Luke Bryan found professional success as a songwriter before delivering his debut album, I’ll Stay Me, in 2007. He followed with the acclaimed albums Doin’ My Thing, Tailgates & Tanlines, Crash My Party and Kill the Lights, the last of which produced a record-breaking six No. 1 singles on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. In late 2017, Bryan released his fourth album to top the Billboard Top 200, What Makes You Country, before debuting as a judge for a revived American Idol early the following year.