GARY ALLAN TOUGH ALL OVER IS CERTIFIED GOLD BY THE RIAA!

Nashville, TN --- Dec 20, 2005 --- After two months available in stores, Country Superstar Gary Allan’s TOUGH ALL OVER is GOLD. The album made its debut on the Billboard Country album chart at #1 selling nearly 100,000 copies in the first week alone.

It has been embraced by both fans of country music and music lovers outside of the genre. In a recent interview, Sir Elton John said “I’m the first person to go out and by the new Gary Allan cd, because I love Gary Allan…it’s an incredible cd.”

Pop and rock music critics alike have fallen in-love with Gary Allan as well. TOUGH ALL OVER was named #28 by Blender on their TOP 50 Albums Of The Year List (no small feat for a country artist). The first single “Best I Ever Had” was called “an anthem” in the Los Angeles Times and was named #4 by SPIN on their TOP 10 songs you want to download list. The album received 4 stars in Rolling Stone, 4 out of 4 stars in USA Today and was called “elegant and dazzling” by the New York Times.

The album also received an A in Entertainment Weekly in a review that read “The music of California honkey-tonker Allan has always set itself apart with a dark, dreamy vibe and and edge of hypnotic danger. Tough is a bold album of soul-piercing beauty.”

Bold it is, without a doubt. Allan took big risks when writing and recording this album. Enlightening and heartbreaking, Tough strips away the barrier between the artist and listener, allowing his fans and critics to be a fly on the wall. Bearing witness to the raw and real emotions he’s struggling with while grieving.

Allan is a gifted singer and an intoxicating entertainer. He’s poured his heart into TOUGH ALL OVER, and his fans and critics are thanking him for it.