Kenny Chesney photo by Glen Rose, courtesy of SonyBMG.
September 18, 2007 — In its first day of official release, every track from Kenny Chesney's new album, Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, hit the Nielsen BDS airplay chart.
"Never Wanted Nothing More," the album's first single, reached No. 1 in 7 weeks and became the year's longest-running chart-topper with a 5-week stay at No. 1. A second single, "Don't Blink," which had to be released four weeks before the album's Sept. 11 street date, landed in the Top 10 in its third week on the chart.
With both "Don't Blink" and "Never Wanted Nothing More" still in the Top 15, "Shiftwork" — featuring George Strait on vocals — lands at No. 37, while the Dwight Yoakam-penned "Wild Ride" — featuring guitar work and a rave vocoder performance by Joe Walsh — hits No. 43. The David Lee Murphy-penned "Just Not Today" comes in right behind it at No. 44.
Four of the new CD's songs are in the 50s on the chart: "Dancin' for the Groceries" (53)," "Wife and Kids" (55), "Got a Little Crazy" (56) and "Better as a Memory" (58), while "Demons" lands at No. 65 and "Scare Me" at No. 73.
"When you're working on a record, you never really know how people are gonna like it," Kenny says. "But to have a record come out and people, both at radio and the ones listening, respond like this, well, it just kinda makes you pause."'