Alan Jackson sold out all four announced concerts in Australia when tickets went on sale Friday - Oct. 8, 2010. Set for March 2011, the brief tour was to have included concerts in Melbourne and Sydney and two shows in Brisbane. An additional performance in Brisbane has been added because of ticket demand.
"The excitement level for Alan Jackson's first tour in our country just can't be measured," concert promoter Rob Potts said. "The fans can't believe he's really coming -- and ticket sales have proven just how excited they are."
Jackson is looking forward to his first-ever Australian tour. "I've always heard that it's just beautiful down there, and everybody I know that's been there has loved it," he said. "I've heard that the Australian people are really warm and welcome people from the U.S. so generously. That's all I've ever heard -- just great things. Great things."
kenny chesney - hemingsway's whiskey
Kenny Chesney's new album Hemingway's Whiskey sold 176,000 copies in its debut week, giving the country superstar his sixth Number One on the Billboard 200. Garth Brooks is the only country artist with more chart-toppers at eight.
The digital-only release of Lil Wayne's I Am Not a Human Being EP was downloaded 110,000 times, putting Weezy at Number Two, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Zac Brown Band You Get What You Give, last week's chart-topper, dropped to Number Three, selling 70,000 copies.
Country and hip-hop dominated the Top Five this week: Gucci Mane's post-incarceration comeback album The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted came in at Number Four, and Eminem's Recovery took the fifth spot. Total album sales were up six percent compared to last week.
The digital-only release of Lil Wayne's I Am Not a Human Being EP was downloaded 110,000 times, putting Weezy at Number Two, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Zac Brown Band You Get What You Give, last week's chart-topper, dropped to Number Three, selling 70,000 copies.
Country and hip-hop dominated the Top Five this week: Gucci Mane's post-incarceration comeback album The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted came in at Number Four, and Eminem's Recovery took the fifth spot. Total album sales were up six percent compared to last week.
ozzy osbourne ~ covers john lennon
The Black Sabbath heavy-metal king, Ozzy Osbourne, has made a cover of Lennon's "How," available on iTunes to benefit Amnesty International.
Osbourne says Lennon was a "driving force for humanity." He also credits the Beatles as the inspiration for his musical career.
ronnie dunn ~ going solo!
Ronnie Dunn, best known for his work with Brooks & Dunn, is working on a solo album that will be out next year. He is also producing the project, according to Renee Bell, executive vice president of A&R at Sony Music Nashville.
Dunn's manager, Clarence Spalding, confirms that the album will be on Arista Nashville, Brooks & Dunn's longtime label, which is a division of Sony.
Dunn has recorded a solo track for Country Strong, the upcoming film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw. His contribution is a cover of "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)," a Wayne Carson Thompson song that was a No. 1 hit for Gary Stewart in 1975. Country Strong will be released nationwide on Jan. 7, 2011.
Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn teamed up in 1991. Brooks & Dunn proved to be an inspired pairing from the start. Their first four singles all went No. 1.
During this time, Dunn came into his own as a songwriter. He and Brooks, along with Don Cook, co-wrote their first two No. 1's -- "Brand New Man" and "My Next Broken Heart." Dunn wrote the next three chart-toppers -- "Neon Moon," "Boot Scootin' Boogie" and "She Used to Be Mine" -- all on his own. He also quickly asserted himself as the act's lead vocalist.
Over the next several years, he would write or share the writing on such No. 1's as "That Ain't No Way to Go," "She's Not the Cheatin' Kind," "Little Miss Honky Tonk," "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone," "A Man This Lonely," "Red Dirt Road," "It's Getting Better All the Time" and "Play Something Country."
Before splitting up this year at the end of their triumphant Last Rodeo tour, Brooks & Dunn could look back on winning two Grammys for best country vocal performances and 14 CMA awards for vocal duo of the year. In 1996, they were voted CMA's entertainer of the year.
They performed their final show in Nashville on Sept. 2, 2010.
In the course of their career, Brooks & Dunn sold more than 30 million albums and were one of the biggest concert draws of their era. Dunn has won BMI awards for 25 of his songs.
rascal flatts ~ help children's hospital
Rascal Flatts, longtime contributors to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, announced that they will offer 100 tickets to their fans on a first-come, first-serve basis to a very special private fundraising event taking place in Nashville on November 4, 2010.
They have been hosting these intimate concerts in Nashville for four years as an additional fundraising occasion for the hospital. This year the "Behind The Music" event will also feature emcee Ron White.
Fans may go to www.rascalflatts.com beginning this Friday, October 1, 2010 to purchase tickets. There are only 100 tickets, so act fast.
They have been hosting these intimate concerts in Nashville for four years as an additional fundraising occasion for the hospital. This year the "Behind The Music" event will also feature emcee Ron White.
Fans may go to www.rascalflatts.com beginning this Friday, October 1, 2010 to purchase tickets. There are only 100 tickets, so act fast.
australasian big day out tour
Tool, Rammstein, Iggy and the Stooges, M.I.A and LCD Soundsystem are some of the key acts that will be a part of the 2011 Australasian Big Day Out Tour.
"This is by far our biggest and most diverse announcement ever," organizers Ken West and Vivian Lees said in a statement. "From the heaviest to the sweetest sounds in the world today, this will be a sensory overload not to be missed."
The Big Day Out Tour is Australia's premier touring festival. The 2011 event will run across six cities, beginning January 21 in Auckland, before crossing the Tasman Sea for dates on the Gold Coast (January 23), Sydney (January 26), Melbourne (January 30), Adelaide (February 4) and winding-down in Perth (February 6.)
"This is by far our biggest and most diverse announcement ever," organizers Ken West and Vivian Lees said in a statement. "From the heaviest to the sweetest sounds in the world today, this will be a sensory overload not to be missed."
The Big Day Out Tour is Australia's premier touring festival. The 2011 event will run across six cities, beginning January 21 in Auckland, before crossing the Tasman Sea for dates on the Gold Coast (January 23), Sydney (January 26), Melbourne (January 30), Adelaide (February 4) and winding-down in Perth (February 6.)
jamey johnson ~ the guitar song
Jamey Johnson is at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 top selling all genres albums with his Sept. 14, 2010 released, The Guitar Song.
The two-disc, 25-song album is a follow up to the singer’s Grammy-nominated, That Lonesome Song, and is the highest debut of the Johnson’s career.
“My dream already came true,” Johnson said. “All I ever wanted was just to get to ride around and sing Country Music.”
aaron lewis of staind - solo tour
Aaron Lewis has announced plans for an acoustic tour, kicking off October 7th in Boston. Lewis is expected to preview tracks from his solo debut album he finished earlier this year while on the tour. Full tour dates are listed below.
Lewis told Billboard in July that the album did not yet have a release date, but would be released by Atlantic Records.
"It's acoustic guitar based," Lewis said of the solo record, "and I recorded it in Nashville with a bunch of country session musicians. So it's kind of somewhere between country and James Taylor and 'It's Been Awhile.'" Adding to the album's country theme, Hank Williams Jr., George Jones and Charlie Daniels will be featured on the album's first single, titled "Country Boy."
Following the tour, Lewis is expected to reunite with the members of Staind to begin work on the band's follow up to The Illusion of Progress.
Lewis told Billboard in July that the album did not yet have a release date, but would be released by Atlantic Records.
"It's acoustic guitar based," Lewis said of the solo record, "and I recorded it in Nashville with a bunch of country session musicians. So it's kind of somewhere between country and James Taylor and 'It's Been Awhile.'" Adding to the album's country theme, Hank Williams Jr., George Jones and Charlie Daniels will be featured on the album's first single, titled "Country Boy."
Following the tour, Lewis is expected to reunite with the members of Staind to begin work on the band's follow up to The Illusion of Progress.
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