Trivia / Blake Shelton

• Career Resurrection: After a spotty discography, "Home" seemed to get his career back on track.
• Chart Displacement: "Ol' Red" only got to #14 early in his career, but is still one of his most famous songs.
• Colbert Bump: Not for one of his own songs, but his endorsement on Twitter of Craig Morgan's "The Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost" caused a surge in downloads and airplay for the song, getting Morgan his first chart hit in several years and leading to him re-signing with his former label.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: For some reason, "Sure Be Cool If You Did" has been erroneously credited as being co-written by Nicolle Galyon (a contestant on The Voice) instead of her husband, Rodney Clawson, who is a prominent Nashville songwriter.
• Creator Couple: With Miranda Lambert from 2010 to 2015, and Gwen Stefani since 2020.
• Follow-Up Failure: This dogged his career early on: "Austin" was followed by the #18 flop "All Over Me", while the #1 "The Baby" was followed by the dud "Heavy Liftin'" which stalled out at #32.
• Network to the Rescue: Giant Records closed while "Austin" was climbing. Parent company Warner (Bros.) Records quickly stepped in to prop up the single and release the album.
• One-Hit Wonder: Clearly not Blake himself, but many of his collaborators have been:
  • "Boys 'Round Here" is credited to "featuring Pistol Annies and Friends". Pistol Annies was a group consisting of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley, who recorded two Hitless Hit Albums. The "And Friends" are the songwriters (Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, and Craig Wiseman), the producer (Scott Hendricks), and The Voice contestant RaeLynn. While Rhett had two hits in The '90s, RaeLynn later had a hit with "God Made Girls", and Lambert obviously has many hits of her own, everyone else credited on the song has not.
  • "My Eyes" gave Advertised Extra credit to backing vocalist Gwen Sebastian, who was also a competitor on The Voice (although she had a few independent releases beforehand).
  • Monroe herself later sang duet vocals on "Lonely Tonight", resulting in her only major chart credit to date.
• What Could Have Been: His debut single could have been "I Wanna Talk About Me", later a big hit for Toby Keith, but the label thought the song was too risky for a newcomer.

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