Toby Keith

Toby Keith is one of the most successful country artists, and artists in general, of all time. He has sold over 40 million albums in the US alone in his career. At radio he's had some staggering numbers. Toby has had 32 #1 songs and has had a #1 every year for 20 straight years amassing 50 million spins between 2000 and 2010 and has racked up 90 million performances. His successes don't stop there as he has won; 11 ACM Awards, 2 ACA Awards, 3 AMA Awards, 4 Billboard Awards, a People's Choice Award, been inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, received the NSAI Songwriter of the Decade Award and was the top earning country musician for 2013 and 2014. In addition to all of that and his acting roles, he also held the #1 Comedy Album for 11 weeks for Bus Songs. Toby Keith's Greatest Hits: The Show Dog Years features 4 new songs, including "Don't Let The Old Man In" from the movie The Mule directed by and featuring Clint Eastwood.

The familiar maxim of the triple threat – singer, songwriter, musician – doesn't begin to cover it for Toby Keith, one of the modern era's most complete self-directed hit makers. And his most recent years are a remarkably accurate representation of his entire career. In 2021, he was bestowed the National Medal of Arts, inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and honoured with the Academy of Country Music's Merle Haggard Spirit Award. In October, he will release a new album, Peso In My Pocket, that led with the single “Old School” which debuted at the highest entrance of his career on Billboard’s airplay chart.

Greatest Hits 2 is the title of a greatest hits album released in 2004 by American country music singer-songwriter Toby Keith. The second greatest hits album of his career, it was released by DreamWorks Records Nashville. The album was certified triple platinum on January 11, 2006. The compilation is composed of nine tracks from his first four DreamWorks albums: 1999's How Do You Like Me Now?!, 2001's Pull My Chain and 2002's Unleashed, as well as five new recordings. Three of these new recordings are studio tracks, of which two ("Stays in Mexico" and "Mockingbird") were released as singles, reaching No. 3 and No. 27, respectively, on the Hot Country Songs charts. "Mockingbird", a cover of the Inez and Charlie Foxx hit, features Keith's daughter Krystal as a duet partner. Two newly recorded live renditions are also included on this album: one of Keith's debut single "Should've Been a Cowboy" (originally from his self-titled debut album), and another of his 1995 single "You Ain't Much Fun" (originally from Boomtown).

2017 release from the country music artist. The familiar maxim of the triple threat - singer, songwriter, musician - doesn't begin to cover it for Toby Keith, one of the modern era's most complete self-directed hit makers. And Keith's most recent several months are a remarkably accurate representation of his entire career. He wrote, produced and released "Wacky Tobaccy," whose accompanying music video features Willie Nelson and has quickly become a surprise runaway viral hit, amassing millions of views immediately after it's posting.

Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood and more gather for a once-in-a-lifetime concert celebrating the life and legacy of global superstar Toby Keith.

When Toby Keith releases his new album, 35 MPH Town, on Oct. 9, it will be nearly a year since the country star first revealed his plans for the project. In the 12 months since his announcement, fans’ anticipation has built so much so that The Boot’s readers have voted Keith’s new record Album of the Month for October 2015. Earning nearly 41 percent of the votes in The Boot’s Album of the Month poll, 35 MPH Town beat out hot new upcoming releases from, among others, Carrie Underwood, Josh Thompson and Blake Shelton. Clearly, Keith’s fans can’t wait to get their hands on his new disc.

The 1993 debut album that started the incredibly successful career of country superstar Toby Keith will be released in a 25th anniversary edition on 30 November by Mercury Nashville/UMe. It’s been renamed Should’ve Been A Cowboy in honour of Keith’s trademark debut hit from the set. ‘Should’ve Been A Cowboy’ was Keith’s first single and first No. 1 country hit, and went on to be the most played country song of the 1990s, turning platinum in the process. It marked the arrival of a notable, self-contained talent: Keith wrote eight of the ten tracks on the record solo. “The singer rode in from Oklahoma armed with some of the strongest material that the city had seen in quite some time,” wrote Billboard.