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November 30, 2007 � Tickets for the stadium show will go on sale Saturday, Dec. 1, at 10 a.m. ET. This past year's show in Foxboro sold out in less than an hour, and tickets are expected to go just as quickly for the 2008 concert. "I know people don't usually think country music and New England," Kenny concedes. "When we first went in there, I'd not really played football stadiums―and we sold it out, and it rocked. It kinda amazed me and the guys." Keith Urban, rocker Sammy Hagar, LeAnn Rimes and Gary Allan join Kenny for the 2008 show. "Everybody on this bill knows how to rock," says Kenny, "and I think that's what these summer tours of ours are all about."
November 30, 2007 � Tickets for the stadium show will go on sale Saturday, Dec. 1, at 10 a.m. ET. This past year's show in Foxboro sold out in less than an hour, and tickets are expected to go just as quickly for the 2008 concert. "I know people don't usually think country music and New England," Kenny concedes. "When we first went in there, I'd not really played football stadiums―and we sold it out, and it rocked. It kinda amazed me and the guys." Keith Urban, rocker Sammy Hagar, LeAnn Rimes and Gary Allan join Kenny for the 2008 show. "Everybody on this bill knows how to rock," says Kenny, "and I think that's what these summer tours of ours are all about."
November 28, 2007 ― This year marks the sixth year that Kenny Chesney has played for more than a million fans, so it comes as no surprise that he's won his third Billboard all-genre touring award for top tour package.

Kenny earned the award for his Flip Flop Summer tour with special guests Sugarland, Pat Green, Brooks & Dunn and Sara Evans. The tour grossed more than $71.2 million in 55 shows, with more than 1.1 million tickets sold.

"People work really hard for their money...and even though I believe in really trying to keep my ticket prices down, I want to know that if they do spend the money to come to one of our shows, they feel like they got every penny's worth," Kenny says. "It's about the whole experience ― starting with tailgating in the parking lot before the doors open, then seeing some great music once the show begins."

As for this particular tour, Kenny says, "I've had some great tours and great bands out with me, but there was something about this package that just really set the bar and got the energy to a whole other level."

Kenny is currently planning his 2008 Poets & Pirates tour, which will feature special guest LeAnn Rimes.

Tim McGraw & Faith Hill's Jeep-sponsored Soul2Soul II tour also won a Billboard honor, the inaugural concert marketing and promotion award, which was determined by online voting
preteen and young teenage girls devoted to the Disney TV show "Hannah Montana" and the show's star, Miley Cyrus, are suing the singer's official fan Web site for allegedly promising them first dibs on concert tickets and leaving them empty-handed.

"I really don't want to be in the fan club anymore," said one of the plaintiffs, Mia Piazza, a 9-year-old from Pittsburgh.

Over in the principality of Prince, subjects are also rebelling. Three fan Web sites have banded together as "Prince Fans United" to fight the music performer's attempts to stop them from posting photos and other content related to him.

One of the sites declared: "We at prince.org will not stand for this and have joined forces with the other affected sites to tell our side of the story and stand up to what are, in our opinion, bullying tactics designed to silence freedom of speech."

By definition, members of fan clubs are passionate, but these days they also seem cranky and some are even at war with the performers they supposedly slavishly admire. Fan clubs today are online communities that vent on Internet message boards and gripe directly to performers about everything, including song lists, merchandise and the prices and availability of tickets. And when sounding off is met by dead air, fans sue, complain to consumer protection agencies and even plot concerted action on a global scale.

"There's all kinds of ways to be indignant," said Jerry M. Lewis, an emeritus professor of sociology at Kent State University, who studies fan behavior.

Ticket woes are a major source of anger. Average ticket prices for concerts keep rising, and many fans are priced out or forced to buy at exorbitant markups from brokers and other resellers. Last year, some Barbra Streisand fans were fuming when they learned she was staging her final concert tour ― this after they had already paid steep prices for her previous, supposedly, last-ever tour in 2000. (The average ticket cost nearly $300, according to Pollstar, a concert trade magazine ).

But Streisand fans are not unique. When any hot concert tour is announced, some fans are already seething.

"The attitude is, "How am I going to get taken advantage of this time?'" said Tim McQuaid, the president of Fan Asylum, a company that manages fan clubs, ticket sales and V.I.P. packages for artists such as Maroon 5 and Whitney Houston.

Fans often join a performer's "official" fan club for the specific benefit of having access to tickets before they go on sale to the general public. But some of the fan clubs have become suspect ― serving mainly as a profit center, charging membership fees that can reach more than $100 and making even more money selling "exclusive" merchandise and other items.

Mr. McQuaid, who has been managing fan clubs since 1980, beginning with the band Journey, said when the mission shifts from an emphasis on service to one of revenue, "You're just asking for trouble from the fan base."

Some MileyWorld members want their membership money back. They are suing the two companies that run the club for the artist, Interactive Media Marketing and Smiley Miley, which is owned by Ms. Cyrus.

Although MileyWorld has benefits like exclusive "webisodes" of the singer backstage, contests, games and access to her "secret diary," it was the offer "to do our best" to secure an allotment of concert tickets for members that persuaded Mia's mother, Debbie Piazza, to let her daughter join the club for $29.95.

Ms. Piazza, 32, who works for U.S. Steel adjusting invoices, said she had joined fan sites for Kenny Chesney and Bon Jovi to buy concert tickets and was successful in both cases. But with MileyWorld, she said, she found no tickets even when she logged on to Ticketmaster at the exact time they went on sale.

In defense, Miss Cyrus's representatives said that 70,000 of MileyWorld's 200,000 members were able to buy tickets, and issued a public statement: "MileyWorld members had far greater access to concert tickets than the general public and other fan clubs. The claim that the vast majority of MileyWorld members were unable to obtain concert tickets is simply false. MileyWorld will vigorously defend itself from the frivolous claims in the lawsuit."

Robert Peirce, the lawyer suing on behalf of members, said the site should have revealed the size of the membership at each concert location so that fans could have figured out their chances and made an informed decision about whether to fork over almost $30.

"I felt I was misled," Ms. Piazza said. "All I want is my $30 back and I hope they put some kind of disclaimer so it doesn't happen to somebody else again."

Fans have long come together in another type of club ― the free unofficial sites used to trade information about tickets and the artist. Most exist harmoniously with the official sites. But the informal sites can develop existences of their own, with members as loyal to each other as to the artist.

On their Web site, the leaders of Prince Fans United say they believe the performer is using copyright concerns to hide his real goal: "to stifle all critical