Just over a week ago, Luke Combs shocked a UK crowd of country music fans at the C2C Festival in London when Ed Sheeran joined him on stage to perform an amazing duet of ‘Dive’. For many this seemed like the highlight of the weekend, and probably the biggest moment since C2C started in 2013.

With the popularity of country music growing fast in the UK, today US country star Luke Combs continues to defy the odds and break records as he celebrates a feat that sees his US chart topping debut album, This One’s For You, reach Gold in the UK. 

This milestone makes Luke one of only two solo country artists to have their debut album certified gold in the UK this century, and the only male solo country artist ever to have their first two albums certified.

The news hits exactly a week since Luke performed a series of jaw-dropping headline sets at the UK’s C2C Festival, where global megastar Ed Sheeran joined him onstage at London’s O2 Arena for a stunning duet of Ed's track 'Dive' - a song that Luke has often covered. Watch the video of ‘Dive’ below.

According to a recent article in the The Guardian, country music has become the fastest growing genre in the UK with a reported spike of a 50% increase from streaming services in the past two years. Some of this is a result from dedicated festivals, and new radio stations. There's no doubt that modern country artists like Luke Combs are contributing to this growing trend too!

Watch the video for his latest track ‘Doin’ This’ here.

Additional notable achievements and recognitions: 

Winner of Entertainer of The Year at the 55th Annual CMA Awards

Nominated for 2022 Grammy Awards – Best Country Solo Performance (“Forever After All”)

Winner of two awards at the 54th Annual CMA Awards: Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year (What You See Is What You Get)

Winner of two awards at the 55th ACM Awards: Album of the Year (What You See Is What You Get) and Male Artist of the Year 

Recent winner of two iHeartRadio Music Awards: Country Artist of the Year and Country Album of the Year (What You See Ain’t Always What You Get) 

Nominated for Male Video of the Year (“Lovin’ On You”) and Performance of the Year (“1, 2 Many” with Brooks & Dunn) at 2021 CMT Music Awards. 

Won three awards at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards: Top Country Artist, Top Country Male Artist and Top Country Album (What You See Is What You Get)

Recent winner of three iHeartRadio Music Awards: Country Artist of the Year, Country Album of the Year (What You See Is What You Get) and Country Song of the Year (“Beautiful Crazy”)

Only country artist to perform on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” Season 45

Inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry 

Awarded CMT Performance of the Year at the 2019 CMT Music Awards for his CMT Crossroads performance of “Beautiful Crazy” with Leon Bridges

Awarded Top Country Artist, Top Country Male Artist and Top Country Album at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards

Awarded New Male Artist of the Year at the 54th ACM Awards

Awarded Country Artist of the Year at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards

Awarded New Artist of the Year at the 52nd Annual CMA Awards

Nominated for Best New Artist at the 61st GRAMMY Awards

Recipient of a CMA Triple Play Award for writing three No. 1 songs in a 12-month period

First artist to simultaneously top all five Billboard country charts for multiple weeks: Top Country Albums, Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, Country Streaming Songs and Country Digital Song Sales (dated March 9, March 30 and April 6)

This One’s For You is certified RIAA Triple Platinum and was also the most-streamed country album of 2019. 

All five songs on his The Prequel EP charted on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Top 25—a feat not accomplished by any artist in 60 years since Johnny Cash in 1959

Author: Andrew Braithwaite

Andrew is the founder and Managing Director of Music Talkers. He's also a keen music enthusiast and plays the guitar.