Kenny Chesney is fully focused on giving fans the ultimate experience at his Live at Sphere Las Vegas residency later this year. The East Tennessee native hosted his inaugural Vegas residency in 2025, vowing that this year will be even better than before.
“Even though it’s a pretty big room and there are a lot of people in there, with the way it’s constructed, everyone is so close, you can do things that are a lot slower, that really want to be listened to,” Chesney hints. “We pulled out some songs last year we don’t do very often, and people really responded. So when the band and I got back together to start talking about what we might do this year, a lot of songs that we talked about, we haven’t done in a long time.”
Fans might know all of Chesney’s songs, but perhaps not the way he plans on introducing them while at Sphere.
“We’re having a great time trying things out, finding our way inside them,” Chesney explains. “We’re playing more things right now than we’ll actually be able to do, but I think we’re gonna surprise some people… because some of these songs we’ve never played, and a few we’ve not played in years. But I realized we can give people the space to really listen, and that makes all these songs so much better. I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up with 30, 40 percent new material, maybe more.”
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What Kenny Chesney Says About His 2026 Live at Sphere Las Vegas Residency
Chesney has been hinting, ever since his residency last year, that he wanted to do even more when he returns. Now that he has already experienced it once, the Country Music Hall of Fame member says nothing is off limits.
“Having spent last year’s residency coming to really understand this dynamic technology and how it deepens the way we all – me, the band, the fans – experience the music, I wanted to get back in there and really push what was possible,” Chesney says. “We all had ideas. We were told certain things. But what I really took away is how much fun – and different kinds of experiences people can have – no matter where they experience the show from.
“Knowing what we know now,” he adds, “we’re working on new songs, some things we can’t do in stadiums, new visuals, new momentum to the set. Having watched No Shoes Nation taking it all in, we have a much better sense of how to make Sphere even more.”
Why Kenny Chesney Wants to Change His Live at Sphere Las Vegas Residency in 2026
It’s important to Chesney to not repeat what he did in 2025, if only for the people who return for a second year.
“We have to change it some,” Chesney tells SiriusXM. “Half the show’s probably gonna be completely different. And we’re gonna change some of it. There’s some songs that we haven’t done in a while that we’re gonna do. That’s the beauty of it, because in that environment you get to do songs that you don’t get to do at stadium shows. And so, we did a lot of that this year, and we’re gonna do some more of that next summer.
“But I would say probably at least half the show is gonna be completely different,” he continues. “Because I wouldn’t want to go to the Sphere one year, and then come back the next year and see the exact same thing. It’s like, ‘Oh, well, I went to the circus last year and they did the same thing this year.’”
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