GARY ALLAN DEBUTS AT #3 ON THE TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS CHART WITH LIVING HARD.

ALLAN IS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR ON JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE AND LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN.

Country star Gary Allan enters The Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums chart this week at #3 with his latest album LIVING HARD on MCA Nashville. With scans of over 69,000 units Allan came in just behind Carrie Underwood and a collaborative effort from rock legend Robert Plant and Allison Krauss.

Already critically acclaimed after just one week in stores, LIVING HARD has critics buzzing. “Give Gary Allan a great song, and few singers in country music can touch him,” claims USA Today. While the Los Angeles Times boasts “Gary Allan could easily be the next John Cougar, if not the next Boss.” Reviews of the album are also running in New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and Harp. The story will continue to build as feature interviews run in Associated Press, Billboard, American Songwriter, Performing Songwriter, Country Weekly, Dallas Morning News, Arizona Daily Star and Seattle Post Intelligencer.

Tomorrow night Allan will kick off the second leg of Keith Urban’s “Love, Pain & the whole crazy World Tour” in Columbus, Ohio. In- between tour dates, Allan will fly to Los Angeles next week to make his late night television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live, airing Nov 7 on ABC immediately following the CMA Awards. Allan is also scheduled to make his debut performance on Late Show With David Letterman on December 17. The appearance will take place the night after the Urban tour winds to a close in London, Ontario.