Kenny Chesney is an American country music singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He has recorded more than 20 albums and has produced more than 40 Top 10 singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, 32 of which have reached number one.
Out of his several deeds, Chesney released Songs for the Saints under a new label, 'Warner Music Nashville,' in July 2018 and teamed with Ed Sheeran to pen Tip of My Tongue. Although his 2020 Chillaxification Tour was put on hold due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the artist has come up with the arrival of a new album, Here and Now, on 1 May.
Chesney will be embarking on a tour performing on several stops or event venues soon.
Kenny Chesney Announces His Tour Dates
After postponing his previous tour due to the coronavirus pandemic, Kenny Chesney has firmed up plans for a stadium tour that will kick off next spring.
'The Here and Now: 2022 Stadium Tour' are Chesney’s first live dates to be announced since having to table his '2020 Chillaxification Tour' last spring as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.
'The Here and Now' trek gets underway on 23 April at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, with many of the locations Chesney had previously announced for the Chillaxification Tour now on his 2022 itinerary. Chesney will wrap things up next year on 26 and 27 August with a two-night stand at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Kenny Chesney announces his tour dates (©: wideopencountry.com)
According to his official website, Kenny Chesney’s 'Here and Now' tour dates 2022 are listed as follows:
July 9 – Bozeman, MT @Bobcat Stadium
July 16 – Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field
July 23 – Inglewood, CA @ SoFi Stadium
July 30 – Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High
August 6 – Minneapolis, MN @ U.S. Bank Stadium
August 13 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
August 20 – Detroit, MI @ Ford Field
August 26 & 27 – Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium
Tickets are on sale now. Previously purchased tickets will be honored for the corresponding 2022 shows, and refunds are available for the next 30 days.
“We’re calling the tour Here And Now 2022 because when we get together, there is only the present – and it’s so electric and good, I know I don’t want it to end,” Chesney said in a statement.
How Much Is Kenny Chesney Net Worth?
With over 40 albums releases and several popular singles, Kenny has accumulated significantly high fame and wealth to his name. According to CelebrityNetWorth, he has an estimated net worth of $180 million.
According to Billboard, he has released nine No.1 albums and sold out dozens of tours, with his tour in 2019 earning over $10 million in ticket sales. Chesney has sold over 30 million records and millions of singles, per Sony Music, which brings him even more fortune.
Besides earning his big bucks through his music, Chesney has also made investments in property. He bought an 11,143 sq. ft. estate in Franklin, Tennessee in 2010, for $9.2 million, Variety reports. He will still be cashing in some more through his upcoming tours and songs with all this money to himself.
Kenny Chesney Music Career Highlights
Kenny Chesney has had a keen interest in music since as a child. After graduating with a degree in marketing in 1991 from East Tennessee State, he headed to Nashville to pursue a career in music.
He auditioned for local music publishing company. He received a songwriting contract in 1992, which led him to a recording contract the following year with Capricorn Records, for which he recorded his debut album In My Wildest Dreams (1994).
Shortly thereafter, Kenny was picked up by the BNA record label for his amazing works. His first album for that company, All I Need to Know (1995), sold well, but his next album, Me and You (1996) sold more than 500,000 copies. By 2000, Chesney was a bona fide star who was adored by legions of country music fans.
In 2001, he released his first Greatest Hit album, followed by 2002’s rock-influenced No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems. When the Sun Goes Down (2004), his follow-up effort also reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and produced three chart-topping singles, including There Goes My Life.
In 2005, Chesney was honored as the 'Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year' for the first time. The following year, he released a concert album, Live: Live Those Songs Again, which topped the country charts and made an impressive showing on the pop charts.
Chesney went on tour during the summer of 2008 to support Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, which was very successful.
His 2008’s 'Lucky Old Sun's single Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven became an instant No. 1 county music hit. He tops the country charts with the album Hemingway’s Whiskey (2010), which included hit singles The Boys of Fall, Somewhere with You, Lives a Little, and Reality.
After Welcome to the Fishbowl (2012), Chesney continued his pace of delivering a new album on a near-annual basis, releasing Life on a Rock (2013), The Big Revival (2014), Cosmic Hallelujah (2016), and No Shoes Nation (2017). His follow-up album, Live in No Shoes Nation, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 later in the year.
Insight To Kenny Chesney Previous Married Life
Kenny Chesney was in an unusual married life with actress Renne Zellweger.
The former couple, who met in January- tied the knot back in May 2005 in the Virgin Islands in an intimate ceremony. But their union was a short one. The marriage only lasted for about four months, with Renee filing for an annulment in September.
When the pair split, Renee cited “fraud” as the reason, which resulted in speculations that he was gay or that he had lied to his former wife about his sexuality. But Renee later clarified that it was “simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny’s character.”
Renee’s citing plagued Kenny for several years, which was put to rest by Kenny himself, stressing that he is not gay.
Kenny Chesney and his ex-wife Renee Zellweger (©: goodhousekeeping.com)
The gay rumors were still going around Kenny’s life, and some years later, in an appearance for an interview, Kenny explained that the “fraud” citing was the least harmful one for their marriage annulment, as since other options in the papers didn’t fit well for their relationship.
The former lovebirds have never really opened up about their time together but have attributed their split to a ‘miscommunication of the objective of their marriage’ and irreconcilable differences.
During their short interval of married life, the former Hollywood couple never had any kids.
Several reports have been romantically involved with a few women since calling it quits with Renee, including Miss Tennessee 2005 Amy Colley and ESPN broadcaster Jenn Brown. He was rumored to be dating fellow country star Miranda Lambert before she married her now-ex-husband, Blake Shelton, in 2011.
As of now, Kenny has been romantically linked with Mary Nolan. They have been together since the year 2012 though the pair remains extremely private about their relationship.
Kenny Chesney Intriguing Dating History
After the gay rumors surfaced in Kenny’s life, he repeatedly denied it. As per accessonline.com, in later years, Chesney told Playboy magazine of his reaction to the rumors:
"What guy who loves girls wouldn’t be angry about that? I didn’t sign up for that. I'm pretty confident in the fact that I love girls. I’ve got a long line of girls who could testify that I’m not gay. There were years when I had a better summer than A-Rod over 100 women. My first five years on the read were intense because I was the guy in college who never got laid until I started playing guitar."
After going through his divorce, Kenny got himself a new girlfriend, Amy Colley. The two were often spotted several times, vacationing on the clear beaches of Malibu and the Bahamas. However, their relationship started to crumble when Chesney spotted another woman in Cancun, Jenn Brown. This led to his split with Amy after two years of dating her.
Rumors also spread once Chesney was dating Miranda Lambert, but it became a folk tale.
Since the year 2012, Kenny is in a happy relationship with Mary Nolan. In a couple of awards ceremonies, Nolan has been seen beside Chesney, such as the CMA Awards and the Country Countdown Awards.
Kenny Chesney and Mary Nolan (©: Pinterest)
She was also seen kissing Kenny on the cheeks after the country singer has received the Pinnacle Award. Chesney and Nolan were recently seen in April of 2021 at the ACM Awards.