“People are scrambling to figure out how they can prolong the life of an album. But as long as the shelf space continues to shrink at retail, there's just no room for them anymore... which is fine with me! I would love to be the next person in country to just release digital singles, but I think we're probably a little ways from that.”

American singer, songwriter and television personality, born 1976

Blake Tollison Shelton is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. He debuted in 2001 with the single "Austin" from his self-titled first album, and that song spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. His debut album later went platinum and also produced two more top-20 country singles. He is known for work across country music and television, with a career that began in the early 2000s.