Kenny Chesney Tour Dates Include Charleston, SC
There’s little doubt that Kenny Chesney has made his mark as a country music superstar. After his debut album, “In My Wildest Dreams”, was released by the independent Capricorn Records in 1994, Kenny has gone on to release thirteen more smash albums.
Eleven of Kenny’s first thirteen albums were not only proof of his staying power, but were commercially successful, garnering him certified gold from the RIAA. Even though his first debut only sold 10,00 albums from the independent Capricorn Records label, two singles from the album, “The Tin Man” and “Whatever It Takes” brushed the Hot Country Singles & Tracks Billboard charts. Unfortunately, within the year, Capricorn decided to no longer publish country music and Kenny had to move on.
Today, Kenny Chesney has released more than thirty top ten country hits, and that includes seventeen that made it all the way to the number one spot. With four consecutive AMC Entertainer of the Year Awards under his belt and six CMA awards, there’s no doubt he’s a country music powerhouse. In 2007, his summer tour was the top grossing country music tour of the year.
Seventeen of Kenny’s songs have hit number one, and his 2007 summer tour was the highest grossing country music tour of the year. One hit record is amazing; two is incredible. Seventeen is downright unbelievable.
Kenny Chesney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1968, a region near the Great Smoky Mountains and nestled deep in the heart of country music. He taught himself to play guitar and has had a lifelong love of music, playing bluegrass in college at nearby East Tennessee State University.
During his college years at East Tennessee State, he played bluegrass and recorded a record to sell at his gigs in 1989.
Kenny’s success has proven again and again that he’s truly a country music star, with smash successes in tour ticket sales and a huge list of number one singles that any musician would be proud of.
The 2009 tour includes a show on September 12 in Charleston, South Carolina, at the North Charleston Coliseum. This tour is one of the mega tours of the country music summer season with tour dates all across the United States and Canada.
This year’s Kenny Chesney tour has been dubbed the Sun City Carnival Tour, in support of his most recent album, Lucky Old Sun, which was released in the fall of 2008. The album had already had a number one single by the time it debuted, titled “Everybody Wants to go to Heaven”.
Despite the slow start to his career, he’s made up for it with incredible success during the first two decades of releasing hit country music. He is truly one of country’s modern music superstars, with two greatest hits albums already available.
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