Nashville, TN – Brad Paisley’s new studio album, This Is Country Music, debuts at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with more than 152,000 albums sold according to Nielsen SoundScan, marking the chart’s best first-week sales of 2011. This is Paisley’s sixth consecutive studio album to debut as the nation’s country best-seller. This Is Country Music also debuts at #2 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart.
Paisley’s second single, “Old Alabama,” from This Is Country Music is atop both the Billboard and Country Aircheck airplay charts this week giving Paisley his 19th #1 single.
This Is Country Music is a 15-track collection, with 12 co-written by Paisley, and produced by Frank Rogers. His first studio album since American Saturday Night (July of 2009) includes guest performances by Carrie Underwood (the duet, “Remind Me”), Don Henley (“Love Her Like She’s Leavin’”), Blake Shelton (“Don’t Drink the Water”), Marty Stuart, Sheryl Crow, and Carl Jackson (“Life’s Railway to Heaven”) and Clint Eastwood (the instrumental, “Eastwood”).
Brad Paisley not only has the #1 song on the country singles charts, “Old Alabama,” and the #1 album, This Is Country Music, on the country album chart this week but will also kick-off his H2O II: Wetter & Wilder World Tour presented by Chevy June 3 in Virginia Beach, VA followed by Hartford, CT on Saturday. The 30 city tour includes four stadiums and an international trek that includes London’s O2 Arena, Dublin, Stockholm, Oslo and more. Special guests on the tour will be Blake Shelton and Jerrod Niemann.
H2O II: Wetter & Wilder World Tour will bring back the very popular and fan favorite “Water World Plaza,” turning every city into a water festival. Focal point in the Plaza area will be the “Water World Plaza Stage” featuring emerging new stars Edens Edge, Sunny Sweeney and Brett Eldredge and the JaneDear girls alternating show dates. The tour extravaganza will open each day at 4:00pm with music starting at 5:00pm. In addition to the music stage there will be multiple water-themed activities – including a Chevy H2O FLW fishing simulator, dunking booth, slip n slide, and other various water games.
Live Nation is the national tour promoter. Log on to
www.bradpaisley.com and
www.livenation.com for on-sale and up to date information on H2O II: Wetter & Wilder World Tour - dates to be added.
*Paisley only shows.
**Paisley, Shelton, Niemann only
June 3 Farm Bureau Live at VA Beach Virginia Beach, VA
June 4 Comcast Theatre Hartford, CT
June 11 Progressive Field Cleveland, OH
June 16 Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati, OH
June 17 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre St. Louis, MO
June 18 Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis, IN
June 24 Wild West Arena-Nebraskaland Days North Platte, NE**
June 25 Tuttle Creek State Park Manhattan, KS**
July 2 Lavell Edwards Stadium Provo, UT*
July 9 Cavendish Beach Music Festival Cavendish, P.E.I.**
July 15 PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel, NJ
July 16 Comcast Center Boston, MA
July 17 Scarborough Downs Scarborough, ME
July 22 Toyota Pavilion Scranton, PA
July 23 Darien Lakes PAC Darien Lakes, NY
July 30 Pizza Hut Park Frisco, TX
August 4 WE Fest Detroit Lakes, MN**
August 6 First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre Chicago, IL
August 7 Columbus Crew Stadium Columbus, OH
August 17 O2 Arena London, UK*
August 19 Olympia Theatre Dublin, IRE*
August 24 Cirkus Stockholm, SWE*
August 26 Spektrum Oslo, NOR*
August 27 Lisebergshallen Goteburg, SWE*
August 28 Forum Copenhagen, DEN*
September 9 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre Tampa, FL
September 10 Cruzan Amphitheatre West Palm Beach, FL
September 23 Susquehanna Bank Center Philadelphia, PA
September 24 Jiffy Lube Live Washington, DC
September 25 Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion Raleigh, NC
