Toby Keith

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Toby Keith Covel born July 8 1961 best known as Toby Keith was an American country music singersongwriter record producer and actor Keith released his first four studio albums 1993s Toby Keith 1994s Boomtown 1996s Blue Moon and 1997s Dream Walkin plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of Mercury Records before exiting in 1998 These albums all earned gold or higher certification and produced several chart singles including his debut Shouldve Been a Cowboy which topped the country charts and was the most played country song of the 1990s The song has received three million spins since then according to Broadcast Music Incorporated Signed to Nashville DreamWorks in 1998 Keith released his breakthrough single How Do You Like Me Now that year This song the title track to his 1999 album of the same name was the Number One country song of 2000 and one of several charttoppers during his tenure on DreamWorks Nashville His next three albums Pull My Chain Unleashed and Shockn Yall produced three more Number Ones each and all of the albums were certified multiplatinum A second Greatest Hits package followed in 2004 and after that he released Honkytonk University When Dreamworks closed in 2005 Keith founded his own label Show Dog Nashville which became part of Show DogUniversal Music in December 2009 He has released five studio albums on this label 2006s White Trash with Money 2007s Big Dog Daddy 2008s That Dont Make Me a Bad Guy 2009s American Ride and 2010s Bullets in the Gun as well as the compilation 35 Biggest Hits He has also signed several other acts to the label including Trailer Choir Carters Chord Flynnville Train Trace Adkins Mac McAnally and Mica Roberts Keith also made his acting debut in 2005 starring in the film Broken Bridges and costarred with comedian Rodney Carrington in the 2008 film Beer for My Horses Keith has released thirteen studio albums two Christmas albums and multiple compilation albums He has also charted more than forty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts including nineteen Number One hits and sixteen additional Top Ten hits His longestlasting Number One hits are Beer for My Horses a 2003 duet with Willie Nelson and As Good as I Once Was 2005 at six weeks each Description above from the Wikipedia article Toby Keith licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia