Kenny Chesney Achieves Biggest Add Day Ever With New Single ‘Carry On’

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Kenny Chesney. Photo: Allister Ann

Kenny Chesney‘s first single in two years and first for the new indie label Hey Now Records, Carry On, has achieved a pair of firsts: his highest ever add day, and all 158 panel stations adding the single on the first week.

“Carry On” locking the panel on week one marks only the third time in Mediabase history this has happened. Garth Brooks achieved the feat back in 1997, and Post Malone with Morgan Wallen delivered 100% of the reporters out of the gate in 2024. Chesney has definitely struck a chord with the feel good tune filled with bartender wisdom that packs bits of reggae undertow, bluegrass harmonies and a summer anthem chorus that sparks people to turn it up, drive faster, laugh louder, stay a little longer and then get up and seize the day the morning after.

“Some songs just hit you in the heart,” recalls Chesney, “and when I heard it, I was right there at the end of the bar at Schooner Wharf, which is such old Key West. I could see it, hear it, taste it – and the more I listened to songs, and I’ve heard some unbelievable songs this time around, the more I knew I wanted to find a song that would not just make people happy, but give them permission to live their life so in the moment and free.

“The world’s overwhelming, between our phones and the news, it’s a lot. But the truth is: our lives are right now, and we need to remember – no matter what – that we gotta find the joy and happiness wherever, however, because that’s the only thing we can control.”

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