KENNY
CHESNEY’S TOTALLY HEAVY METAL --
All 20 Albums – Live, Christmas, Greatest Hits & More – Are Certified!
All 20 Albums – Live, Christmas, Greatest Hits & More – Are Certified!
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| Kenny Chesney: Credit Allister Ann |
Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Few artists love
writing songs, finding songs and playing songs as much as Kenny
Chesney. Over the course of 20
albums, 15 of new music, the kid from East Tennessee has created some of
the 21st century’s most enduring classics. With his Trip Around
the Sun Tour heading into its final weekends, all of those songs are
now certified heavy metal.
With five multi-platinum, ten platinum and five gold titles, every album Chesney has recorded has received a precious metal certification. For the man who just broke Billboard’s record for Most No. 1s on the Country Airplay Chart, it was an achievement he didn’t see coming.
“It always amazes me how deep into the catalogue No Shoes Nation goes,” marvels the 8-time Entertainer of the Year. “People talk to me about songs from Me and You; they talk to me about Hemingway’s Whiskey, Be As You Areand even All I Want for Christmas. But you never sit down and think about the fact they must have all made those albums a part of their life. So to hear every record I’ve made is platinum – or gold – that kind of makes me pause a little.”
Starting with All I Need To Know, released June 13, 1995, Kenny Chesney built a career on making songs about the way people between the coasts actually lived. The reflection of the people who loved the music’s lives saw an unlikely kid move from gold to platinum certification with Me and You (1996) and I Will Stand (1997), then 2x platinum on Everywhere We Go (1999) and 5x platinum on Greatest Hits (2000).
That was just the warm-up. He started the 21st century blazing, as “Young” and the ACM Single of the Year “The Good Stuff” connected with a whole new urgency – No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems (2002) was certified 4x platinum. When the Sun Goes Down (2004) also went 4x platinum, and his introspective Be As You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair) went platinum, followed later in 2005 with the 3x platinum The Road and The Radio.
“We were blessed, and we were lucky,” Chesney explains. “I believed there were a lot of people out there, who were living lives a whole lot like mine. When I started writing and recording songs that reflected that, people heard their own stories – and they really responded. I think people deserve to hear songs that show them their life, and that’s always what I’ve tried to do.”
It worked. Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates (2007), Lucky Old Sun (2008), Hemingway’s Whiskey (2010), Welcome To The Fish Bowl (2012) are all platinum, while Life On A Rock (2013), The Big Revival (2014) and Cosmic Hallelujah (2016) are gold. In addition, his Greatest Hits II (2009) is platinum, as is Live in No Shoes Nation (2017) and Live: Live Those Songs Again (2006) is gold.
With five multi-platinum, ten platinum and five gold titles, every album Chesney has recorded has received a precious metal certification. For the man who just broke Billboard’s record for Most No. 1s on the Country Airplay Chart, it was an achievement he didn’t see coming.
“It always amazes me how deep into the catalogue No Shoes Nation goes,” marvels the 8-time Entertainer of the Year. “People talk to me about songs from Me and You; they talk to me about Hemingway’s Whiskey, Be As You Areand even All I Want for Christmas. But you never sit down and think about the fact they must have all made those albums a part of their life. So to hear every record I’ve made is platinum – or gold – that kind of makes me pause a little.”
Starting with All I Need To Know, released June 13, 1995, Kenny Chesney built a career on making songs about the way people between the coasts actually lived. The reflection of the people who loved the music’s lives saw an unlikely kid move from gold to platinum certification with Me and You (1996) and I Will Stand (1997), then 2x platinum on Everywhere We Go (1999) and 5x platinum on Greatest Hits (2000).
That was just the warm-up. He started the 21st century blazing, as “Young” and the ACM Single of the Year “The Good Stuff” connected with a whole new urgency – No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems (2002) was certified 4x platinum. When the Sun Goes Down (2004) also went 4x platinum, and his introspective Be As You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair) went platinum, followed later in 2005 with the 3x platinum The Road and The Radio.
“We were blessed, and we were lucky,” Chesney explains. “I believed there were a lot of people out there, who were living lives a whole lot like mine. When I started writing and recording songs that reflected that, people heard their own stories – and they really responded. I think people deserve to hear songs that show them their life, and that’s always what I’ve tried to do.”
It worked. Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates (2007), Lucky Old Sun (2008), Hemingway’s Whiskey (2010), Welcome To The Fish Bowl (2012) are all platinum, while Life On A Rock (2013), The Big Revival (2014) and Cosmic Hallelujah (2016) are gold. In addition, his Greatest Hits II (2009) is platinum, as is Live in No Shoes Nation (2017) and Live: Live Those Songs Again (2006) is gold.
GOLD SINGLE:
David Lee Murphy & Kenny
Chesney: Everything's Gonna Be Alright released April 6, 2018 August 10,
2018 Reviver Records | certified Gold August 10, 2018 0.5 Million Digital units
PLATINUM
ALBUM:
Kenny Chesney: LIVE IN
NO SHOES NATION
| released Oct 27, 2017 Blue Chair Records / Columbia Nashville | certified
Platinum July 31, 2018 1 Million units
“You want to make music that
connects, that feels honest and that catches people up in the groove, the
melody and yes, the words,” says the man whose brand-new Songs for the
Saints was the No. 1 selling all-genre album the week it came out.
“To me, all the albums I loved gave me windows into a world I wanted, or lifted
up the world I was living in. Happy, sad, mad or whatever, I felt those
songs – and hearing this news makes me feel like people felt my songs the very
same way.”
In the midst of his record-smashing tour with 19 major stadiums, the enduring nature of these songs and albums stands out. Early hits “Don’t Happen Twice” and “How Forever Feels” draw the same roar as “American Kids,” “Somewhere With You” and “Noise.” With all that passion, the heavy metal certification of every single Sony Nashville album makes complete sense.
In the midst of his record-smashing tour with 19 major stadiums, the enduring nature of these songs and albums stands out. Early hits “Don’t Happen Twice” and “How Forever Feels” draw the same roar as “American Kids,” “Somewhere With You” and “Noise.” With all that passion, the heavy metal certification of every single Sony Nashville album makes complete sense.
Kenny
Chesney Rocks 58,642; Plays 23 Hits After Rain Delay
Becomes
MetLife Stadium’s Biggest Ticket Seller in the Process
East Rutherford, N.J. -- After an evacuation and 45-minute storm delay, Kenny Chesney hit the stage at MetLife Stadium at 10:12 pm determined to make up for lost time. As “Beer In Mexico” surged through the speakers, the songwriter/superstar from East Tennessee strode on stage, fully in command of a band who’d come to play hard.
“Sometimes that waiting really fires you up,” explained the 8-time Entertainer of the Year. “You’re ready to go, and then it builds, and builds. It doesn’t hurt that the crowds in East Rutherford are such passionate, dig deep music fans. This was our sixth time. They were so loud, so in the moment, I loved listening to them sing these songs back to us.”
Playing to 58,642 members of No Shoes Nation, Chesney not only had his own best attendance number, he became the biggest ticket seller at MetLife Stadium. In six plays, the same number as Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen & the E. Street Band and Bon Jovi, Chesney’s total numbered 338,516 – 10,000 ahead of the next closest performer.
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