Lee Brice
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Lee Brice is an American country music
artist. Signed to Curb Records
' Asylum-Curb division since 2007, Brice has released four singles
to country radio, all four of which have charted on the Billboard
Hot Country Songs
charts. The fourth of these, "Love Like Crazy
," holds the record for the longest chart run achieved in the history of that chart. Brice has also co-written singles for Garth Brooks
, Tim McGraw
and Adam Gregory
.
. As a child, he learned to play the piano
in addition to singing in church and writing his own songs. He entered and won three different talent contests in high school
.
Later on, Brice attended Clemson University
on a football
scholarship. He played special teams as the long snapper, but after an arm injury, he decided to focus on a country music career instead. By 2007, he began working as a songwriter, with cuts by Jason Aldean
, Keith Gattis
and Cowboy Crush
among others. Brice, along with Billy Montana
and Kyle Jacobs
, co-wrote Garth Brooks
' 2007 single "More Than a Memory
", a song which became the first single in the history of the Billboard
Hot Country Songs
chart to debut at Number One.
Also in 2007, Brice signed to Curb Records
' Asylum-Curb division, releasing his debut single "She Ain't Right," which peaked at #29 on the same chart. It was followed by "Happy Endings" and "Upper Middle Class White Trash" at #32 and #44, respectively. All three songs were to have been included on an album entitled Picture of Me, which was never released. Brice also continued to write songs for others, including Canadian singer Adam Gregory
's singles "Crazy Days" and "What It Takes
." He also appeared on Cledus T. Judd
's 2007 album Boogity, Boogity - A Tribute to the Comedic Genius of Ray Stevens
, singing duet vocals on a rendition of the Albert E. Brumley
gospel song "Turn Your Radio On."
In August 2009, Brice charted with his fourth single, "Love Like Crazy
," which is the first release from his debut album of the same name. Brice also co-wrote labelmate Tim McGraw
's 2010 single "Still
." "Love Like Crazy" reached Top Ten on the country music charts in July 2010 during its forty-sixth week on the chart, setting a record for the slowest climb into the Top Ten in that chart's history. In September 2010, the song charted for a fifty-sixth week on this chart, making it the longest-charting song in the chart's history. It broke a record set by Eddy Arnold
, whose 1948 single "Bouquet of Roses
" spent fifty-four weeks on the same chart. The album's second single "Beautiful Every Time" was released to radio on October 25, 2010.
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
artist. Signed to Curb Records
Curb Records
Curb Records is a record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963...
' Asylum-Curb division since 2007, Brice has released four singles
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
to country radio, all four of which have charted on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
charts. The fourth of these, "Love Like Crazy
Love Like Crazy (song)
"Love Like Crazy" is the title of a song written by Tim James and Doug Johnson, and recorded by American country music artist Lee Brice. It is the fourth single of his career, and the first single from his studio album, also titled Love Like Crazy...
," holds the record for the longest chart run achieved in the history of that chart. Brice has also co-written singles for Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...
, Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw
Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the...
and Adam Gregory
Adam Gregory
Adam Gregory is a country music singer and actor. Active since 2000, he has recorded three studio albums, including 2000's The Way I'm Made and 2002's Workin' On It, both on Epic Records, as well as a self-titled album in 2006 on Mensa Records...
.
Biography
Lee Brice was born June 10, 1979 in Sumter, South CarolinaSumter, South Carolina
-Demographics:, there were 59,180 people, 34,717 households, and 4,049 families living in the city. The population density was 4,469.5 people per square mile . There were 416,032 housing units at an average density of 603.0 per square mile...
. As a child, he learned to play the piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
in addition to singing in church and writing his own songs. He entered and won three different talent contests in high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
.
Later on, Brice attended Clemson University
Clemson University
Clemson University is an American public, coeducational, land-grant, sea-grant, research university located in Clemson, South Carolina, United States....
on a football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
scholarship. He played special teams as the long snapper, but after an arm injury, he decided to focus on a country music career instead. By 2007, he began working as a songwriter, with cuts by Jason Aldean
Jason Aldean
Jason Aldine Williams is an American country music singer, known professionally as Jason Aldean. Since 2005, Aldean has recorded for Broken Bow Records, an independent record label for which he has released four albums and twelve singles...
, Keith Gattis
Keith Gattis
Keith Gattis is an American country music artist. Gattis has released two studio albums. He also charted one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart: "Little Drops of My Heart", which peaked at #53 in 1996...
and Cowboy Crush
Cowboy Crush
Cowboy Crush is an American country music band signed to Curb Records' Asylum/Curb division. The group is composed of Trenna Barnes , Debbie Johnson , Becky Priest , and Renaé Truex . Until 2006, Darla Perlozzi was also a member of the group...
among others. Brice, along with Billy Montana
Billy Montana
Billy Montana is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1987 and 1995, Montana released one studio album and charted six singles on Billboards Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
and Kyle Jacobs
Kyle Jacobs
Kyle Jacobs is an American country music songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, pianist as well as a staff writer for Curb Music since 2003. Jacobs writes music on piano and guitar....
, co-wrote Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...
' 2007 single "More Than a Memory
More Than a Memory
"More Than a Memory" is a song written by Lee Brice, Billy Montana and Kyle Jacobs. It was recorded by country music singer Garth Brooks and released in 2007 as his 51st single. It is the first single from his 2007 compilation The Ultimate Hits. On the U.S...
", a song which became the first single in the history of the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
chart to debut at Number One.
Also in 2007, Brice signed to Curb Records
Curb Records
Curb Records is a record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963...
' Asylum-Curb division, releasing his debut single "She Ain't Right," which peaked at #29 on the same chart. It was followed by "Happy Endings" and "Upper Middle Class White Trash" at #32 and #44, respectively. All three songs were to have been included on an album entitled Picture of Me, which was never released. Brice also continued to write songs for others, including Canadian singer Adam Gregory
Adam Gregory
Adam Gregory is a country music singer and actor. Active since 2000, he has recorded three studio albums, including 2000's The Way I'm Made and 2002's Workin' On It, both on Epic Records, as well as a self-titled album in 2006 on Mensa Records...
's singles "Crazy Days" and "What It Takes
What It Takes (Adam Gregory song)
"What It Takes" is a song recorded by Canadian country music artist Adam Gregory. It is the second single from Crazy Days, his first album to be released in the United States. The song has reached Top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in the United States.-Chart positions:...
." He also appeared on Cledus T. Judd
Cledus T. Judd
Barry Poole is an American country music artist who records under the name Cledus T. Judd. Known primarily for his parodies of popular country music songs, he has been called the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music, and his albums are usually an equal mix of original comedy songs and parodies...
's 2007 album Boogity, Boogity - A Tribute to the Comedic Genius of Ray Stevens
Boogity, Boogity - A Tribute to the Comedic Genius of Ray Stevens
Boogity, Boogity – A Tribute to the Comic Genius of Ray Stevens is a tribute album recorded by country music singer/parodist Cledus T. Judd. It contains Judd's renditions of twelve songs previously recorded by country music artist Ray Stevens, largely with duet partners. Stevens himself is featured...
, singing duet vocals on a rendition of the Albert E. Brumley
Albert E. Brumley
Albert Edward Brumley was a shape note gospel music composer and publisher.Brumley was born near Spiro, Oklahoma on October 29, 1905. Pre-Dustbowl Oklahoma was primarily made up of sparse agricultural communities; Brumley's family was no different. He spent much of his early life chopping and...
gospel song "Turn Your Radio On."
In August 2009, Brice charted with his fourth single, "Love Like Crazy
Love Like Crazy (song)
"Love Like Crazy" is the title of a song written by Tim James and Doug Johnson, and recorded by American country music artist Lee Brice. It is the fourth single of his career, and the first single from his studio album, also titled Love Like Crazy...
," which is the first release from his debut album of the same name. Brice also co-wrote labelmate Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw
Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the...
's 2010 single "Still
Still (Tim McGraw song)
"Still" is the title of a song written by Lee Brice, Kyle Jacobs and Joe Leathers, and recorded and co-produced by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in February 2010 as the third single from his tenth studio album, Southern Voice....
." "Love Like Crazy" reached Top Ten on the country music charts in July 2010 during its forty-sixth week on the chart, setting a record for the slowest climb into the Top Ten in that chart's history. In September 2010, the song charted for a fifty-sixth week on this chart, making it the longest-charting song in the chart's history. It broke a record set by Eddy Arnold
Eddy Arnold
Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...
, whose 1948 single "Bouquet of Roses
Bouquet of Roses (song)
"Bouquet of Roses" is a 1948 song written by Steve Nelson and Bob Hilliard . It was originally recorded by Eddy Arnold and his Tennesseee Plow Boys and his Guitar in Chicago on May 18, 1947. It was released by RCA Victor Records as catalogue number 20-2806 and by EMI on the His Master's Voice...
" spent fifty-four weeks on the same chart. The album's second single "Beautiful Every Time" was released to radio on October 25, 2010.
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
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| US Country |
US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
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| Love Like Crazy Love Like Crazy Love Like Crazy is the major-label debut studio album by American country music artist Lee Brice. It was released on June 8, 2010, via Curb Records. Prior to the album's release, Brice charted three singles: "She Ain't Right," "Happy Endings" and "Upper Middle Class White Trash." The album's title... |
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9 | 44 |
Extended plays
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
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|---|---|---|---|
| US Country |
US Heat Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical... |
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| Love Like Crazy (EP) |
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56 | 46 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales threshold) |
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| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
CAN Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007... |
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| 2007 | "Overrated" | — | — | — | Non-album song | ||||
| "She Ain't Right" | 29 | — | — | Picture of Me (unreleased) | |||||
| "Happy Endings" | 32 | — | — | ||||||
| 2008 | "Upper Middle Class White Trash" | 44 | — | — | |||||
| 2009 | "Love Like Crazy Love Like Crazy (song) "Love Like Crazy" is the title of a song written by Tim James and Doug Johnson, and recorded by American country music artist Lee Brice. It is the fourth single of his career, and the first single from his studio album, also titled Love Like Crazy... " |
3 | 45 | 77 |
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Love Like Crazy | |||
| 2010 | "Beautiful Every Time" | 30 | — | — | |||||
| 2011 | "A Woman Like You"A | 35 | TBD | ||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
- A Current single.
Music videos
| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | "She Ain't Right" | Eric Welch |
| 2010 | "Love Like Crazy" | |
| 2011 | "Beautiful Every Time" | |
| "A Woman Like You" |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Association | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Song of the Year — "Love Like Crazy" | |
| Single Record of the Year — "Love Like Crazy" | |||
| CMT Music Awards CMT Music Awards The CMT Music Awards is a fan-voted awards show for country music videos and television performances. The awards ceremony is held every year in Nashville, Tennessee, and broadcast live on CMT. Voting takes place on CMT's website, CMT.com.-History:... |
USA Weekend USA Weekend USA Weekend is a national publication distributed through more than 800+ newspapers in the United States. It reaches 47 million readers in 22.6 million households every weekend. Awarded for its journalism and design, USA WEEKEND focuses on social issues, entertainment, health, food and travel.... Breakthrough Video of the Year — "Love Like Crazy" |
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