<p><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&;keywords=Billy%20Currington&;tag=drunkenhill05-20&;index=music&;linkCode=ur2&;camp=1789&;creative=9325">Billy Currington</a></strong><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=drunkenhill05-20&;l=ur2&;o=1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important" border="0" height="1" width="1" /> has a hot new single in &#8220;<strong>Tangled Up</strong>&#8221; and he&#8217;s just earned his first <strong>platinum album</strong>. At a recent party in <strong>Nashville </strong>celebrating the <strong>platinum status</strong> of <strong><em>Doin&#8217; Something Right</em></strong>, he told <strong><em>Country Weekly</em></strong> that success snuck up on him.<img src="http://img.gactv.com/GAC/2006/05/18/BillyCurrington2_sm_d.jpg" title="Billy Currington - Courtesyof GATV.com" alt="Billy Currington - Courtesyof GATV.com" align="right" height="177" hspace="6" vspace="6" width="140" />&#8220;I didn&#8217;t see it coming,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It was out of the blue, because we had the <strong>first album</strong>, and there were a lot of songs on there that didn&#8217;t make the radio, so it didn&#8217;t allow the record to get out there and sell and do what it needed to do. So at 200,000, it crashed, so it was like a heartbreak back then.&#8221;</p>
<p>Billy says things got better when he released his next album <em><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDoin-Somethin-Right-Billy-Currington%2Fdp%2FB000AXWHQC%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dmusic%26qid%3D1200586711%26sr%3D1-1&;tag=drunkenhill05-20&;linkCode=ur2&;camp=1789&;creative=9325">Doin&#8217; Something Right</a></strong><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=drunkenhill05-20&;l=ur2&;o=1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></em> and the title song went gold. &#8220;I think, &#8216;Wow! We&#8217;re on our way to platinum,&#8217; &#8221; he says. &#8220;Then all of a sudden, sales just dropped for some strange reason, and I was told we had to move on to the next album. And that just crushed me. It broke my heart&#8230;when you&#8217;re a songwriter and you dream this big dream for years and years and it doesn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;</p>
<p>Billy told his label, &#8216;Just put another song out there and I know it&#8217;ll go platinum.&#8217; And they were so nice. My <strong>record label</strong> was so good to me. They were like, &#8220;All right, Billy. You want to put the <strong>turnip greens</strong> song out there, let’s put it out there.&#8221; And they did and they got behind it. And we’re sitting at platinum. It’s such a cool experience to see it happen like that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now Billy has learned to deal with the ups and downs of the business. &#8220;It always feels like you&#8217;ve just gotta keep working,&#8221; he says, &#8220;which is good for me, &#8217;cause if I ain&#8217;t working it&#8217;s like my grandma said, &#8216;Idle time is the devil&#8217;s workshop&#8217; and I&#8217;ll get in trouble. So, I&#8217;m just glad to be working. I&#8217;m glad to have a <strong>record deal</strong>. It&#8217;s very hard to come by.&#8221;</p>
<p>~Courtesy of <a href="http://www.gactv.com" title="GACTV">GACTV </a>Country Music Photo Gallery</p>