Post by BeachTenant on Aug 27, 2007 19:01:46 GMT -5
'Don't Blink' Is Billboard's Highest Chart Debut Ever!
08.27.2007
Second Chesney Single Bows at #16, Sets BDS Record
Nashville; Coming off the fastest #1 of his career and the longest chart-topper of 2007 with “Never Wanted Nothin' More,” Kenny Chesney continues the blazing pace and record-setting response to his music as “Don't Blink,” the second single from his yet unreleased Just Who I Am: Poets &Pirates, debuts on the Billboard Country Singles chart at #16 with a bullet. Since the introduction of the BDS monitored technology, this marks the highest debut by a single.
“It's crazy,” Chesney says with a laugh. “Just when I think things can't get any hotter… cause man, the response to “Never Wanted Nothin' More' was beyond imaginable… somebody calls me and says this is the highest debut in the history of the charts. You don't really know what to make of it, beyond just being happy that people are hearing the music, and responding to what they hear.”
Given the warp speed response to the Southern rock/bluegrass hybrid lead single, “Don't Blink” was shipped to radio five weeks before Just Who I Am's street date of Sept. 11. Though it's highly unusual to have two singles in advance of an album coming out, the response to Chesney's first new music in two years has been overwhelming.
“When you're making a record, you get so inside the music, it's really easy to lose perspective,” Chesney admits. “Untll you get it to the people and see if it's as true for them as it is for you. I try make music that's says about something about my life, but it's also about the idea that we're all experiencing the same things… that we're all going through the same stuff.
“When things like this happen, it really does make you feel like people are getting it. The music is hitting them in a way that is more than just there being a new single. They're reacting… and that is the best feeling for anyone who puts out songs about the way people live their life for a living can have,”
For Chesney, in the final weeks of Pollstar's Most Attended Country Tour for the first half of 2007 with over 500,000 fans played to on his Cruzan Rum sponsored Flip Flop Summer Tour, it has been a blistering pace. Not only has he played 6 NFL Stadiums, finished work on what some are calling his most progressive album to date and filmed a clip for “Don't Blink,” Chesney has been turning in some of his best shows to date.
“There was a moment onstage in Boston,” Chesney says of the connection he's feeling to the fans, “where I knew it was a huge football stadium, but it really felt like the funky little bars we play when we do Keg In The Closet. There were 60,000 people, and I swear I could feel every one. When the music is hitting people like that, man, there's just nothing like it.”
I bet BEERINBOSTON would like to see that last part
08.27.2007
Second Chesney Single Bows at #16, Sets BDS Record
Nashville; Coming off the fastest #1 of his career and the longest chart-topper of 2007 with “Never Wanted Nothin' More,” Kenny Chesney continues the blazing pace and record-setting response to his music as “Don't Blink,” the second single from his yet unreleased Just Who I Am: Poets &Pirates, debuts on the Billboard Country Singles chart at #16 with a bullet. Since the introduction of the BDS monitored technology, this marks the highest debut by a single.
“It's crazy,” Chesney says with a laugh. “Just when I think things can't get any hotter… cause man, the response to “Never Wanted Nothin' More' was beyond imaginable… somebody calls me and says this is the highest debut in the history of the charts. You don't really know what to make of it, beyond just being happy that people are hearing the music, and responding to what they hear.”
Given the warp speed response to the Southern rock/bluegrass hybrid lead single, “Don't Blink” was shipped to radio five weeks before Just Who I Am's street date of Sept. 11. Though it's highly unusual to have two singles in advance of an album coming out, the response to Chesney's first new music in two years has been overwhelming.
“When you're making a record, you get so inside the music, it's really easy to lose perspective,” Chesney admits. “Untll you get it to the people and see if it's as true for them as it is for you. I try make music that's says about something about my life, but it's also about the idea that we're all experiencing the same things… that we're all going through the same stuff.
“When things like this happen, it really does make you feel like people are getting it. The music is hitting them in a way that is more than just there being a new single. They're reacting… and that is the best feeling for anyone who puts out songs about the way people live their life for a living can have,”
For Chesney, in the final weeks of Pollstar's Most Attended Country Tour for the first half of 2007 with over 500,000 fans played to on his Cruzan Rum sponsored Flip Flop Summer Tour, it has been a blistering pace. Not only has he played 6 NFL Stadiums, finished work on what some are calling his most progressive album to date and filmed a clip for “Don't Blink,” Chesney has been turning in some of his best shows to date.
“There was a moment onstage in Boston,” Chesney says of the connection he's feeling to the fans, “where I knew it was a huge football stadium, but it really felt like the funky little bars we play when we do Keg In The Closet. There were 60,000 people, and I swear I could feel every one. When the music is hitting people like that, man, there's just nothing like it.”
I bet BEERINBOSTON would like to see that last part