Rascal Flatts wraps “Unstoppable Tour” after playing for nearly 800,000 fans
Rascal Flatts (Associated Press file photo)
The decade’s top-selling and most awarded group in country music Rascal Flatts wrapped the final leg of the “Rascal Flatts American Living Unstoppable Tour,” sponsored by JCPenney with associate sponsor Hershey’s, Wednesday in Houston, Texas.
The tour played 57 shows during its run of June 2009 to March 2010 with fan attendance near 800,000. This total also includes the two sold-out stadium concerts at Chicago’s Wrigley Field and Columbus’ (Ohio) Crew Stadium last summer.
Rascal Flatts, which includes Joe Don Rooney of Picher, will take a little time off the road this spring to work on a new album and will soon announce their new summer tour, anticipated to launch in June. Hopefully, Rooney also will get a chance to spend some quality time with wife Tiffany Fallon and son Jagger Donovan, 21 month, as they prepare to welcome another baby in September.
Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Rooney have kicked off 2010 with a bang as they mark not only the beginning of a new decade but also celebrate 10 years of making great music together, becoming one of the hottest touring acts and the top country group of the new millennium. The band has delivered 11 No. 1 singles to the top of the chart and have more titles in Billboard’s Top 100 Songs of the Decade than any other group in the format.
Over 10 years, the band has sold more than 20 million albums and 25 million digital downloads, while all six of their studio albums made Billboard’s Top 100 Country Albums of the Decade listing. As the most awarded country group of the new millennium, Rascal Flatts has brought home nearly 40 trophies from the Academy of Country Music, American Music Awards, Country Music Association, People’s Choice Awards and more.
In concert, Rascal Flatts continues to be one of the hottest touring acts of the decade with more venue attendance records than any other country act. They have played 400 dates as a headline act, 700 total since 2000, with a ticket tally of nearly 6 million. Among these shows includes 3 consecutive sold-out performances at Madison Square Garden; the band also became the first and only country music act to sell out Wrigley Field.
The trio also has traveled to visit U.S. troops in Iraq on a United Service Organization tour and partnered with the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., to raise more than $3 million in the past few years.
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Love rascal flatts and all there music. I have seen them 4 times in concert twice in scranton pa and twice in philadelphia pa and cant wait till they come back to the area so i can go again. Best country group ever.