• Kenny was ranked #45 in the Top 50 Videos of 2007 for his video “Summertime”.

• Kenny Chesney won the entertainer of the year award at the 40th Annual Country Music Association Awards in 2006.

• Kenny Chesney’s tour “Senoritas and Margaritas” was the top selling country tour in 2002.

• In 1997, Kenny Chesney won an ACM award for “Top New Male Vocalist.”

• Kenny Chesney released his debut album in 1994. It was called In My Wildest Dreams, and it sold over 100,000 copies.

• Some of Kenny Chesney’s favorite songs are “Nobody In His Right Mind” by George Strait, and “Don’t Close Your Eyes” by Keith Whitley.

• Kenny Chesney’s favorite candy is M&Ms.

• When Kenny Chesney was nineteen, he got his first guitar as a Christmas present.

• Kenny Chesney first tried to play the guitar when he was in the fifth grade.

• Kenny Chesney first moved to Nashville on January 13, 1991.

• Some of the jobs that Kenny Chesney had when he was younger were a telemarketer, mail room sorter, and he used to valet park cars.

• Kenny Chesney’s favorite things to do are play golf, play football, go boating, read, and work out.

• Kenny Chesney’s favorite sports teams are the Chicago Cubs, the Tennessee Volunteers, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Atlanta Braves.

• Kenny Chesney’s favorite TV show is Friends.

• Kenny Chesney’s favorite movies are Forrest Gump and Almost Famous.

• Kenny Chesney’s favorite book is The Firm by John Grisham.

• Kenny Chesney’s favorite color is blue.

• Kenny Chesney went to Gibbs High School.

• Kenny Chesney’s nicknames are Bubba and Buh, which his younger sister calls him.

• Kenny Chesney has had more than twenty Top Ten songs on the Billboard Charts.

• Some of Kenny Chesney’s favorite food are fried potatoes with peanut butter, and macaroni with tomatoes.

• Kenny Chesney’s favorite sports are football, NASCAR, and baseball.

• In 1990, Kenny Chesney graduated with a degree in marketing from East Tennessee State University.

• Kenny won the 2006 Academy of Country Music Award for Entertainer of the Year.

• On the CMT Top 20 Videos of 2005, he held the #8 (Who You’d Be Today) and #2 (Anything But Mine) slots.

• Kenny’s new album The Road and the Radio debuted at #1.

• Two of Kenny’s albums “All I Want for Christmas is a Real Good Tan” and “Be As You Are: Songs from an Old Blue Chair” both went platinum without a radio single or promotion.

• He was nominated for 2005 CMA Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year. He lost both awards to Keith Urban.

• He won the 2004 CMA Album of the Year for his record When the Sun Goes Down.

• Chesney will have his first primetime network TV special Somewhere in the Sun on ABC, with concert footage from Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field statidum on 11/23/2005.

• Kenny’s favorite musicians are Conway Twitty, Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs, George Jones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and James Taylor.

• Began playing guitar in high school and didn’t develop an interest in music until then.

• Was raised in Luttrel, Tennessee, which is also the hometown of country star Chet Atkins.

• The first record label that Kenny Chesney signed with was Acuff-Rose in 1992, and then he signed with Capricorn Records in 1993, but now is signed with BNA Records.

• Has dark brown hair and blue eyes.

• Currently resides in Gallatin, Tennessee near fellow country singers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.

• First steady gig was playing at a honkytonk called The Turf.

• He has released one Christmas album All I Want For Christmas is a Real Good Tan.

• He was nearly arrested in 2000 when he hopped on a police officer’s horse at a fair in New York. Kenny was later aquitted of disorderly conduct.

• His album Be As You Are: Songs From An Old Blue Chair was inspired by his love for the Florida keys and the Carribean islands.

• The video for his song “The Tin Man” was supposed to be filmed between the two World Trade Center towers on 9/11/01. Due to equipment delays, filming for the video was set back and Kenny and the filming crew avoided being caught in the 9/11 tragedy.

• Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney’s marriage ceremony lasted 15 minutes.

• “Anything But Mine” spent 17 weeks on the charts before becoming number one.

• Kenny’s 11 album The Road and the Radio will be released on November 8.

• On September 15, 2005, Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellweger had their marriage annuled, citing “fraud” as the reason in the legal papers.

• Musical influences are John Mellencamp, Jimmy Buffet, and George Jones.

• His song, “You Had Me From Hello,” was written from Renee Zellweger’s famous line in Jerry Maguire.

• Married Renee Zellweger in the U.S. Virgin Islands on May 9, 2005.