Post by BeachTenant on Aug 1, 2007 10:04:26 GMT -5
Kenny Chesney's Big Tour…
Pollstar Deems Flip-Flop Summer Country's Biggest Tour This Year
7.31.07
Nashville: As July heads into August and the numbers for the first half of the year get tallied up, touring industry trade Pollstar has released their numbers for the first half of 2007. And once again, Pollstar finds Kenny Chesney, the three-time and reigning Academy of Country Music and two-time and current Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year as their Top Country Tour.
“I've said it before, and for me, it's really true,” Chesney offered when given the news, “We get out there to rock the fans. It's all about how good of a show can we give'em - and I think what's amazing is how much they give us! Every summer, I think this is the year we can't get any more energy, any more sound, any more craziness out of the fans… and then they show us!”
The only country act to play NFL football stadiums over the last three years - this year included sold-out stops in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Seattle and Boston, as well as an upcoming show in Detroit - Chesney's Flip Flop Summer Tour has already played to over a half-a-million people and grossed in excess of 33 million dollars by June 1. With a mid-spring start, the Cruzan Rum sponsored tour is among the Top 5 tours in any genre.
With “Never Wanted Nothing More” hitting #1 in seven weeks - making it Chesney's fastest #1 record - and sticking for a second consecutive week, anticipation for Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, which arrives Sept. 11, is high. Drawing on regular writers David Lee Murphy, Bill Anderson, Brett James, Scooter Carusoe and Troy Jones, as well as Dwight Yoakam, Don Schlitz, Joe Don Rooney and Jon Randall, this is an album that pushes the Luttrell, Tennessean's signature good-times'n'introspection mix farther in each direction.
“When we put 'Never Wanted Nothing More' in the set,” Chesney says of the velocity of his tour and his first new music in two years, “it was moving so fast, that even though it was a Top 5, people had only been hearing it a few weeks. But what was crazy was the idea that even though it was basically something they'd never heard, the crowds were reacting to it like it was one of their favorite songs we'd ever cut… you know, it was already a big hit like 'Young,' or 'Tractor,' or 'When The Sun Goes Down'.”
Hitting Charlotte, North Carolina, then Raleigh for two straight nights, Chesney is bringing the summer alive wherever he goes. Laughing he marvels, “I had a girl in the meet & greet in Boston tell me it's not summer until we get there… and that's a pretty good feeling. All I've ever wanted to do was kick back with my friends, listen to some great music and have fun. That I get to do it with 20- or 50,000 people is pretty cool. Never thought I'd throw a party that big, but why not?”
Pollstar Deems Flip-Flop Summer Country's Biggest Tour This Year
7.31.07
Nashville: As July heads into August and the numbers for the first half of the year get tallied up, touring industry trade Pollstar has released their numbers for the first half of 2007. And once again, Pollstar finds Kenny Chesney, the three-time and reigning Academy of Country Music and two-time and current Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year as their Top Country Tour.
“I've said it before, and for me, it's really true,” Chesney offered when given the news, “We get out there to rock the fans. It's all about how good of a show can we give'em - and I think what's amazing is how much they give us! Every summer, I think this is the year we can't get any more energy, any more sound, any more craziness out of the fans… and then they show us!”
The only country act to play NFL football stadiums over the last three years - this year included sold-out stops in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Seattle and Boston, as well as an upcoming show in Detroit - Chesney's Flip Flop Summer Tour has already played to over a half-a-million people and grossed in excess of 33 million dollars by June 1. With a mid-spring start, the Cruzan Rum sponsored tour is among the Top 5 tours in any genre.
With “Never Wanted Nothing More” hitting #1 in seven weeks - making it Chesney's fastest #1 record - and sticking for a second consecutive week, anticipation for Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, which arrives Sept. 11, is high. Drawing on regular writers David Lee Murphy, Bill Anderson, Brett James, Scooter Carusoe and Troy Jones, as well as Dwight Yoakam, Don Schlitz, Joe Don Rooney and Jon Randall, this is an album that pushes the Luttrell, Tennessean's signature good-times'n'introspection mix farther in each direction.
“When we put 'Never Wanted Nothing More' in the set,” Chesney says of the velocity of his tour and his first new music in two years, “it was moving so fast, that even though it was a Top 5, people had only been hearing it a few weeks. But what was crazy was the idea that even though it was basically something they'd never heard, the crowds were reacting to it like it was one of their favorite songs we'd ever cut… you know, it was already a big hit like 'Young,' or 'Tractor,' or 'When The Sun Goes Down'.”
Hitting Charlotte, North Carolina, then Raleigh for two straight nights, Chesney is bringing the summer alive wherever he goes. Laughing he marvels, “I had a girl in the meet & greet in Boston tell me it's not summer until we get there… and that's a pretty good feeling. All I've ever wanted to do was kick back with my friends, listen to some great music and have fun. That I get to do it with 20- or 50,000 people is pretty cool. Never thought I'd throw a party that big, but why not?”