Kenny Chesney's Here and Now enters both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums at No. 1 this week. As my colleague Keith Caulfield reported on Sunday (May 10), it's Chesney's ninth No.
1 album on the all-genre Billboard 200, which enables him to tie Garth Brooks for the most No. 1 albums ever by a country artist.This potent debut makes Here and Now a serious candidate for a Grammy nomination for best country album.
That's shaping up as a highly competitive category this year, with such strong albums as Luke Combs' What You See Is What You Get, Miranda Lambert's Wildcard and Jon Pardi's Heartache Medication also vying for nominations.