Hot Tickets: Lambert and Chesney Sell-Out
Recently "People Magazine Country," Cotton Incorporated and Lambert hosted a VIP party in Nashville to coincide with the launch of her print campaign representing "The Fabric Of Our Lives." Lambert is featured on the back cover of the current "People Magazine Country Special Issue" and the Aug. 17 cover of Country Weekly.
Tickets for Miranda Lambert’s Revolution At The Ryman went on sale Friday and were gone by the end of the weekend. At the Sept. 24 event she will perform her entire new album, Revolution, before it is released on Sept. 29. The new single, “White Liar,” written by Lambert and Natalie Hemby has quickly become a fan favorite in concert and is rising at radio. She explains, “This songs sounds like a lot of my influences. I feel like it’s a huge staple on this album because it’s different.” Adding, “I love songs that create images, tell a story that people can make up there own little movie to in their minds.”
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Kenny Chesney is taking the concept of his surprise, last-minute Keg in the Closet shows to the arena level. The small events typically take place in the bars of SEC college towns.
While waiting to take the stage and play to a sold out crowd of 49,000 at Detroit’s Ford Field, tickets quietly went on sale for a just-added Sept. 17 show at Bloomington, IL’s US Cellular Coliseum. Tickets were gone in about 3 minutes.
Chesney’s Corona Extra presents Sun City Carnival recently played his fifth consecutive sell-out in Boston’s stadium, and fourth consecutive sell-out at Ford Field in Detroit.
Also on the schedule is a Sept. 15 intimate show at Times Square’s Hard Rock Café as part of the vaunted chain’s Ambassadors of Rock program. The Sun City Carnival’s final hurrah will be at Indianapolis’ Lincoln Oil Field.
Rascal Flatts was already the largest selling and grossing group in country music history, and now the band just sold its four millionth concert ticket in a span of four years.
Hot Schatz Public Relations has signed platinum-selling Darryl Worley to its roster of clients for independent publicity services. He broke onto the country music scene in 2000 with “When You Need My Love” and has charted 17 songs including “I Miss My Friend,” “Awful, Beautiful Life” and “A Good Day to Run.” His biggest career hit came in 2003 with the 9/11 tribute song, “Have You Forgotten?” Worley’s latest single and Top 20 hit, “Sounds Like Life to Me,” is the second single from his sixth studio album, Sounds Like Life, on Stroudavarious Records, released in early June.
Kellie Pickler’s recent show at the Freeborn County Fair drew the highest grossing box office receipts in the event’s 126-year history. She opened the show with her Top 10 and gold certified single, “Best Days Of Your Life.” 90 minutes later with rain falling, she closed the show with “Red High Heels” and invited every young girl in the audience to join her onstage, passing the microphone around for the girls to sing with her. By the time the song ended, the stage was packed with fans singing in unison.