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( 4 stories between 24th October 2008 and 8th October 2010 )King Kenny Secures Sixth No.1 Album
Oct, 8 2010
Kenny Chesney's twelfth studio album Hemingway's Whiskey is his sixth No.1 on the Billboard 200, and his seventh consecutive No.1 on the Country Albums chart. Hemingway sold 183,000 copies to take top spot, a little more than the 176,000 figure for the debut week of his last album, also a No.1, Lucky Old Sun (2008). Chesney is now two No.1s behind the Billboard 200's most successful country artist ever, Garth Brooks.
Lil Wayne's I Am Not A Human Being landed at No.2 with 110,000 digital-only sales, lending weight to suggestions by chart commentators that a simultaneous CD release might've given Weezy a shot at No.1. A CD version with three bonus tracks is due on October 12. Last week's No.1, Zac Brown Band's You Get What You Give, fell to No.3 with 70,000 sales.
Further down the chart, AC/DC's Iron Man 2 compilation soundtrack leapt from No.121 to No.70 after the movie arrived in DVD stores last week.
Kenny Chesney: A "Modern Day Pirate"
Aug, 22 2010
Kenny Chesney's last album Lucky Old Sun (2008) was named after an old song popularized by Frankie Laine, but his upcoming fourteenth album is inspired by a much newer song: Guy Clark's "Hemingway's Whiskey," from his 2009 album Somedays The Song Writes You.
"When I saw the title on a Guy Clark record, I was curious," Chesney told Billboard magazine, explaining that Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea is his favorite book. "It's a celebration of how he kind of walked between the raindrops. I do that a lot," he said. "I love that part of the song where it says, 'Sail away, sail away, three sheets to the wind, live hard, die hard, this one's for him.'"
"Even though I'm very healthy and regimented in my diet and everything, we live hard. We don't live as hard as the guys on Deadliest Catch, now they live hard. But we're in a different place every day, we're a lot like modern day pirates."
If those words remind fans of the album Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates (2007), Chesney will be hoping Hemingway's Whiskey is just as successful: despite missing out on a Billboard 200 No.1, Just Who I Am was one of the biggest selling country records of recent years. Lucky Old Sun did top the chart, but it's yet to register platinum sales.
"I don't know what I'd ask Hemingway if I had a beer with him" Chesney pondered. "We'd have to have whiskey, I guess."
Kenny Chesney
Sep, 10 2009
The Country Music Association has named its nominees for the 2009 awards, which included the by-now mandatory nomination for Kenny Chesney as Entertainer of the Year. It would’ve been a huge surprise if he hadn’t been shortlisted, having won the category in four out of the last five years. However, this year he will face a staunch challenge for the top award from a young usurper to the throne. Nineteen year old country-pop darling Taylor Swift is the only woman to be nominated in the Entertainer of the Year category, and if she wins it will be the first time a solo female has won the award since Shania Twain walked away with the trophy in 1999. Still, if Kenny does lose out to the new young sweetheart of country music, he does have a second opportunity in the Male Vocalist of the Year category and a third in the Musical Event of the Year field. The waiting will be over on November 11, when the decisions will be made and awards handed out at the Sommet Center in Nashville.
