Kenny ChesneyKenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney (born March 26, 1968) is an American country music artist. Since 1993, Chesney has recorded 13 albums, 11 of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than 30 Top Ten singles on the U.S. Billboard Billboard (magazine) Hot Country Songs charts, 17 of which reached Number One. In addition, Chesney has received six ACM Academy of Country Music (including four consecutive Entertainer of the Year Awards), as well as six CMA Country Music Association awards. Chesney is also one of the most popular touring acts in country music, regularly selling out the venues at which he performs; his 2007 Flip-Flop Summer Tour was the highest-grossing country road trip of 2007. He was awarded his 4th consecutive ACM Entertainer of the Year award on May 18, 2008. Chesney studied in East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he joined Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity and was member of the ETSU Bluegrass Program. Chesney played tunes at local places around Johnson City like Chucky's Trading Post (a small Mexican restaurant), Quarterbacks BBQ, and Rafters. He recorded his first album in 1989 at Classic Recording Studio in Bristol Bristol, Virginia , Virginia. One thousand copies were produced and Chesney sold them at his busking gigs, using the money from album sales to help buy a new guitar. After graduation, he headed to Nashville, where he performed at several local clubs. After making the rounds of the music publishers in Nashville, Chesney signed to contract in 1992 with BMI and Opryland Music Group. In My Wildest Dreams Chesney's first album, In My Wildest Dreams, was released on the independent Capricorn Records label in 1994. The album's lead-off singles, "The Tin Man" and "Whatever It Takes", both reached the lower regions of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. The album sold approximately 10,000 copies before Capricorn Records closed its country music division that year. All I Need to Know After Capricorn's closure, Chesney signed to BNA Records, which released his album All I Need to Know All I Need to Know (album) in 1995. The album produced three hit singles: "Fall in Love" and the title track (both of which reached Top Ten), and "Grandpa Told Me So", which peaked at #23. On November 7, 2007 Chesney was named the CMA Entertainer of the Year for the third time in four years. Late 2000s to present Chesney, along with Tim McGraw, contributed to a version of Tracy Lawrence's single "Find Out Who Your Friends Are", which can be found on Lawrence's album For the Love. The official single version, featuring only Lawrence's vocals, was released in August 2006, but did not reach the Top 40 on the country charts until January 2007, when For the Love was released. After the album's release, the version with McGraw and Chesney began receiving significant airplay, helping to boost the single to Number One on the country charts. The song became Lawrence's first Number One single in eleven years, as well as the second-slowest climbing Number One single in the history of the Billboard music charts. Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates On September 11, 2007, Kenny released the album Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates. The album represented a move by Chesney to a more gulf and western gulf and western (music genre) sound with a number of "breezy, steel-drum island songs." However, there was some controversy surrounding the release of this album, as Kanye West's album Graduation, as well as 50 Cent's album Curtis, were released on the same day. Kanye West and 50 Cent were in the midst of a competitive sales war, with 50 Cent claiming he'd end his solo rap career if West sold more albums than he did (remarks he later retracted as terms with his contract conflicted with the promise). Kenny Chesney, however, decided he'd give country music a place in the competition, claiming country artists were just as popular as rap Rap music artists. Chesney came in third place in number of record sales. The album's lead-off single, "Never Wanted Nothing More", became Chesney's 12th Number One on the Billboard country charts. On the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for the week ending September 15, 2007, Chesney's single "Don't Blink" debuted at #16, setting a new record for the highest debut on that chart since the inception of SoundScan electronic tabulation in 1990. This record was broken one week later by Garth Brooks' song "More Than a Memory", which debuted at Number One on the same chart, making it the first song ever to do so. The third single off the Just Who I Am album, "Shiftwork", a duet with George Strait peaked at #2 on the Billboard Billboard (magazine) country chart. The 4th single, "Better as a Memory", became his 14th number-one single on the Billboard Billboard (magazine) Hot Country Songs chart for the chart week of June 28, 2008. Chesney also co-wrote Rascal Flatts' 2007 single along with Djuan Edgerton, "Take Me There Take Me There (Rascal Flatts song) ", which served as the lead-off single to their album Still Feels Good. Chesney's most recent charity work includes working with the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Chesney embarked on his 2008 tour titled "The Poets and Pirates Tour" on April 26. The tour focused on stadium venues and started at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina. During the introduction for his set, Kenny's boot was caught between a hydraulic lift and the stage surface for over 30 seconds, causing a severe hematoma from the ankle down, with most of the damage centering in his toes. The injury did not cause him to postpone any shows, saying "He (the doctor) told me it's going to hurt – though nothing could hurt worse than Saturday, I don't think – and they can give me something to deaden the pain when I get out there. I also have to have a doctor standing by should something give, but I'm going to tape it up, and I'm going to get out there." On May 19, 2008, just a day after the 43rd Annual ACM Awards and winning ACM Entertainer of the Year, Chesney criticized the lack of choice in the producers' making the award fan-voted. "The entertainer of the year trophy is supposed to represent heart and passion and an amazing amount of sacrifice, commitment and focus," he said. "That's the way Garth won it four times, that's the way I won it, that's the way (George) Strait won it, Reba (McEntire), Alabama all those years. That's what it's supposed to represent." Lucky Old Sun On July 24, 2008 Kenny Chesney announced that he will be releasing a new single off an upcoming album entitled Lucky Old Sun. The song is titled "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" and for the chart week of August 16, 2008, it has debuted at #22 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The album was released on October 14, 2008. "Everybody"Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" became a Number One hit. It was followed by a cover of Mac McAnally's 1990 single "Down the Road Down the Road (song) ". It was announced on December 2, 2008 that Chesney would perform at Gillette Stadium again in 2009, marking the fifth year in a row that Chesney will have played at the Foxboro, Massachusetts football field. Chesney's tour this year will be entitled the Sun City Carnival Tour and will feature various venues both small and large to continue to keep his ticket prices down. Greatest Hits II The Number One hit "Out Last Night" is the lead single from his Greatest Hits II Greatest Hits II (Kenny Chesney album) album, released May 19 via BNA Records. The album's second single was a duet with Dave Matthews titled "I'm Alive I'm Alive (Willie Nelson song) ." In May 2010, Greatest Hits II will be released with two new tracks. One of these, "Ain't Back Yet," was sent to radio in February.On May 9, 2005 Kenny Chesney married actress Renee Zellweger in a ceremony on the island of St. John Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands . They had met in January at a tsunami relief benefit concert. On September 15 of that same year, after only four months of marriage, they announced their plans for an annulment. Zellweger cited fraud as the reason in the related papers. After media scrutiny of her use of the word "fraud", she qualified the use of the term, stating it was "simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character". The annulment was finalized in late December 2005. Afterward, Chesney was dating Amy Colley, a 24 year old former Miss Tennessee USA. The two were introduced by a mutual friend, but they broke up on April 21, 2009.Chesney has won the Billboard Touring Award for Top Package Tour four consecutive years between 2005 and 2008. * Greatest Hits Tour 2001 * No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems Tour 2002 * Margaritas N' Senorita's Tour 2003 * Guitars, Tiki Bars & A Whole Lotta Love Tour 2004 * Somewhere In The Sun Tour 2005 * The Road & The Radio Tour 2006 * Flip-Flop Summer Tour 2007 * The Poets & Pirates Tour 2008 * Sun City Carnival Tour 2009 Studio albums *In My Wildest Dreams (1994) *All I Need to Know All I Need to Know (album) (1995) *Me and You Me and You (Kenny Chesney album) (1996) *I Will Stand (1997) *Everywhere We Go (1999) *No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems (2002) *When the Sun Goes Down When the Sun Goes Down (album) (2004) *Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair) (2005) *The Road and the Radio (2005) *Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates (2007) *Lucky Old Sun (2008) Compilation albums *Greatest Hits Greatest Hits (Kenny Chesney album) (2000) *All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan (2003) *Live: Live Those Songs Again (2006) *Super Hits Super Hits (Kenny Chesney album) (2008) *Greatest Hits II Greatest Hits II (Kenny Chesney album) (2009)* 'Wins' * 1997 ACM New Male Vocalist of the Year * 2002 CMT Male Video of the Year: Young * 2002 CMT Video of the Year: Young * 2003 ACM Single Record of the Year: The Good Stuff * 2003 ACM Top Male Vocalist of the Year * 2004 AMA Artist of the Year * 2004 CMA Entertainer of the Year * 2004 CMA Album of the Year: When The Sun Goes Down * 2004 CMT Hottest Video of the Year: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems * 2004 CMT Male Video of the Year: There Goes My Life * 2005 ACM Entertainer of the Year * 2005 ACM Triple Crown Winner * 2005 CMT Male Video of the Year: I Go Back * 2006 CMA Entertainer of the Year * 2006 ACM Entertainer of the Year * 2006 CMT Male Video of the Year: Who You Be Today * 2006 BMA Best Male Country Artist * 2006 BMA Best Country Artist * 2007 CMT Male Video of the Year: You Save Me * 2007 PCA Favorite Male Singer * 2007 ACM Entertainer of the Year * 2007 CMA Musical Event of the Year: Find Out Who Your Friends Are * 2007 CMA Entertainer of the Year * 2008 ACM Entertainer of the Year * 2008 ACM Vocal Event of the Year: Find Out Who Your Friends Are * 2008 FACM Best Duo of the Year: Every Other Weekend * 2008 CMA Entertainer of the Year | * 'Nominations' * 1999 CMA Music Video of the Year: How Forever Feels * 1999 CMA Horizon Award * 2000 ACM Top Male Vocalist * 2001 ACM Top Male Vocalist * 2002 ACM Top Male Vocalist * 2002 CMA Album of the Year: No Shows, No Shirt, No Problems * 2002 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year * 2003 CMT Hottest Video of the Year: The Good Stuff * 2003 CMT Male Video of the Year: The Good Stuff * 2003 CMT Video of the Year: The Good Stuff * 2003 ACM Song of the Year: A lot of Things Different * 2003 ACM Album of the Year: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems * 2003 ACM Entertainer of the Year * 2003 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year * 2003 CMA Entertainer of the Year * 2004 CMT Video of the Year: There Goes My Life * 2004 ACM Song of the Year: There Goes My Life * 2004 ACM Top Male Vocalist * 2004 ACM Entertainer of the Year * 2004 CMA Musical Event of the Year: Hey Good Lookin * 2004 CMA Musical Event of the Year: When the Sun Goes Down * 2004 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year * 2004 AMA Best Male Country Artist * 2005 CMT Video of the Year: I Go Back * 2005 CMT Hottest Video of the Year: Old Blue Chair * 2005 CMT Collabortive Video of the Year: Hey Good Lookin * 2005 ACM Vocal Event of the Year: When the Sun Goes Down * 2005 ACM Album of the Year: When the Sun Goes Down * 2005 ACM Top Male Vocalist * 2005 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year * 2005 CMA Entertainer of the Year * 2005 AMA Best Male Country Artist * 2006 CMT Video of the Year: Who You Be Today * 2006 ACM Top Male Vocalist * 2006 CMA Single of the Year: Summertime * 2006 CMA Album of the Year: The Road and the Radio * 2006 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year * 2006 AMA Best Male Country Artist * 2006 BMA Best Country Album: The Road and the Radio * 2006 BMA Best Country Song: Summertime * 2007 CMT Video of the Year: You Save Me * 2007 ACM Top Male Vocalist * 2007 CMA Music Video of the Year: You Save Me * 2007 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year * 2008 PCA Favorite Country Song: Never Wanted Nothing More * 2008 CMT Tearjerker Video of the Year: Don't Blink * 2008 CMT Male Video of the Year: Don't Blink * 2008 CMT Video of the Year: Don't Blink * 2008 ACM Video of the Year: Don't Blink * 2008 ACM Vocal Event of the Year: Shiftwork * 2008 ACM Single Record of the Year: Don't Blink * 2008 ACM Song of the Year: Don't Blink * 2008 ACM Album of the Year: Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates * 2008 ACM Top Male Vocalist * 2008 CMA Music Video of the Year "Don't Blink" * 2008 CMA Musical Event of the Year "Every Other Weekend" * 2008 CMA Musical Event of the Year "Shiftwork" * 2008 CMA Single of the Year "Don't Blink" * 2008 CMA Album of the Year "Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates" * 2008 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year * 2008 AMA Favorite Male Country Singer * 2009 PCA Favorite Male Singer * 2009 Grammy Best Collaborations w/ Vocals: Shiftwork * 2009 ACM Vocal Event of the Year: Down the Road * 2009 ACM Top Male Vocalist * 2009 ACM Entertainer of the Year
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