Toby Keith's "Red Solo Cup" Still Gains in Popularity

Posted by Melanie Agee on 11/17/2011
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 Toby Keith’s, “Red Solo Cup,” continues to grow in its fan-base after just a few weeks after the video debuted on the internet. The online views have reached more than 3 million and the song has been the No. 1 country download for two consecutive weeks. It is also the No. 1 requested video on CMT.

 
To help expand the fan-base even further, Fox’s hit show, Glee, will feature the song in early December. It is also being used as a music bed in teasers for the new Tim Allen sitcom, Last Man Standing.
 
Respected and influential radio consultant, Rusty Walker, recently told trade publication Country Aircheck, "Aside from Taylor Swift's career, which was a different manifestation, this is the first viral thing that has come back to hit country square in the forehead."
 
At Keith’s "Locked & Loaded" Tour shows, he has had to perform the song twice for multiple audiences to satisfy his fans that refuse to stop singing the song after Toby finishes. The standing-room-only audiences have recently helped Keith's tour top Billboard's weekly list of Hot Tours with over $14.5 million in box office grosses reported from 24 venues, including totals from the final two months of the North American leg as well as the beginning of the European trek that kicked off on Oct. 30.
 
The unofficial single has helped fuel sales of Keith’s latest album Clancy’s Tavern which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart.
 
Watch "Red Solo Cup" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZqGJONH68.