CMA host Luke Bryan recalls moment he knew he had made it: 'Don't have to... work at my dad's peanut mill'

CMA Awards host Luke Bryan told Fox News Digital about the moment he knew he had made it big in country music. He's since celebrated 30 No. 1 hits.

"For my first four, five, six, singles, I had always had pretty good first weeks as an artist, but when ‘Country Girl (Shake It For Me)' came out, I think I had 45 [additions] that week," Bryan said. "After all the work to get to that point, I remember sitting on the floor, my wife and I, and we were just crying about it. It was a big day, and it felt like radio and everything was starting to work." Lori Bashian is an entertainment production assistant for Fox News Digital. 

He continued, "Then from 'Country Girl (Shake It For Me),’ we went to ‘I Don’t Want this Night to End,' and that went crazy, and I'd always told myself, ‘if you could put three big, big songs in a row together, things would really start happening, and then we did ’Drunk on You,' that was…so that little era right there was kind of like the moment. All I ever wanted was to know that I could do this for the rest of my life."