On this day in 2004, Kenny Chesney’s When the Sun Goes Down debuted at the top of both the Billboard Top 200 and the Billboard Country Albums charts.
The album has been Certified Quadruple Platinum by the RIAA and produced three number one singles with “There Goes My Life”, “Anything but Mine”, and the title track.
On this day in 2004, Kenny Chesney started a six-week stay at #1 with “There Goes My Life”. This was the first single from his eighth studio album When the Sun Goes Down.
On this day in 2003, Kenny Chesney’s Christmas album, All I Want For Christmas Is A Real Good Tan, was Certified Gold by the RIAA. The album includes a mix of original songs and covers of traditional and country Christmas music.
Chesney’s cover of “Silent Night” features his mother and her twin sister, who are credited under the name of the Grigsby Twins.
All- Genre Best New Artist:
Kelsea Ballerini
The Chainsmokers
Chance The Rapper
Maren Morris
Anderson .Paak
Best Country Solo Performance
Love Can Go To Hell
Brandy Clark
Vice
Miranda Lambert
My Church
Maren Morris
Church Bells
Carrie Underwood
Blue Ain’t Your Color
Keith Urban
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Different For Girls
Dierks Bentley Featuring Elle King
21 Summer
Brothers Osborne
Setting The World On Fire
Kenny Chesney & P!nk
Jolene
Pentatonix Featuring Dolly Parton
Think Of You
Chris Young With Cassadee Pope
Best Country Song
Blue Ain’t Your Color
Clint Lagerberg, Hillary Lindsey & Steven Lee Olsen, songwriters (Keith Urban)
Die A Happy Man
Sean Douglas, Thomas Rhett & Joe Spargur, songwriters (Thomas Rhett)
Humble And Kind
Lori McKenna, songwriter (Tim McGraw)
My Church
busbee & Maren Morris, songwriters (Maren Morris)
Vice
Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)
Best Country Album
Big Day In A Small Town
Brandy Clark
Full Circle
Loretta Lynn
Hero
Maren Morris
A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
Sturgill Simpson
Ripcord
Keith Urban
The 59th Annual Grammy Awards will broadcast live on CBS on February 12, 2017.
Kenny Chesney has responded to the backlash he got for his expression when the camera shot to him during Beyoncé’s CMA performance last week (11/2) with the Dixie Chicks. At the show, Kenny was given the Country Music Association’s Pinnacle Award given for only the third time in the organization’s history. It was the next afternoon that Chesney was told that there was a buzz about him dissing Beyoncé and he was astounded. He said later, “I love Beyoncé… I loved her Super Bowl performance, her sense of how to make the music hit really hard – and give it drama when she’s onstage. The idea her fans were so quick to judge me, or know what I was thinking doesn’t feel like the woman I’ve always imagined Beyoncé to be – and honestly, the people who love her music, either.”
· Chesney also said, “As someone who believes in the message of Spread the Love, we try to find the best in people – and in this case, that meant really watching the musicianship on that stage, as well as a guest in our format who’d written an incredible song. I am amazed and saddened this is the response my respect for her art gets.”
Kenny Chesney’s duet single with Pink, “Setting The World On Fire,” tops the Billboard Country Airplay and Mediabase Country Airplay charts this week, giving Kenny his 29th career #1 song. Celebrating another chart-topper is exciting in its own right, but having Country Radio respond to Pink the way they have makes Kenny even more proud. He says, “I think when you bring an artist into country, you need to play to their strengths, but you also want them to feel caught up in what we do.”
· The song has already spent two weeks atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, which combines streaming, sales and airplay, and is currently making its way up the Hot AC charts as well.
On this day in 2010, Kenny Chesney captured his tenth consecutive debut at the top of the Billboard Country Albums chart with Hemingway’s Whiskey. The project sold 183,000 copies in it’s first week and also debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album produced 4 #1’s with “The Boy of Fall”, “Somewhere with You”, “Live a Little”, and “Reality”.
Hemingway’s Whiskey has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA.
Kenny Chesney will be honored with the BMI President’s Award during the 64th annual BMI Country Awards in Nashville on November 1. The BMI President’s Award is presented to songwriters who have had a profound influence on the entertainment industry. Some of the award’s past honorees include Willie Nelson, Brooks & Dunn, P!nk, Pitbull and Toni Braxton.
On this day in 1999, Kenny Chesney was on top of the Billboard chart with “You Had Me from Hello”. The song was the second single from Chesney’s album Everywhere We Go. The track has been certified Gold by the RIAA.
Kenny Chesney has revealed “Setting The World On Fire” as the next single from his new album, Cosmic Hallelujah. The previously announced collaboration with pop star Pink will hit country radio on July 28 at 5 PM ET. Earlier this month, Kenny said he delayed the release of his new album because he wanted this duet track to be on there.
· Chesney says of the new single, “You can’t conjure a song that captures that feeling of being on the brink like this does. The lyrics are a perfect way of saying it, but when you feel that melody rise, the arrangement picking up momentum – it’s bigger than you are, and all you want to do is throw yourself against the night.”
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