“Kenny Chesney’s List Of Tours”

“The Tours”

Kenny Chesney has won the Billboard Touring Award for “Top Package Tour” five consecutive years between 2005 and 2009, and again in 2011, 2012 and 2015! In addition, Kenny received the Pinnacle Award at the 50th annual CMA Awards in 2016. The honor recognizes an artist who has achieved global prominence through concert performances and record sales at levels unique in country music. He has also won numerous “Top Country Tour” awards through Billboard. Kenny is the only country act on Billboard’s Top 10 Touring Acts for the Last 25 Years.

Looking at the list below he has actually not taken a summer off of touring since he started back in 2001! (except during Covid)

The trend is traditionally a huge stadium tour every other year alternating with amphitheaters or smaller scale venues in-between.

• 2001: Greatest Hits Tour (Lee Ann Womack)
• 2002: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems Tour (Montgomery Gentry, Jamie O’Neal and Phil Vassar)
• 2003: Margaritas N’ Senoritas Tour (Deana Carter, Sara Evans, and Keith Urban)
• 2004: Guitars, Tiki Bars and a Whole Lotta Love Tour (Rascal Flatts (select Dates), Dierks Bentley, and Keith Urban)
• 2005: Somewhere in the Sun Tour (Gretchen Wilson, Uncle Kracker and Pat Green)
• 2006: The Road and The Radio Tour (Dierks Bentley, Big & Rich, Carrie Underwood, and Gretchen Wilson)
• 2007: Flip-Flop Summer Tour (Brooks & Dunn, Sugarland, Sara Evans, Pat Green, and Taylor Swift)
• 2008: The Poets and Pirates Tour (Keith Urban, LeAnn Rimes, Gary Allan, Luke Bryan, and Sammy Hagar)
• 2009: Sun City Carnival Tour (Miranda Lambert, Sugarland, Lady Antebellum, and Montgomery Gentry, and with Luke Bryan on the June 14 Chicago show)
• 2010: Ten With a Two Tour
• 2011: Goin’ Coastal Tour (Zac Brown Band, Uncle Kracker, and Billy Currington)
• 2012: Brothers of the Sun Tour (Tim McGraw, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, and Jake Owen)
• 2013: No Shoes Nation Tour (Eric Church (stadiums only), Zac Brown Band (certain stadiums), Eli Young Band, and Kacey Musgraves)
• 2014: Flora~Bama Jama (One Day Only On the Beach)
• 2015: The Big Revival Tour (Jason Aldean (select dates), Eric Church (select dates), Jake Owen, Cole Swindell, Miranda Lambert, Brantley Gilbert, Chase Rice, and Old Dominion)
• 2016: Spread the Love Tour (Miranda Lambert, Old Dominion, and Sam Hunt)
• 2017: Summer Of Seventeen Tour (Festivals and Gillette Stadium two nights)
• 2018: Trip Around The Sun Tour (Old Dominion, Brandon Lay, Thomas Rhett)
• 2019: Songs For The Saints Tour (Caroline Jones, David Lee Murphy)
• 2020: Chillaxification Tour (Florida Georgia Line, Old Dominion, Michael Franti) Canceled Due To Covid
• 2021 Covid No Tour
• 2022: Here & Now Tour (Dan and Shay Old Dominion, Carly Pearce)
• 2023: I Go Back Tour (Kelsea Ballerini)
• 2024: Sun Goes Down Tour (Uncle Kracker, Megan Moroney, Zach Brown Band)