ALLENTOWN, Pa. — One of the best-selling male country music artists in history is coming to the Lehigh Valley for the first time in 13 years, it was announced Friday.
Luke Bryan, who is among the Top 6 best-selling male country music artists of all time, will perform at PPL Center on Thursday, June 25.
Openers on the tour include Drew Baldridge, Karley Scott Collins, Lanie Gardner, Randall King, Zach John King, Shane Profitt, Raelynn, Lauren Watkins, Jake Worthington and DJ Rock.
Tickets, the prices of which were not announced, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 30, at the PPL Center website, at the box office at 101 N. 7th St., Allentown, or at Bryan's website.Concert news release
Tickets, the prices of which were not immediately announced, go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 30 at the PPL Center website; at the box office at 101 N. 7th St., Allentown; or at Bryan's website.
The show will be Bryan's only Pennsylvania stop on his 32-date Word on the Street Tour, which starts May 29 in New Hampshire.
Bryan is best known for the 2011 hits "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)" and "I Don't Want This Night to End," 2012's "Drunk on You," 2013's "Crash My Party" and "That's My Kind of Night" and 2014's "Play It Again."
In a 20-year career, Bryan has had nine gold and platinum albums and 41 gold and platinum hits. He has sold 20 million albums and more than 120 million singles in the United States alone.
That puts Bryan behind only Garth Brooks, George Strait, Kenny Rogers, Tim McGraw and Johnny Cash as the best-selling male country acts ever.
Bryan recently was among just two country artists ranked in the Top 20 of Pollstar magazine's Artists of the Millennium List based on ticket sales — having sold more than 20 million concert tickets in his career.
Bryan also is among the most awarded country music stars in history. In 2012, Bryan won all nine American Country Awards for which he was nominated, including best artist, best album and best single.
Since 2018, Bryan also has been a judge on the singing competition ABC-TV show "American Idol," and will return to the show when it premieres Jan 26, according to the release.
A return act
Bryan last played the Lehigh Valley as headliner at Allentown Fair grandstand in 2013.
Bryan also was part of a fair grandstand show headlined by Jason Aldean that set a then-box office record of $858,391 and drew 14,549 people — the fair’s largest crowd in 17 years — in 2012.
Byran's debut album, "I'll Stay Me," in 2007 hit No. 2 on the Country Albums chart, sold gold, and gave him the platinum single "All My Friends Say," as well as the gold hits "We Rode in Trucks" and "Country Man."
His sophomore album, 2009's "Doin' My Thing," hit double platinum and gave him the four-times platinum hit "Do I" and triple-platinum hit "Rain is a Good Thing," his first No. 1 hit.
Bryan had his biggest hits with his 2011 album "Tailgates and Tanlines," which topped the Country Albums chart and sold five times platinum and 2013's "Crash My Party," which also topped Billboard's all-genre Albums chart.Billboard chart records
But he had his biggest hits with his 2011 album "Tailgates & Tanlines," which topped the Country Albums chart and sold five times platinum and 2013's "Crash My Party," which also topped Billboard's all-genre Albums chart.
The former disc produced four multi-platinum hits, including "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)," "I Don't Want This Night to End" and "Drunk on You," all of which were No. 1 Country hits.
The latter also had four multi-platinum hits — the title track, "Play It Again," "Drink a Beer" and "That's My Kind of Night."
He's had five more albums that hit No. 1 on the Country chart, with the last being 2020's "Born Here Live Here Die Here." His most recent release was 2024's "Mind of a Country Boy," which peaked at No. 11, and a 2025 Christmas album, "Luke Bryan Christmas."
Bryan's last Country chart-topping single was 2021's "Waves." His most recent single was "Winter Wonderland" (with Ella Langley) from last year's album.
Bryan has totaled 27 billion global streams, making him among the most-streamed artists in SoundExchange's 20-year history.
