Luke bryan biography 2012 election
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2012 United States House of Representatives elections
House elections for the 113th U.S. Congress
For related races, see 2012 United States elections.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2012. It coincided with the reelection of PresidentBarack Obama. Elections were held for all 435 seats representing the 50 U.S. states and also for the delegates from the District of Columbia and five major U.S. territories. The winners of this election cycle served in the 113th United States Congress. This was the first congressional election using districts drawn up based on the 2010 United States census.
Although Democratic candidates received a nationwide plurality of more than 1.4 million votes (1.1%) in the aggregated vote totals from all House elections,[3] the Republican Party won a 33-seat advantage in seats, thus retaining its House majority by 17 seats. Democrats picked up 27 previously Republican-held seats, but most of th
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Luke Bryan enters Jay Z territory with ‘Crash My Party’
Luke Bryan made the invite, and fans responded. The country star’s “Crash My Party” landed at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts this week and caused quite the celebration in doing so.
“Crash My Party” sold 528,000 copies for the week ending Aug. 18, according to the Nielsen SoundScan stats that constitute the Billboard charts. That’s the largest debut week for a male country artist in almost nine years, Billboard reports.
One has to go all the way back to 2004 to Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying,” which bowed with 766,000 copies sold, to find a better country entry from an artist not named Taylor Swift. The latter, of course, sold 1.208 million copies of her “Red” during its first week of release late last year.
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“Crash My Party” gives Bryan the third-largest debut week of the year -- behind albums from Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z -- and his second No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Timberl
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Luke Bryan Hits Jackpot at American Country Awards
Luke Bryan was the top winner at the third annual American Country Music Awards Monday night (Dec. 10) at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Bryan took home nine awards, including Male Artist, Single and Music Video of the Year for “I Don’t Want This Night to End,” Album for “Tailgates and Tanlines” and Artist of the Year.
“Rarely am inom rendered speechless, but inom truly am,” Bryan said backstage. “I don’t know how to formulate a series of words that can truly tell how appreciative inom am to the fans for voting and making a night like this possible… inom always take fan voted awards and cherish them. They are dear to my heart.”
Bryan said he asked his manager to cancel his 11 a.m. flight the next morning because he planned to celebrate. “We’re going to make the most of the night. I always celebrate ganska sufficiently,” he smiled.
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