Kenny Chesney can’t wait to return to Sphere for his residency in 2026. Chesney, who headlined his inaugural Live at Sphere Las Vegas in 2025, is working to make this year’s residency the best it can be, vowing to make it different from his previous one, so fans can have a new experience. “Having spent last year’s residency coming to really…
Kenny Chesney is still a force to be reckoned with. 31 years after his debut In My Wildest Dreams album was released, Chesney just became the only country act named in the Top 10 of Pollstar‘s Top 10 Touring Acts Of the Millennium. The list was created based on data of touring acts from 2001 to 2025. Chesney comes…
Kenny Chesney became close friends with Jimmy Buffett. So when Buffett was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024, one year after he passed away from cancer, Chesney was tapped to perform, along with Mac MacAnally, who was in Buffett’s band, and James Taylor. Chesney now reveals that Buffett was also with them on stage,…
Megan Moroney is very, very grateful for Kenny Chesney. Moroney got to open for him in 2024, on his Sun Goes Down Tour. And while the experience was great for Moroney and her career, it also made her close with her musical hero. “Some days, I’ll just wake up and be like, ‘Oh. Kenny Chesney is one of my…
More performers have been added to the 2025 CMA Awards! Kenny Chesney, Patty Loveless, Kelsea Ballerini, Brandi Carlile, Riley Green, Miranda Lambert, Old Dominion, The Red Clay Strays, and Chris Stapleton will now perform. They join a previously announced list of performers, which includes BigXThaPlug, Luke Combs, Ella Langley, Megan Moroney, Shaboozey, Zach Top, Tucker Wetmore, Lainey Wilson, and Stephen…
Kenny Chesney is opening up about the loss of songwriter Brett James. A prolific songwriter, James was killed in a plane crash in September, along with his wife and stepdaughter. It’s James who is the writer behind several Chesney hits, including “You Save Me,” “Just To Say We Did,” “When the Sun Goes Down,” and more. “I’ve lost someone recently,…
Kenny Chesney still can’t believe how far his life has come. The 57-year-old reflects on his journey, one he shares with the world in his HEART*LIFE*MUSIC book, out now. “If you would have told the kid, laying on his back behind his grandmother’s house in the yard, looking up at the East Tennessee sky, that I would be in the…
Kenny Chesney is opening up about his recent inducttion into the Country Music Hall of Fame. For an artist who has already achieved far more than most artists, of any genre, being a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame will forever be one of the biggest highlgihts of his life and career. “I have to tell you,…
Kenny Chesney recently announced he is returning to Las Vegas in 2026. Chesney, who sold out all of the dates on his inaugural Live at Sphere Las Vegas residency, says fans who come back to see him next year can expect a different experience from what he did previously. “We have to change it some,” Chesney tells SiriusXM. “Half…
Long before Kenny Chesney was a superstar, he was a music fan. Chesney recalls seeing Jimmy Buffett at a now-closed outdoor venue, Starwood Amphitheater, in Nashville, which became the inspiration for the kind of experience Chesney wanted fans to have at his own show someday. “When I went to my first Jimmy Buffett show, I had just moved to…
