{"id":15824,"date":"2019-06-09T23:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T05:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1807829"},"modified":"2019-06-09T23:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T05:06:43","slug":"lee-brice-can-look-back-on-believe-it-or-not-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/lee-brice-can-look-back-on-believe-it-or-not-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Brice Can Look Back on \u201cBelieve It Or Not\u201d Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:355603?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">13h ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Since releasing his first single in 2007, songwriter and recording artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/lee-brice\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Brice<\/a> has carved out a career that\u2019s been peppered with \u201cbelieve it or not\u201d moments \u2014 you know, those situations that sound either too good or too weird to be true but really are.<\/p>\n<p>Brice, who on Monday (June 10) confronts a 40-candle birthday cake, has four studio albums and 14 singles to his credit. Four of those singles went No. 1, and seven others made it into the Top 10. His latest was last year\u2019s \u201cRumor,\u201d which reached No. 6.<\/p>\n<p>As a songwriter, Brice has had material recorded by several major artists, among them Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Charles Esten (of the TV series <em>Nashville<\/em>) and Eli Young Band \u2014 plus one more big name that leads us to Brice\u2019s first dazzler:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"listicle-container\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">Garth Brooks\u2019 \u201cMore Than a Memory\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p><em>Believe it or not<\/em>\u2026 In 2007, the Garth Brooks single, \u201cMore Than a Memory,\u201d which Brice co-wrote, debuted at No. 1 on <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Hot Country Songs chart. It was the first time for that to happen in the history of the charts, since it usually takes several weeks for even a hot song to scramble all the way to the top. But, wait, there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cLove Like Crazy\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p><em>Believe it or not<\/em>\u2026 Brice\u2019s 2009 single, \u201cLove Like Crazy,\u201d stayed on the charts for a record-setting 56 weeks \u2014 that\u2019s four weeks longer than a year, y\u2019 all \u2014 before it finally peaked at No. 3. It broke the previous longevity record of 54 continuous weeks set in 1948-49 by Eddy Arnold with \u201cBouquet of Roses.\u201d Now on to the final oddity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">\u201cI Drive Your Truck\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-container\">\n<p><em>Believe it or not<\/em>\u2026In 2012, Brice scored a No. 1 with a truck song that didn\u2019t involve beer-drinking, partying with friends or making out. That song, of course, was \u201cI Drive Your Truck,\u201d a story told in the voice of a youngster whose older brother is killed in a war and who feels closest to him while roaring around the countryside in the memory-cluttered pickup he\u2019s left behind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to Brice\u2019s homepage, he\u2019ll be roaring around the countryside on tour all this summer, performing such of his hits as \u201cA Woman Like You,\u201d \u201cHard to Love, \u201cI Don\u2019t Dance\u201d and the aforesaid, \u201cI Drive Your Truck.\u201d And, who knows, maybe he\u2019ll generate yet another believe it or not eye-opener to spring on his fans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1807829\/lee-brice-can-look-back-on-believe-it-or-not-milestones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 13h ago Since releasing his first single in 2007, songwriter and recording artist Lee Brice has carved out a career that\u2019s been peppered with \u201cbelieve it or not\u201d moments \u2014 you know, those situations that sound either too good or too weird to be true but really are. Brice, who on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 03:46:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}