Luke Combs Scores Major Diamond Hardware
Luke Combs was surprised by his Sony Music Nashville record label with five new plaques commemorating historic new certifications at Combs’ 5-year anniversary appearance at the Grand Ole Opry this week.
The plaques included two diamond certifications for “When It Rains It Pours” and “Hurricane.” This marks Combs as the first artist to have three Diamond country singles certified by the RIAA (joining “Beautiful Crazy,” which was Diamond certified last year).
Additionally, Combs’ 2022 album Gettin’ Old is certified Platinum, while 2019 What You See Is What You Get is certified 5X Platinum. To cap off the night, Combs’s Grammy-nominated version of the Tracy Chapman hit “Fast Car” was also certified 5X Platinum.
Luke posed with his new plaques backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, where fans and friends congratulated the two-time Entertainer of the Year.
The country superstar just wrapped his 2024 stadium tour to a sold-out crowd in cities for multiple nights each weekend.
Up next for Combs, he is expected to open his long-awaited Nashville bar “Hurricane” later this year. The bar sits on Second Avenue in Nashville, where the famous Wildhorse Saloon used to be.
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Combs talked with CMT recently about rapper-turned country singer Post Malone and confirmed what everyone suspected: Post Malone is a fun-loving, sweet guy. It actually shows when you watch him perform by how excited and happy he is.
Luke told CMT about his new duet buddy, “He’s so nice. He’s just an unbelievable guy. You can’t help but be happy around him, to be honest. He’s just in such a great mood all the time, at least when I’m around him. I’m sure he has his moments like everybody else. But, he’s just welcoming to anyone and everyone.”
Combs said writing songs with Malone is different. He offered, “Those songwriting sessions can be really, really fun, but I think sometimes here in Nashville, we can be so structured and rigid, like, ‘We’re writing at eleven o’clock, and we’re leaving by this time.’ It becomes this nine-to-five kind of job sometimes.”
Not with Posty. Luke explained that with Malone, they were starting at eight PM “at night,” and then a lot of times, “I’d leave at three or four in the morning.” He said at the end of the night, they had written four or five songs, and “we did that five or six times at least.”
Combs has two duets with Malone on his new country album, out on August 16th.
