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17 June 2005
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Kenny Chesney Goes Four Deep--
When The Sun Goes Down Joins No Shoes, No Shirt & Greatest Hits at 4x Platinum


   Nashville: Sometimes it all comes down to paperwork -- but it's official: Kenny Chesney's When The Sun Goes Down is quadruple platinum. That sales figure places his latest alongside No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems and Greatest Hits albums at the heavy metal railing.

   "That's awesome," says the man who recently matched his Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year with the same title from the Academy of Country Music. "We put a lot of heart into that record, and the fact that the people are still buying it, that they're singing all the words back to us at shows. Well, that's pretty cool. I mean, I know what a part of my life music was - and this makes me think that maybe in some small way, I could be giving that same thing back to the fans of this music."

   When The Sun Goes Down is the Country Music Association Album of the Year. With three multiple week #1s - the fate-altering and -elevating "There Goes My Life," the big fun title track that featured eventual tourmate Uncle Kracker and the yearning "Anything But Mine," along with the female-recognition "The Woman With You" and Chesney's own life-in-the-songs "I Go Back" and revelry romping "Keg In The Closet," the Luttrell, Tennessean's songs have more than served as the soundtrack of the past two summers.

   "When I look into that crowd every night, I look at those faces. I wonder about their lives, though in a lot of ways, I know," says the man who is the only country artist this year to headline stadium shows. "If you're connected to where you come from, what you believe, you'd be surprised how alike we all are."

   To celebrate the news, Chesney did in classic all American guy fashion: he went to see the Oakland A's play ball -- and threw out the first pitch, then headed back to the bus and rocked Oakland. As the Somewhere In The Sun Tour -- featuring ACM Female Vocalist of the Year Gretchen Wilson and multiple Grammy-nominee Pat Green -- rolls on, look for the West Coast sweep to keep up its blistering pace -- before heading back to the Midwest and Southeast, along with stadium shows in Boston and Pittsburgh on July 23 and July 30 respectively.

   With Be As You Are: Songs From An Old Blue Chair -- his third #1 debut on Billboard's all-genre Top 200 without benefit of a single or tour -- still selling briskly, and Somewhere In The Sun on track to outsell last year's 1.4 million tickets sold Margaritas & Senoritas Tour, Kenny Chesney's blazing a new trail, and along the way, he's picking up a little bit of heavy metal in the process.

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