Kenny Rogers To Receive The Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award At 2013 CMA Awards
Tonight (November 6), Kenny Rogers will be receiving the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award on the 47th Annual CMA Awards!
Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker and Jennifer Nettles will be performing a nearly 10-minute tribute to Kenny, showcasing some of his masterpiece classics.
I grew up listening to Kenny Rogers and am very happy to see he is getting this well-deserved recognition tonight. I did some investigating on Kenny’s stats through the years (pun intended).
KENNY ROGERS FAST FACTS:
He is the RIAA’s eighth best-selling male artist of all time with:
- 120 MILLION RECORDS SOLD WORLDWIDE
- One Diamond album (his Greatest Hits album has sold over 24 million copies worldwide)
- 19 Platinum albums
- 31 Gold albums
Amazingly, the three-time Grammy Award winner has charted a record within each of the last seven decades. Kenny has received hundreds of awards for his music and charity work, including:
- Three Grammys
- 11 People's Choice Awards
- 18 American Music Awards
- Eight Academy of Country Music Awards
- Five Country Music Association Awards (with 23 career nominations)
Kenny has recorded 24 number 1 songs!!!