September 13, 2012, 2:20 pm Kenny Chesney just wrapped his 23 stadium-date Brothers of the Sun Tour with Tim McGraw but he won’t be resting any time soon. His fall schedule is packed with a new single, a milestone award, CMA nominations, a new app and more to be announced soon. Last week, Kenny released “El Cerrito Place” as his [...] Read More
August 7, 2012, 12:23 pm Big Machine Records will release A Very Special Christmas 25th Anniversary collection on October 16, reports MusicRow. Proceeds from album sales will benefit the Special Olympics. Artists on the collection include Rascal Flatts, Vince Gill, The Band Perry, Amy Grant, Jason Mraz, Christina Aguilera, Francesca Battistelli, Michael Bublé, Cheap Trick, Dave Matthews, One Republic, Train and [...] Read More
November 4, 2010, 11:30 am Kenny Chesney didn’t do a major tour in 2010, but it was just a one-summer vacation. He’s mapping out another big concert schedule for 2011 and it includes nine stadium dates that pair him with Zac Brown Band, according to the Associated Press. The first of the announced dates is March 19 when they play Tampa. Read More
October 12, 2010, 10:29 am Kenny Chesney’s new CD, Hemingway’s Whiskey, got off to a great start — it’s at No. 1 on both the Billboard Country Albums chart and the all-genre Billboard 200. The top of the country list is a place Kenn’s very familiar with. It marks the tenth time he has had a No. 1 country album. But it’s also a bit of a different market than it once was. Kenny sold 183,000 copies of Hemingway in the album’s first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and those numbers are good enough to make it the fourth best-selling album of the entire third quarter, even though it was available for only the final week of that period. Still, there were other times in his career that Kenny sold more than half a million in his debut week. Read More
October 4, 2010, 12:03 pm Concerts, politics and awards were the order of the day. Country music kicked off the final quarter of 2010 with some pretty special moments this past weekend, including iconic live dates by Carrie Underwood and Willie Nelson, a public vote involving Sammy Kershaw and an NFL appearance by Country Music Hall of Fame member Charley Pride. Country’s big moments included: Read More
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