Luke Bryan was joined by friends and co-writers Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood while celebrating Luke’s song “Do I” going number 1.  The song slid into the top spot the last week of the 2009 charts, just barely making the cut.  “Do I” hung at number 2 for 3 weeks….why? Well, his so-called friends song “Need You Now” had claimed the top spot.  Don’t worry…there are no hard feelings.

“I called up Luke a couple times when it didn’t feel like it was gonna happen and I said, ‘Man, I’m so sorry,’” Charles recalled. “I said, ‘As a songwriter, trust me, I want this thing to go No. 1. You know, we were lucky enough to have our No. 1. To us, whether it was two weeks, three weeks, it doesn’t really change the fact. No. 1, that was the goal, and so we would’ve rather fallen, and for some reason [‘Need You Now’] was sittin’ up there a while, and we called up the label and said, ‘You have our permission as artists to kill this thing.’ They said, ‘No, we can’t do that.’”

But Luke was prepared to throw a party…didn’t matter if it was a number 1 party or a number 2 party…

“I had to become creative,” Luke said before the soiree at Nashville’s trendy condominium tower Icon. “I knew we were throwing a party, because I was just gonna throw a party. I was gonna call it a No. 2 party and I was gonna require everybody to bring bathroom attire — bathrobes, bring some newspaper, candles, matches and some toilet paper — it was gonna be a ‘No. 2’ party.”

Luke’s current single, “Rain is a Good Thing” is in the top 40. Hopefully this one will hurry up and hit number 1 so we don’t have to wait an entire year before having another party.

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