Crash My Party
Crash My Party is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Luke Bryan. It was released on August 13, 2013, by Capitol Records Nashville.[1][2] Its first single, the title track, reached number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.[3] The album was produced by Jeff Stevens.[4][5] A deluxe edition with four bonus tracks is available digitally or by exclusive Target and Walmart CDs.[3][5]
Crash My Party
Even though the reception towards the album by music critics was mixed, the album has seen remarkably high commercial success.[6] On its first week, the album sold 528,000 copies and debuted at number one on both the Billboard 200, Bryan's first album to do so on that chart, and Top Country Albums charts.[7] It was certified Platinum by the RIAA on September 30, 2013, and became the third best-selling album of 2013.[8] By July 2014, the album had reached over 2 million in sales in the United States.[9]
Commercial performance[edit]
Crash My Party sold over 528,000 copies during its first week of release.[7] In 2013, it became the fourth best-selling album in its debut week, with the only albums to achieve better first week sales being Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience, Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Jay Z's Magna Carta... Holy Grail, and Drake's Nothing Was the Same.[7] Any album by a male country music artist has not been sold this well in nine years.[7] For the week of August 31, 2013, the album reached number one on both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums charts.[7] As a result, this became Bryan's second number one album that year.[22] The album's title track climbed the charts and reached number 2 on Hot Country Songs.[23] The next week, the album broke the record for the largest second-week percentage sales drop for a number-one debuting album of the Nielsen SoundScan era.[24]
Crash My Party became the third best-selling album of 2013 in the United States with over 1,521,000 copies sold that year.[8] In 2014, the album sold an additional 754,000 copies,[25] and it reached its two million sales mark in July 2014.[9] In May 2015, the album surpassed the total in sales of Bryan's previous album (2011's Tailgates & Tanlines) to become his best-selling album to date.[26] As of July 2017, the album has sold over 2.7 million copies in the United States.[27]