
Nashville, TN (Kenny Chesney Official Website) - It just keeps coming faster and harder at the man who sold out Moline in less than 10 minutes and moved 40,000 for his July 16th show at Boston's Gillette Stadium on Saturday - as 'Living In Fast Forward,' the second single from his nearly triple platinum The Road & The Radio, spend a second week at No 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart and tales the top spot on
Radio & Records' Country
Radio Chart. Not bad for a record that didn't even have it's official release date until January 9th.
'This one's got rockets attached to it, no doubt,' says the reigning Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year. 'And I think it may've moved up the chart even faster than the way that song moves on the record… Not that I'm complaining! Sometimes you just get one, and this sure feels like one of those songs that has its own kind of momentum. It's crazy, but it's crazy in a good way.'
Written by Rivers Rutherford and David Lee Murphy, 'Living In Fast Forward' is a quick plunge into the trajectory of high speed road life, the rush of the crowd, the pace that must be maintained and the need to keep going. For a stay-to-himself guy from Luttrell, who just found himself on the cover of Billboard between Mick Jagger and U2's Bono as 2005's most successful acts, the milestones just seem to keep on coming.
With the first leg of his The Road & The Road 2006 Tour selling out like flash-fire in most markets - often requiring second dates to be added the same day due to demand - and nine stadium shows to be scattered throughout the summer, Chesney's notion of taking it to the people is hitting new crescendos. For a man who's played to over one million people for the last four years, that's a pretty profound thing, and yet…
'The strangest thing about what we're doing is… the more we do, the more we find out we can do,' says the songwriter who recently received a plaque certifying 25 million albums sold. 'Stuff we wouldn't have dared dream three years ago is completely within reason… and when we think the fans can't get any louder, have any more fun, outsing us any harder, here comes a new night - and they show us just what rocking is all about. If this is living in fast forward, , me and the guys don't wanna slow down.'
And everything starts Marcy 23-24 in Dayton, Ohio. After months of pre-production, weeks of rehearsal, hours of editing video and all the songs that're quickly becoming the soundtrack of life as people really live, love and tail-gait it, Kenny Chesney, CMA Horizon Award winner Dierks Bentley and double-platinum Georgians Sugarland are gonna kick out the jams - and get this year's tour started. 'Living In Fast Forward'? Absolutely.