

• January 26: Shelton was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Album (Based On A True Story...) and Best Country Solo Performance ("Mine Would Be You").

• February 6: Blake Shelton was certified platinum.

• March 25: Blake could be heard on the Shakira LP Shakira on the track "Medicine."

• April 12: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart for 2 weeks with "Doin' What She Likes."

• July 12: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart for 1 week with help from Gwen Sebastian with "My Eyes."

• September 16: Shelton could be heard on the Barbra Streisand LP Partners on the track "I'd Want It To Be With You."
• September 30: Shelton released Bringing Back The Sunshine.

• October 18: Shelton topped the Billboard 200 LP chart, Digital Albums chart, and Country Albums chart with Bringing Back The Sunshine. The LP sold over 101,000 copies its first week of release in the US.

• November 22: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Neon Light."
• November 23: Shelton was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.

• January 7: Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton was certified platinum and Bringing Back The Sunshine was certified gold.
• January 24: Shelton hosted and performed on Saturday Night Live.

• March 14: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with help from Ashley Monroe with "Lonely Tonight."

• July 11: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Sangria."

• October 23: Blake released Reloaded: 20 #1's.

• December 26: Blake topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Gonna."

• February 15: Shelton was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance ("Lonely Tonight" with Ashley Monroe).

• May 20: Blake released If I'm Honest.

• June 11: Blake topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Came Here To Forget."

• August 23: If I'm Honest was certified gold.

• October 7: Red River Blue and Based On A True Story... were certified 2x platinum and Bringing Back The Sunshine and Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill were certified platinum.

• November 20: Blake won an American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.

• January 28: Blake topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "A Guy With A Girl."

• July 15: Blake topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Every Time I Hear That Song."

• November 3: Blake released Texoma Shore.
• November 25: Blake topped the Billboard Country Albums chart with Texoma Shore.

• December 30: Blake topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "I'll Name The Dogs."
• December 31: Blake topped the Billboard 2017 Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Country Airplay Artist.

• April 13: Blake topped the Billboard Digital Song Sales chart and Country Digital Songs Sales chart with "God's Country."

• May 25: Shelton hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "God's Country."
• May 25: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Songs chart with "God's Country."

• July 13: Shelton topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "God's Country."

• November 24: Shelton was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Country Song ("God's Country").

• Blake will release Fully Loaded: God's Country on December 13th.

• Blake was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance ("God's Country").

iTunes Amazon.mp3	Blake Shelton Released: July 31, 2001 US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 45 Tracks: "Every Time I Look At You" - "All Over Me" - "She Doesn't Know She's Got It" - "Austin" - "Ol' Red" - "I Thought There Was Time" - "Same Old Song" - "That's What I Call Home" - "Problems At Home" - "If I Was Your Man"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	The Dreamer Released: February 4, 2003 US: Gold Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 8 Tracks: "Heavy Liftin'" - "The Baby" - "Asphalt Cowboy" - "In My Heaven" - "The Dreamer" - "My Neck Of The Woods" - "Underneath The Same Moon" - "Georgia In A Jug" - "Playboys Of The Southwestern World" - "Someday"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill Released: October 26, 2004 US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 20 Tracks: "Some Beach" - "Nobody But Me" - "Good Old Boy, Bad Old Boyfriend" - "Love Gets In The Way" - "Goodbye Time" - "Cotton Pickin' Time" - "What's On My Mind" - "When Somebody Knows You That Well" - "On A Good Day" - "The Bartender" - "I Drink"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Pure BS Released: May 1, 2007 US: Gold Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 8 Rolling Stone: Tracks: "This Can't Be Good" - "Don't Make Me" - "The More I Drink" - "I Don't Care" - "She Don't Love Me" - "Back There Again" - "It Ain't Easy Bein' Me" - "What I Wouldn't Give" - "I Have Been Lonely" - "She Can't Get That" - "The Last Country Song" (with John Anderson & George Jones) Deluxe Edition also includes: "Chances" - "I Can't Walk Away" - "Home"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Startin' Fires Released: November 18, 2008 Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 34 Rolling Stone: Tracks: "Green" - "Good At Startin' Fires" - "She Wouldn't Be Gone" - "I'll Just Hold On" - "100 Miles" - "Never Lovin' You" - "Country Song" - "Home Sweet Home" - "This Is Gonna Take All Night" - "Here I Am" - "I Don't Care" - "Bare Skin Rug" (with Miranda Lambert)
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Hillbilly Bone (EP) Released: March 2, 2010 Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 3 Tracks: "Hillbilly Bone" (with Trace Adkins) - "Kiss My Country Ass" - "You'll Always Be Beautiful" - "Can't Afford To Love You" - "Delilah" - "Almost Alright"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	All About Tonight (EP) Released: August 10, 2010 Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 6 Billboard # 1: Country Albums Entertainment Weekly: B Tracks: "All About Tonight" - "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking" - "That Thing We Do" - "Draggin' The River" (with Miranda Lambert) - "Suffocating" - "Got A Little Country"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton Released: November 9, 2010 US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 18 Tracks: "Austin" - "Ol' Red" - "The Baby" - "Playboys Of The Southwestern World" - "Some Beach" - "Goodbye Time" - "Nobody But Me" - "Don't Make Me" - "The More I Drink" - "Home" - "She Wouldn't Be Gone" - "Hillbilly Bone" (with Trace Adkins) - "Kiss My Country Ass" - "All About Tonight" - "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Red River Blue Released: July 12, 2011 US: 2x Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 1 (for 1 week) Billboard # 1: Country Albums Grammy Nominee: Best Country Album Rolling Stone: Tracks: "Honey Bee" - "Ready To Roll" - "God Gave Me You" - "Get Some" - "Drink On It" - "Good Ol' Boys" - "I'm Sorry" (with Martina McBride) - "Sunny In Seattle" - "Over" - "Hey" - "Red River Blue" (with Miranda Lambert)
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Cheers, It's Christmas Released: October 2, 2012 US: Gold Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 8 Tracks: "Jingle Bell Rock" (with Miranda Lambert) - "White Christmas" - "Oklahoma Christmas" (with Reba McEntire) - "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" - "There's A New Kid In Town" (with Kelly Clarkson) - "Santa's Got A Choo Choo Train" - "Home" (with Michael Buble) - "Winter Wonderland" - "The Christmas Song" - "Blue Christmas" (with Pistol Annies) - "I'll Be Home For Christmas" - "Silver Bells" (featuring Xenia) - "Time For Me To Come Home" (with Dorothy Shackleford) - "The Very Best Time Of The Year"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Based On A True Story... Released: March 26, 2013 US: 2x Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 3 Billboard # 1: Country Albums Grammy Nominee: Best Country Album Entertainment Weekly: B- Tracks: "Boys 'Round Here" (with Pistol Annies & Friends) - "Sure Be Cool If You Did" - "Do You Remember" - "Small Town Big Time" - "Country On The Radio" - "My Eyes" (with Gwen Sebastian) - "Doin' What She Likes" - "I Still Got A Finger" - "Mine Would Be You" - "Lay Low" - "Ten Times Crazier" - "Granddaddy's Gun"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Bringing Back The Sunshine Released: September 30, 2014 US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 1 Billboard # 1: Country Albums, Digital Albums Tracks: "Bringing Back The Sunshine" - "Neon Light" - "Lonely Tonight" (with Ashley Monroe) - "Gonna" - "A Girl" - "Sangria" - "Buzzin'" (with RaeLynn) - "Just South Of Heaven" - "I Need My Girl" - "Good Country Song" - "Anyone Else" - "Just Gettin' Started"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Reloaded: 20 #1's Released: October 23, 2015 Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 5 Tracks: "Sangria" - "Lonely Together" (with Ashley Monroe) - "Neon Light" - "My Eyes" (with Gwen Stefani) - "Doin' What She Likes" - "Mine Would Be You" - "Boys 'Round Here" (with Pistol Annies) - "Sure Be Cool If You Did" - "Over" - "Drink On It" - "God Gave Me You" - "Honey Bee" - "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking" - "All About Tonight" - "Hillbilly Bone" (with Trace Adkins) - "She Wouldn't Be Gone" - "Home" - "Some Beach" - "The Baby" - "Austin" - "Gonna"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	If I'm Honest Released: May 20, 2016 US: Gold Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 3 Tracks: "Straight Outta Cold Beer" - "She's Got A Way With Words" - "Bet You Still Think About Me" - "Every Time I Hear That Song" - "Came Here To Forget" - "Every Goodbye" - "It Ain't Easy" - "A Guy With A Girl" - "Go Ahead And Break My Heart" (featuring Gwen Stefani) - "Friends" - "One Night Girl" - "Doing It To Country Songs" (featuring The Oak Ridge Boys) - "Green" - "You Can't Make This Up" - "Savior's Shadow"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Texoma Shore Released: November 3, 2017 Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 4 Billboard # 1: Country Albums Tracks: "I'll Name The Dogs" - "At The House" - "Beside You Babe" - "Why Me" - "Money" - "Turnin' Me On" - "The Wave" - "Got The T-Shirt" - "Hangover Due" - "When The Wine Wears Off" - "I Lived It"

1	Honey Bee from the LP Red River Blue ARC chart run: 40 - 38 - off Year-End Chart Position: # 104 RIAA Certification: 2x Platinum Billboard # 1: Country Songs, Country Digital Songs Grammy Nominee: Best Country Solo Performance	38	2	2011	iTunes Amazon.mp3
2	God Gave Me You from the LP Red River Blue ARC chart run: 39 - 36 - off Year-End Chart Position: # 116 RIAA Certification: 2x Platinum Billboard # 1: Country Songs, Country Digital Songs	36	2	2011	iTunes Amazon.mp3
3	God's Country from the LP Fully Loaded: God's Country ARC chart run: 40 - 40 - 40 - 40 - 39 - 40 - off RIAA Certification: Platinum Billboard # 1: Country Songs, Contry Airplay, Digital Song Sales, Country Digital Songs Sales Grammy Nominee: Best Country Solo Performance	39	6	2019	iTunes Amazon.mp3
4	Boys 'Round Here [Blake Shelton featuring Pistol Annies & Friends] from the LP Based On A True Story... ARC chart run: 39 - 38 - off Year-End Chart Position: # 131 RIAA Certification: 2x Platinum Billboard # 1: Country Airplay	38	2	2013	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Austin from the LP Blake Shelton RIAA Certification: Gold Billboard # 1: Country Songs, Country Singles Sales	**	**	2001	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	All Over Me from the LP Blake Shelton	**	**	2001	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Ol' Red from the LP Blake Shelton RIAA Certification: Gold	**	**	2002	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	The Baby from the LP The Dreamer Billboard # 1: Country Songs	**	**	2002	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Heavy Liftin' from the LP The Dreamer	**	**	2003	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Playboys Of The Southwestern World from the LP The Dreamer	**	**	2003	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	When Somebody Knows You That Well from the LP Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill	**	**	2004	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Some Beach from the LP Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill RIAA Certification: Gold Billboard # 1: Country Songs	**	**	2004	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Goodbye Time from the LP Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill	**	**	2005	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Nobody But Me from the LP Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill	**	**	2005	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Don't Make Me from the LP Pure BS	**	**	2006	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	The More I Drink from the LP Pure BS	**	**	2007	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Home from the LP Pure BS RIAA Certification: Gold Billboard # 1: Country Songs	**	**	2008	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	She Wouldn't Be Gone from the LP Startin' Fires RIAA Certification: Gold Billboard # 1: Country Songs	**	**	2008	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	I'll Just Hold On from the LP Startin' Fires	**	**	2009	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Hillbilly Bone [Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins] from the EP Hillbilly Bone RIAA Certification: Gold Billboard # 1: Country Songs Grammy Nominee: Best Country Collaboration with Vocals	**	**	2009	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	All About Tonight from the EP All About Tonight Billboard # 1: Country Songs	**	**	2010	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Who Are You When I'm Not Looking from the EP All About Tonight RIAA Certification: Platinum Billboard # 1: Country Songs	**	**	2010	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Drink On It from the LP Red River Blue RIAA Certification: Gold Billboard # 1: Country Songs	**	**	2012	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Over from the LP Red River Blue RIAA Certification: Gold Billboard # 1: Country Songs Grammy Nominee: Best Country Solo Performance	**	**	2012	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Sure Be Cool If You Did from the LP Based On A True Story... RIAA Certification: Platinum Billboard # 1: Country Songs, Country Airplay, Country Digital Songs	**	**	2013	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Mine Would Be You from the LP Based On A True Story... Billboard # 1: Country Airplay Grammy Nominee: Best Country Solo Performance	**	**	2013	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Doin' What She Likes from the LP Based On A True Story... Billboard # 1: Country Airplay	**	**	2014	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	My Eyes [Blake Shelton featuring Gwen Sebastian] from the LP Based On A True Story... Billboard # 1: Country Airplay	**	**	2014	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Neon Light from the LP Bringing Back The Sunshine RIAA Certification: Gold	**	**	2014	iTunes Amazon.mp3
	Sangria from the LP Bringing Back The Sunshine Billboard # 1: Country Airplay RIAA Certification: Platinum	**	**	2015	iTunes Amazon.mp3
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