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Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney (born March 26, 1968) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He has recorded 20 albums, 14 of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than 40 Top 10 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, 28 of which have reached number 1 on the charts. Most of these have also charted high within the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 mainstream chart, making him one of the few successful crossover country artists. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. He also won 3 state football titles while in high school.
Chesney co-directed and produced a film for ESPN entitled The Boys of Fall. He has received six Academy of Country Music awards (including four consecutive Entertainer of the Year awards from 2005 to 2008), as well as six awards from the Country Music Association. He is one of the most popular touring acts in country music, regularly selling out the venues in which he performs. His 2007 Flip-Flop Summer Tour was the highest-grossing country road trip of the year.
Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He has been married to fellow singer Faith Hill since 1996, and is the son of the late baseball player Tug McGraw.
McGraw has released thirteen studio albums (eleven for Curb Records and three for Big Machine Records). 10 of those albums have reached number 1 on the Top Country Albums charts, with his 1994 breakthrough album Not a Moment Too Soon being the top country album of 1994. All of these albums have produced 65 singles, 25 of which have reached number 1 on the Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay charts. Three of these singles — "It's Your Love", "Just to See You Smile", and "Live Like You Were Dying" — were the top country songs of 1997, 1998, and 2004 according to Billboard Year-End. He has also won three Grammy Awards, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and three People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour with Faith Hill is the highest grossing tour in country music history, and one of the top 5 among all genres of music.
Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961), best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums—1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin', plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of Mercury Records before leaving Mercury in 1998. These albums all earned gold or higher certification, and produced several chart singles, including his debut "Should've Been a Cowboy", which topped the country charts and was the most played country song of the 1990s. The song has received three million spins since its release, according to Broadcast Music Incorporated.
Signed to DreamWorks Records Nashville in 1998, Keith released his breakthrough single "How Do You Like Me Now?!" that year. This song, the title track to his 1999 album of the same name, was the number one country song of 2000, and one of several chart-toppers during his tenure on DreamWorks Nashville. His next three albums, Pull My Chain, Unleashed, and Shock'n Y'all, produced three more number ones each, and all of the albums were certified multi-platinum. A second Greatest Hits package followed in 2004, and after that, he released Honkytonk University.
"Country Star"
Well I sure am tired of these coffee house gigs
Cause there ain't no money and there ain't no chicks
It's gettin harder and harder to get my kicks so I bought a little ticket to Nashville
Cause I wanna see my name up in neon lights drink pink champagne and party every night
All them lucky muthers up there livin the life man I gotta get my ass to Nashville
Cause
I wanna be a country star
and take it all way to far
drinkin free in every bar
just like Bocephus
A I think it'd be a cryin shame
not to have my own airplane
I wanna go up in flames me and my guitar
Man I wanna be a country star
Well I got a drinkin problem so I'll fit right in
Gonna sing me some hits and get some famous friends
I'll be ridin shotgun with Kenny, Faith, and Tim
And I wonder how they lived without me
I'll get "Big & Rich" rich and build a big ol' house
With a big ol' fence to keep the rif raf out
Call my old girlfriends say "how ya like me now"
C'mon baby tell me what ya love about me
I'm gonna be a country star
and take it all way to far
breakin all the young girls hearts
just like Keith Urban
Man I'm thinkin that sure sounds fun
Rockin out with Brooks and Dunn
All the way to number 1
Me and my guitar
Man I wanna be a country star
Playin golf with Vince and Willie
Hangin out with Carrie UNDERneath those big spotlights
YEAH YEAH
YEAH YEAH
I'm wanna be a country star
take it all way to far
breakin all the young girls hearts
just like Keith Urban
Man I think it sure sounds fun
Rockin out with Brooks and Dunn
All the way to number 1
Me and my guitar
Man I wanna be a country star
Country Star