Kenny Chesney’s Summer Tour Ranks Among Biggest of the Year
By Chandler Reeves
July 20, 2018
According to a mid-year survey by Pollstar, Kenny Chesney’s Trip Around the Sun Tour is one of the year’s most lucrative.
The only country tour to make the rundown’s top 10, the Trip Around the Sun Tour has averaged a gross of $2.6 million in 25 shows and joins the likes of Taylor Swift’s Reputation Stadium Tour ($10.5 million in 10 shows), the Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods Tour (3.1 million in 36 shows). Luke Bryan’s What Makes You Country Tour landed at No. 15 on the list with an average gross of $1.4 million in 17 shows. Kenny began his 2018 trek at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium with 55,292 fans in attendance, and he’ll bring it this weekend to St. Louis's Busch Stadium.
Kenny’s new album Songs for the Saints drops on July 27. Proceeds benefit his Love for Love City Fund, which raises money for continued recovery and restoration of the Virgin Islands following Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
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