Eventful and Billboard are teaming up to let vans vote for the best concert of 2008 in the Eventful Fan’s Choice Awards. Kenny Chesney is a finalist and you can vote for him now!
The voting will end 2 pm PST on Wednesday, November 19, 2008.
The winner will be announced at the Billboard Touring Awards reception on November 20, 2008 at The Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. The awards reception will provide the culmination of the fifth annual Billboard Touring Conference, uniting today’s top touring professionals to network, do business and discuss the current state of the industry.
The second tour date of 2009 has been added: Kenny Chesney will perform at the Apple River Country Splash Festival at the Float Rite Amphitheater in Somerset, Wisconsin. The festival runs June 18th, 19th, and 20th. It has not yet been announced which of the days Chesney will perform.
Other artists that will perform at Country Splash include Rascal Flatts, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, and Jason Michael Caroll.
Willie Nelson is such an iconic figure that it might seem he is always hanging out on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs tally.
But this week’s No. 56 debut of “That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)” — credited to Kenny Chesney with Willie Nelson — is the first chart appearance by the country legend in almost five years. Nelson was last on the survey in January 2004 with another Chesney collaboration, the holiday song “Pretty Paper.”
The debut of “That Lucky Old Sun” expands Nelson’s country singles chart span to more than 46 years, dating back to the March 1962 debut of “Willingly.” “That Lucky Old Sun” is Nelson’s 121st chart entry, and while that sounds like a huge amount, it’s good enough to rank him only fourth among artists with the most entries in the 64-year history of this survey. The top three: George Jones (165), Eddy Arnold (143) and Johnny Cash (135).
Kenny Chesney’s latest album “Lucky Old Sun”has become his fifth number one album, but with one of his worse opening tallies in years:
“Lucky Old Sun,” Chesney’s 11th studio album, sold 176,000 copies during the week ended October 19, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The last studio album to start so poorly was “Everywhere We Go,” which sold 30,000 copies when it opened at No. 51 in 1999.
His previous release, “Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates,” debuted at No. 3 with 387,000 copies last September. His career-best start was the 551,000 haul for “When the Sun Goes Down” in 2004.
Chesney ended T.I.’s two-week reign atop the Billboard 200, as the rapper’s “Paper Trail” slipped to No. 2 with 132,000 copies.
Already the first tour date for 2009 has been announced. Kenny Chesney will perform at the 17th annual Merritt Mountain Music Festival in Merritt, British Columbia. It will be the first time that Chesney plays in Canada.
MountainFest runs from July 9th-12th. Chesney will take the stage on Saturday, July 11th.
Kenny Chesney will make another TV appearance this Friday to promote his new album “Lucky Old Sun. Catch Kenny on The Early Show on CBS, where he’ll perform… presumably “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven.”
In the past week, Chesney has appeared on Good Morning America, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Access Hollywood. He also had specials on GAC and CMT.
The second tour date of 2009 has been 
Kenny Chesney’s latest album 
ABC.com has up the video of Kenny’s performance on Good Morning America last week.
