Blake Shelton Lands 30th Chart-Topper With ‘Texas’

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Blake Shelton is celebrating his 30th trip to the top of the charts with his song “Texas,” the lead single from his upcoming album For Recreational Use Only, out this Friday (May 9).

The song also enjoyed eight weeks at No. 1 in the U.K. and a two-week run at No. 1 in Canada. Produced by Shelton’s longtime collaborator Scott Hendricks, “Texas” was written by Johnny Clawson, Kyle Sturrock, Josh Dorr and Lalo Guzman and marks the first No. 1 single for Clawson, Sturrock and Dorr, and the second for Guzman.

“It’s been a few years since I’ve had a solo No. 1 single, and I’m super fired up about this one,” says Shelton. “I had no idea if ‘Texas’ would be a number one song, but the first time I heard it, I knew that it was something different and it sounded like nothing else I’d ever done before.

“I’ve always been a nerd for stats and things like that in country music,” he continues. “I’m always looking up artists’ stats, whether it’s Ronnie Milsap or Alabama or George Strait or Reba, and just to see how many albums they’ve sold or how many No. 1 songs they’ve had, and because of that, the idea of me having 30 number one singles, it blows my mind. I can’t even wrap my head around it because I know how long it takes to get there and how hard it is, and how blessed and lucky you have to be to get here. Thirty is a lot of anything, and to have 30 number one songs is unbelievable, and I’m really trying to take it all in. I have to thank the fans and the industry for their support throughout these years.”

Shelton joins a small country club of artists who have 30 or more No. 1 country singles, including Country Music Hall of Famers George Strait, Alabama, Kenny Chesney and Ronnie Milsap (based on R&R plus Mediabase statistics kept since 1973).

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