History Trivia / BlakeShelton

* CreatorCouple: With Music/MirandaLambert from 2010 to 2015.

* FollowUpFailure: This dogged his career early on: "Austin" was followed by the #18 flop "All Over Me", while the #1 "Heavy Liftin'" was followed by the dud "Heavy Liftin'" which stalled out at #32.

* CareerResurrection: "Home" seems to be an example, as it launched a massive streak of #1 hits following a rather inconsistent track record.

* FollowUpFailure: This dogged his career early on: "Austin" was followed by the #18 flop "All Over Me", while the followup to "The Baby", "Heavy Liftin'", stalled out at #32. (Judging from its chart run, it seems to have been pulled prematurely for "Playboys of the Southwestern World", which fared little better at #24.)
* [[NetworkToTheRescue Label to the Rescue]]: Giant Records closed while "Austin" was climbing. Parent company Creator/WarnerBrosRecords quickly stepped in to prop up the single and release the album.

** "Boys 'Round Here" is credited to "featuring Pistol Annies and Friends". Pistol Annies was a group consisting of Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley, who recorded two {{Hitless Hit Album}}s. The "And Friends" are the songwriters (Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, and Craig Wiseman), the producer (Scott Hendricks), and ''Series/TheVoice'' contestant [=RaeLynn=]. While Rhett [[TwoHitWonder had two hits]] in TheNineties, [=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.

** Monroe herself later sang duet vocals on "Lonely Tonight".

** "Boys 'Round Here" is credited to "featuring Pistol Annies and Friends". Pistol Annies was a group consisting of Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley, who recorded two {{Hitless Hit Album}}s. The "And Friends" are the songwriters (Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, and Craig Wiseman), the producer (Scott Hendricks), and ''Series/TheVoice'' contestant [=RaeLynn=]. While Rhett [[TwoHitWonder had two hits in TheNineties]], [=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.

** "Boys 'Round Here" is credited to "featuring Pistol Annies and Friends". Pistol Annies was a group consisting of Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley, who recorded two {{Hitless Hit Album}}s. The "And Friends" are the songwriters (Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, and Craig Wiseman), the producer (Scott Hendricks), and ''Series/TheVoice'' contestant [=RaeLynn=]. While Rhett had two hits in TheNineties and [=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 AdvertisedExtra credit to backing vocalist Gwen Sebastian, who was also a competitor on ''The Voice'' (although she had a few independent releases beforehand) and

* CareerResurrection: "Home" seems to be an example, as it launched an uninterrupted streak of #1 hits following a rather inconsistent track record.

* [[NetworkToTheRescue Label to the Rescue]]: Giant Records closed while "Austin" was climbing. Parent company Warner Bros. quickly stepped in to prop up the single and release the album.

* CreatorCouple: With Music/MirandaLambert.

* LongRunner: His current streak of No. 1 songs in as many single releases, taking both ''Billboard'''s traditional Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts into consideration; the current streak, which began in February 2010 with "Hillbilly Bone" (a duet with Trace Adkins), reached 16 in December 2015 with "Gonna." Shelton is just the fifth artist in the nearly 72-year history of the country chart to have 15 or more No. 1 songs in a row -- discounting non-No. 1 duets, B-sides or Christmas singles, per chart historian Joel Whitburn's rules -- and has made parity with Music/BuckOwens (15 straight from 1963-1967), Sonny James (16 straight from 1967-1971), Music/{{Alabama}} (21 straight from 1980-1987) and Earl Thomas Conley (16 straight from 1983-1989).
** None of country music's other greats -- Eddy Arnold, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, Charley Pride, Ronnie Milsap, Reba [=McEntire=], The Judds, George Strait, Brad Paisley and countless others -- had more than 11 in a row, with several of the aforementioned having no more than five in a row.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: His debut single could have been "I Wanna Talk About Me", later a big hit for Music/TobyKeith, but the label thought the song was too risky for a newcomer.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Blake himself is an example as he pops up randomly in the CadyGroves video "This Little Girl" as a towtruck driver.

* CareerResurrection: "Hillbilly Bone" seems to be an example, as it launched an uninterrupted streak of #1 hits following a rather inconsistent track record.

* LongRunner: His current streak of No. 1 songs in as many single releases, taking both ''Billboard'''s traditional Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts into consideration; the current streak, which began in February 2010 with "Hillbilly Bone" (a duet with Trace Adkins), reached 15 in July 2015 with "Sangria." With that, Shelton becomes just the fifth artist in the nearly 72-year history of the country chart to have 15 or more No. 1 songs in a row -- discounting non-No. 1 duets, B-sides or Christmas singles, per chart historian Joel Whitburn's rules -- joining parity with Music/BuckOwens (15 straight from 1963-1967), Sonny James (16 straight from 1967-1971), Music/{{Alabama}} (21 straight from 1980-1987) and Earl Thomas Conley (16 straight from 1983-1989).

* LongRunner: His current streak of No. 1 songs in as many single releases, taking both ''Billboard'''s traditional Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts into consideration; the current streak, which began in February 2010 with "Hillbilly Bone" (a duet with Trace Adkins), reached 15 in July 2015 with "Sangria." With that, Shelton becomes just the fifth artist in the nearly 72-year history of the country chart to have 15 or more No. 1 songs in a row -- discounting non-No. 1 duets, B-sides or Christmas singles, per chart historian Joel Whitburn's rules -- joining parity with Music/Buck Owens (15 straight from 1963-1967), Sonny James (16 straight from 1967-1971), Music/{{Alabama}} (21 straight from 1980-1987) and Earl Thomas Conley (16 straight from 1983-1989).