Kenny Charts With Every Track on New CD

9/14/2007 Stephen L. Betts “Just when I was sure I knew what crazy was, here we go again.” That’s Kenny Chesney’s assessment of the remarkable chart feat he pulled off this week. In only one day of official release, country radio responded to Kenny's first new music in two years with the same hunger they applied to Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates’ initial single. Every one of the tracks from the new album hit the BDS* charts in one day. With “Never Wanted Nothing More,” the project’s lead track, experiencing such an accelerated response – No. 1 in 7 weeks, then becoming the year’s longest-running chart-topper with a 5-week stay at No. 1 - a second single had to be released four weeks before the album’s Sept. 11 street date. “Don’t Blink” landed in the Top 10 in its third week on the chart. “I thought that was crazy,” marvels Kenny. “To have a first single do so well, then you have to get your second single out there, so there’s a new single when your record comes out…” But that’s not all, folks. With both “Don’t Blink” and “Never Wanted Nothing More” still in the Top 15, “Shiftwork” - featuring George Strait on vocals – lands at No. 37, while the Dwight Yoakam-penned “Wild Ride” -- featuring guitar work and a rave vocoder performance by Joe Walsh – hits No. 43, while the David Lee Murphy-penned “Just Not Today” comes in right behind it at No. 44. Four of Just Who I Am’s songs are in the 50s - “Dancin’ for the Groceries” (53),” “Wife and Kids” (55), “Got a Little Crazy” (56)   and “Better as a Memory” (58) – while  “Demons” is at No. 65 and “Scare Me” is at No. 73. “When you’re working on a record, you never really know how people are gonna like it,” says Kenny. “But to have a record come out and people, both at radio and the ones listening, respond like this, well, it just kinda makes you pause.” *BDS, also known as Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, uses digital technology to track monitored radio, television and Internet airplay of songs. The service helps determines the Billboard and R&R chart rankings each week, based on the number of spins and detections, in combination with sales figures compiled through another Nielsen service, Nielsen SoundScan.