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Twitter: kiady
Good morning ihearties!
Pam, thank you for the great recap on yesterday’s post!!
I can’t even imagine how great and fantastic the show was, already saw some pics and videos, Danny looks gorgeous and really happy! He was so lovely for singing Back At One to Meaghan (DanielJGokeyFan), i couldn’t understand everything he says on the video but it really touches me and brought tears to my eyes, Danny is an amazing person isn’t he?! She really deserved it!
Glad all the ihearts who were there were able to attend the show!
Can’t wait to read more recaps and see more pics and videos from yesterday’s show!
YAY! I am the first.
From the videos, the concert was incredible. I’ll just say one sentence. DANNY IS SO MERCIFUL. Looking forward to reading recaps.
I know steph
posted this late last night, but it is really a must see. MBD commercial from a fan. Only 15 seconds, yet to effective. I think it should be re-tweeted and seen by as many as possible. Perhaps even put as a separate blog post here, because it is from a male fan?
http://www.twitvid.com/4D10F
Aw Claudia, you beat me to it!
Twitter: kiady
Oh i forgot to say, MBD dropped from #10 to #11 on Itunes Top Country Albums in Portugal, i already put the link on my Facebook in order to try that my friends/family go there and buy the album.
Twitter: kiady
Hi bosman, lol sorry!!
Hi Claudia and Bosman! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Just checked the various charts and Danny’s album is still doing very well. Last night’s concert must have been an awesome experience and I was so happy to Danny’s hometown giving him such a warm welcome. It was moving to see Sophia’s sister being interviewed by the local TV station. Danny’s close ones must also feel quite overwhelmed by this all. I think we at Iheart have been prepared for Danny’s career taking off big time and can handle everything that is going on at the moment.
I’m actually very happy that Danny will have close friends in his band, because things are moving so fast that he has to have people who he can trust around him and share his feelings with.
I try to come back later to see if any of the Ihearts have “recovered” from their awesome concert experience enough to write a recap for the rest of us.
Have a great day!
Twitter: kiady
Hannele, that video of Sophia’s sister moved me too! And i totally agree about we have been prepared for Danny’s BIG career Lol yeah Danny needs to have his friends and reliable people around now it came to my mind when he asked to their “people” punch him if he becomes a “diva” LOL! Have a great Sunday
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As we end this wild week in Danny’s world the mediabase numbers are up.
Danny is still at #34 but has regained his spins and is up 49.
Twitter: kiady
Erika just posted Wisn’s website which has pictures from last evening’s show, love the 3rd pic the shine in his eyes and the little smile just perfect!
Hi everyone.
Danny is currently #34 on the 7 Day Rolling Chart and up 49 spins for the week. The countdown shows helped him regain his lost spins.
Glad to see Danny’s single regained it’s bullet on mediabase and will be up in spins for the published chart this week.
Also happy to see his album still at #1 on Itunes country chart and #2 on Itunes overall chart. I am not suprised that Almost Alice is #1 – I went to see the movie last night (also a Johnny Depp fan) and I really enjoyed it.
Can’t wait to get all the details from the Milgokeys at Danny’s mini-concert last night.
Have a great Sunday everyone.
Did everyone get to see Jan’s post that request from Danny on yesterday’s thread. She said that Danny asked his fans to go to Itunes and give his album positive ratings and reviews because there are a lot of negative reviews/ratings there right now.
Right now he has 553 5 star ratings on Itunes, but 129 one star ratings. I think that a lot of people that gave him one star probably don’t even own his album. And are just rating him that way because they don’t like him.
I can’t see anyone with much sense buying an album they thought was one star after they have had opportunities to listen to it free, on places like rhapsody.
So if anyone hasn’t rated and reviewed Danny’s album on Itunes you can go over there and leave a positive review and give him a good rating.
FOGS – I just tried to leave a comment but there is an issue with iTunes. Hope to leave one later. Thanks for the reminder.
Had a bad night last night (tried shopping and was in ALOT of pain when I got home) so I just got caught up with all the posts and twitters about Meaghan (DanielJGokeyFan) What a wonderful surprise and a truly genuine act of kindness. Could not happen to a more deserving person.
Twitter: pjgvet
Lol, I’m up early; still pumped from Danny’s concert and couldn’t sleep!
You can back out of iTunes and go back in as much as possible to leave a good rating. Its pretty obvious haters are trying to bring the ratings down; such jealousy.
We should add that to our daily list of things to do along with voting! Need to get it up another half star at least.
Glad to see he is still #1 in Country there and MBD is still #3 single. And #2 overall; that is pretty good still way up there; I think that Alice album is quite the competitor.
Marilyn; loved your recap! Sounds like your smaller crowd gave Danny tons of love!
Just saw the news video and his sister in law is so sweet. Made me cry just watching her. We all know that Sophia is looking down from heaven on Danny and smiling.
Twitter: kiady
Lizzy, i went to see Alice in the Wonderland yesterday’s evening too and i really liked it!
Fogs, i agree those people might have never heard his album.. it shouldn’t be that way, just the people who bought the album should be allowed to write a review and rate it!
Twitter: steph6449
Morning all, haven’t checked out the pics and videos yet but so happy to hear everyone had such a great time at the Milgokey concert
Glad Danny is now up spins again. That show with Kix Brooks is on here, they did play Danny at #40 and I saw something on twitter that another show I’ve never heard of also may have played MBD.
Added a review at iTunes, interesting Danny is aware enouugh of that to be bothered by those creepers
Pam,
Are you saying that if you close out Itunes and go back in, you can give Danny’s album another rating? If that is the case, we need to get busy getting that rating up. I noticed it was four stars and assumed the haters were visting and giving it a low rating. If Danny wants up to take care of it, then that is what we will do lol.
Twitter: steph6449
From AM920TheWOLF (AM920TheWOLF)
Great show! Thanks for coming and yes, Danny Gokey will be back at Summerfest. Details soon! http://bit.ly/93vIYl
Danny Gokey’s record release party at Turner Hall. http://am920thewolf.com/main.html http://bit.ly/c8BOs6
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This is the tweet where someone mentions another syndicated show that played MBD, anyone familiar with it?
@DannyGokey Dude, they played your song on Coast to Coast AM! Millions of listeners.
about 4 hours ago via UberTwitter
Twitter: steph6449
From AM920TheWOLF (AM920TheWOLF)
Great show! Thanks for coming and yes, Danny Gokey will be back at Summerfest. Details soon! http://bit.ly/93vIYl
Twitter: steph6449
This is the tweet where someone mentions another syndicated show that played MBD.
@DannyGokey Dude, they played your song on Coast to Coast AM! Millions of listeners.
about 4 hours ago via UberTwitter
Anyone familiar with it? The only thing I find online is this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_to_Coast_AM
which seems kind of odd to be playing MBD. Heh. But I guess fans can come from all sorts of places
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if things a bell with anyone (radio show in California possibly?), maybe tweet her in support of Danny
caligirlkt6: On Waking Up With Allie-T I need to put a spotlight on a country artist! Who should it be? @bysbaby? @dannygokey? @carter twins
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This gentleman has a twitter bio that says he is “BBC Worker and writer for Country Music People Magazine!” That would be nice if Danny got a writeup in Country Music People Magazine.
Streva86: Working on articles on Danny Gokey and Lady Antebellum! Pulling double duty this issue ya’ll
Twitter: kiady
i’m creating a new Itunes account, thanks to Ana i’m creating this one which allows me to rate and review in the US store
thank u Ana for the link on yesterday’s post!
Don’t mention it Claudia, am glad to help.
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Steph, if this is the shhow that they are talking about it’s an even stranger spin.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
Seems to be a talk show about he weider aspectes of news, including UFO’s.
Twitter: kiady
I guess i have to try later, i can’t switch my itunes store from Portugal to the US, this morning i did it but now it says it says “Itunes is temporally unavailable”
In addition to making sure we rate and review Danny’s album again on Itunes, don’t forget to review and rate Danny’s album on Amazon. I had pre-ordered from Amazon but forgot to rate and review it – I just did it now.
Twitter: steph6449
Isn’t that odd about the Coast to Coast show, huh.
One more blogger’s opinion. The first part is kinda annoying but overall it’s favorable on the actual songs.
http://ydblogz.com/chatter/?p=8186
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This is touching at the OS
http://www.dannygokey.com/node/1585
Good morning, everyone! I rated and reveiwed Danny’s album on itunes. I had to download new software in order to be able to give it a reveiw. I think I just had old itunes software on this computer. I never use itunes, to be honest.
I’m surprised that Danny has enough time in his schedule to even be aware of such things.
Twitter: Upsnodowns
Good Morning! – I have to once again thank Pam for the recap and mention again how wonderful Danny is to his fans. He really does show the love! Meaghan was so overwhelmed with joy because Danny sang to her! If it were me, I would probably still be crying today! Meaghan must be on cloud nine!
I posted on ITunes. Can u do it more than once or do they only allow one comment from an account?
Steph and Danip. Maybe Danny should be on that Coast to Coast show! We all know he is a rare phenomenon AND his talent is outta this world!!!!
Aww, Steph, that message from the guy on the OS was very touching. I do wish Danny could see it, both since the guy seemed to really want Danny to get that message, and because I think it makes Danny feel good to know that he is helping other people.
If anyone reviews and rates his album on Amazon, I would suggest that they post in the positive threads over there and not in the “This guy is so conceited” thread. I have seen Danny fans go in that thread to defend him, but I think it would be best to just comment in the positive threads on Amazon, which will push the “conceited” thread, down so that it’s less noticeable.
And maybe some of us can create some more positive threads for him over there about him and some of his songs.
Twitter: Upsnodowns
I am stilL at my In-Laws in Wisconsin, wishing I would get back to Chicago to see Danny at the Best Buy in Orland Park! I made my husband promise we’d at least be home to watch the Oscars – I’ve never missed a year! Was hoping he would say we could leave this morning, which would have meant seeing Danny and the Oscars! But family first! (although the amount of time I spend in Dannyland makes feel like Danny IS family!) Now I’m hoping to at least see Danny in Rockton or Summerfest!
Hopefully we’ll be seeing some more video and pics coming from last night!
Twitter: steph6449
Some more pics here. That’s great that the radio guy is confirming about Summerfest.
http://am920thewolf.com/pages/Gregory.html
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Brian Mansfield with new post on Danny
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2010/03/danny-gokeys-my-best-days-are-ahead-of-me-the-story-behind-the-song/1?csp=34
Twitter: pjgvet
Yes, you can rate the album on iTunes (although it was having some issues the second time I tried to rate it today) as long as you close it out and reopen.
That is how the haters voted the rating down. Thee aren’t even 100 some negative reviews, so they just go in and keep rating 1 star.
It is sad Danny sees that. I’m glad he mentioned it to you Jan, thanks for letting us know.
I commented on that Idol Chatter; its obvious the guy isn’t a Danny fan; yet couldn’t deny the album is good.
Thanks for posting that DGO story STeph; that was so sweet.
Twitter: steph6449
Cheryl & any other ihearties near that aera, I hope you’ll be able to see Danny in Chicago area today? He sang six songs when I saw him at the Best Buy in Virginia Monday, definitely worth the trip.
Twitter: kiady
Found these 2 pics from last night
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjfoeckler/4414140514/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjfoeckler/4414140518/
love the second one
That is a nice picture that Brian Mansfield has up of Danny in his newest article about Danny and his single.
Twitter: Upsnodowns
This picture from The Wolf is of Danny talking to Meaghan!!!!
http://www.mighty92.com/cc-common/mlib/1233/03/1233_1267970797.jpg
Twitter: pjgvet
Cheryl, I’m in that picture! LOL. I am just to the left of the girl in the green shirt (that is Funnymonkie from Twitter). The gentleman to Megan’s right is the legally blind Vietnam vet who helped her raise her hand everytime Danny was touching peoples hands!
Twitter: pjgvet
You can also see Cherie (footballluvinglady) just to the left of Megan, and you can see the back of Latrece’s head at the bottom of the pic (Has black hair in a bun)
Twitter: Upsnodowns
I also recognize some other people from Twitter in the WOLF picture! They must gave been the first in line to get those spots up front! Now that’s what I call fandom – waiting in line for 6-8 hrs to see Danny!!!!
Twitter: Upsnodowns
Pam I thought that was you!!!! No wonder you were able to see Danny’s belly peeking out! What a great view! You got an nice close view of his tight jeans, too!
Twitter: kiady
Aww you ihearties who attended the were very close from the stage!!
Twitter: Upsnodowns
Pam is that MissLisa1970 with the crown and glasses?
Twitter: kiady
attended the Show lol missed the word sorry
Twitter: pjgvet
Cheryl; oh yes I did!
It was funny; Megan being blind has good senses. She described to us in detail Danny’s physique and clothes afterward and also said his jeans were very tight! Now how she determined that, I do not know………….
Twitter: kiady
13 pictures from last night’s show:
http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/photos/galleries/86721717.html?c=y&index=1&page=0
Twitter: pjgvet
Cheryl, no that was some little girl who pushed her way up in front of us later in the concert (as well as the two teens right in front of me- they were quite rude and almost bowled Michelle’s daughter over and body slammed me. Some people just have no manners when they are caught up in their fangirliness unfortunately). Miss Lisa is further to the right off the picture. She has long red hair and glasses if you happen to catch her in other pics.
People don’t always fit their on line personnas; she was quite sedate in person!- I know you are familiar with her ribald, funny tweets!
Twitter: Upsnodowns
Pam LOL I saw Meaghan’s description and I wondered how she knew that his jeans were tight! I thought she must have run her hand up and down his thigh LOL
Shouldn’t Deb Hanson be in that pic somewhere?
Twitter: kiady
in the 11th pic in the middle isn’t that Cindy and Latrece?
Twitter: steph6449
Aww, MissLisa is sedate? She may be going to the Merriweather concert in Columbia MD with Shirl & her hubby & me. I saw some pics where she got to meet Danny though, she looked very happy about it. That may have been the first time she’s seen him live anywhere.
Twitter: pjgvet
Cheryl, I think Deb might be kind of behind me?
Claudia, thanks for those pics; they are great!
Pic #4 There is Miss Lisa she stands out in the turquoise shirt, long red hair
Pic #11 Lots of ihearties- Kristie, Toni, Jason, Jan, Cindy, Latrece and Cori!
Twitter: steph6449
Claudia, those are great pics
Twitter: pjgvet
Steph, I guess I shouldn’t have called her sedate; was just expecting a party animal, lol after following her on Twitter! She is a very nice person; that is so great you can go with Shirl and Lisa, how fun!!!
Well, RL calls finally, have a great Sunday everyone!
Twitter: kiady
Pam, yes i was wondering if that was Cori or not, guess i was right lol already saw Jan too, where is Toni? i don’t see her
Twitter: Upsnodowns
Thanks Pam for pointing out all the fans! Everybody sure looks excited on all those pics!
Let me also say that in addition to posting comments on ITunes and Amazon, it’s important to post comments when someone like Brian Mansfield writes an article re Danny – even if it is just to thank Brian or ask him a question.
Brian Mansfield has always been a great supporter of Danny’s but important than that, he is also a Nashville insider. It was Brian Manfield that Joe Galante, the CEO of Nashville had do the official press release when Danny was signed.
Twitter: steph6449
That thread at Brian Mansfield’s blog about Danny’s sales projections has a ton of comments on it.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/comments/2010/03/where-will-danny-gokeys-album-debut/1
Have to laugh at the person (not a Danny fan, I think) who is asking about the sales impact in stores if someone goes in and hides CDs for artists they don’t like (they confess doing this in the past, so odd), or if CDs get stolen off the racks and not purchased. Not sure what Brian thinks of being asked those questions, lol.
And interesting there is a comment from any amyjb78 who I thought was dissing on Danny’s songs in earlier posts on Brian’s blog. Today she says she got the CD and thinks it is the best one from AI8. (I don’t think that is either of the Amy’s who post sometimes here.)
Twitter: steph6449
That blogger has the CMT Chart up for voting again. You can vote for Danny here.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GQ2GVCN
Danny won his category last week.
http://cmlchart.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/cml-top-10-for-2000-to-2009-now-completed-cml-chart-interactive-updated/
I saw the video of Danny singing to Meaghan–what a huge heart he has! I would have fainted if that were me.
I’m glad everyone had such a great time last night–ten hours on line, huh? Well, Danny is worth the wait. Wish I could have been there.
I can’t stop listening to Danny’s album. I’ll say it again–it’s really a superior product, flawlessly produced, and I now think Danny has by far the best recording voice I ever heard. Simon saw potential of him early on–and he didn’t always know how to use his voice on the show–but he has made enormous strides and I actually think he has a better voice than David Cook–something that I am saying now for the first time. I didn’t think he could ever surpass Cook in terms of ability and success, but I think he just did.
Now he’ll be starting to write his own songs too, if he hasn’t already. I would love to see him whip out a guitar at some point.
Besides, these songs are catchy and stick in your head. Every single song could be a hit. There are few albums I feel that way about.
I’m so excited about how huge Danny is going to become.
He does look very tired though–and that worries me. Danny is an intense person and there are times I worry about the toll all this sudden success may be taking on him, and if he’s really had time to process his loss. I know Danny is a strong person, but he looks like he needs a rest. I don’t know if he will get one for awhile though.
I posted this last night but it was late so I’m not sure if anyone saw it.
An Adam fan posted this on Danny’s IDF forum:
Just stopping by to wish Danny and you guys a happy and robust first week of sales, and hopefully more! I’m very glad to hear that his estimated sales have increased (and I’ll think it’ll be as high or higher than the latest predictions). I think debuting at this time of year and with his single moving up the charts quickly, he can sell consistently well throughout the year. Most importantly is the quality of the album and all signs point to a great debut effort that was worth the wait. original.gif
I’d like to think that when one Idol does well, it helps the entire franchise look better in the eyes of the industry and Danny deserves success just as much as any other Idol. Congrats.
Twitter: steph6449
How do you have a line to get into a Best Buy store, interesting.
@dannygokey ur hot stuff today…there’s already line outside and its only 11 am
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ScottDolphin {with FM106}
Crazy Danny Gokey show. Now I know what it was like to go to a Beatles concert. I couldn’t hear myself talk.
about 1 hours ago via web
@Nursetaz Wow! Was I even up at 10:30 Saturday morning? Ha…sorry. I’m glad you got in as hundreds didn’t.
40 minutes ago via web
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{someone in South Africa seeing Danny on AI9 airing there now}
Country?? How does Gokey go country? Oh well, least he’s still a hottie
Twitter: steph6449
This is the article that goes with the JSOnline pics. Very very nice, and nice and long
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/musicandnightlife/86754767.htmlhttp://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/musicandnightlife/86754767.html
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definitely seems to be a line for Danny in Chicago, see 3 or 4 more peeps tweeting about it
and it started raining/drizzling….all for you 
@dannygokey all of us are outside waiting for you
Pigvet – thank you for the nice comment on my recap. I enjoyed writing it.
I see your Randal is at it again. I like his almost casual sounding kinds of defense for Danny on that article that was bashing Danny about not being country, but liked his album anyway.
I left a post there too but it went into moderation. I think because I used the word “jackass”. But I used it in a good way. lol. I said that Danny was allowed to change his mind, because my mother always told me: “Only a jackass doesn’t change his mind.”
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steph fixed you link, looked like it copied twice
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/musicandnightlife/86754767.html
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Hi everyone! I’m glad that there are so many great pictures of the event last night. You can tell that the atmosphere was just electrifying!
I will make it a point to go in and out of iTunes a bunch of times to help get that rating up. I wish there were not so many crazy people in the world. Do people really think that the artist that they’re supporting would be proud of them for that kind of behavior? Maybe some would, I don’t know. I know Danny wouldn’t.
He looks and sounds as if he is holding up well to everything that’s going on. I know we all worry about him but I think this is a time when his extroverted personality style is really a benefit. That personality type generally gets energy from being around people, it charges them up. For a more introverted type like Kris, it generally is much more draining. I think Adam is more in the middle, like me. All that being said, I do hope that Danny keeps enough time aside for himself, to just rest and reflect and take it all in. It must feel almost overwhelming sometimes. It must have given him a lot of joy to feel all the love from his hometown crowd last night, I’m sure everyone who was there will never forget it!
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I was reading over at MJs, and I find it funny that one poster seems to need to dscount everything Danny does. If he working hard Kris & Adam worked harder, and I don’t think any of those two did near the work Danny has sone pre-release. If Danny is at the top of a chart either they were higher for longer or they released during a harder time. I sometimes want to respond to this but believe it would start something and go downhill from there.
I do wonder if they will ever give it a rest because they really aren’t getting the suppoert they seek anymore over there.
Grrr. As I sat here thinking about what that writer said, makes me smoking angry. His premise of the article is he likes Danny’s Album year, but it’s only good because Danny had Mark Bright as a producer and was handed great songs.
How blind some people are! Who wanted Mark Bright? Danny! Who picked the songs? Danny! Who sang them with so much heart and soul? Danny that’s who. It amazes me that some people refuse to see what’s in front of their face.
I’m also getting tired of Country Snobs who have stupid criteria for accepting a song or singer as country.
I’ve been a country radio listener for 35 years, at least, grew up with my folks always listening to country, but I have to admit that I don’t care for at least two-thirds of what I hear anymore. It all sounds the same.
Then along comes Danny and I was so thrilled that he went country. (Sorry girls, but I was on my knees about it) because I wanted him to get Mark Bright knowing that Danny could trust him and he wouldn’t be mislead. Also, I knew it would be a comfortable fit for him and could sing about his faith or anything else he wanted to from his life experiences.
I know there are country snobs out there, but Danny can overcome because he fits so perfectly in to that genre.
Danny’s going to be the next country new artist of the year.
Sorry for the rant. I’m going now. bbl
Twitter: pjgvet
Yes, Danip, Girlygirl makes it a point of discounting doesn’t she! I see Steph didn’t let her get away with it though.
There is no way those two (Kradamm) gave what DAnny gives, singing multiple songs several times a day several days in a row. I am 100% positive of that. Adam even went on vocal rest during the AI concert.
Probably best to ignore or just counter like Steph did! They just make me laugh these days.
Twitter: kiady
lol that tweet of someone in South Africa was kind of funny
I just saw the pics from JS Online of Turner Hall last night! It appears that there were no seats, it was standing room only in the theatre….like one huge mosh pit! Yikes! After fans stood in line for maybe 6 to 8 hours, and then had to stand all through the concert inside, that just amazes me!
I’ll bet there was a real rush to get to the front of the stage once the doors opened!
Haven’t been able to read any of the recaps from last night, been pretty sick with this virus I can’t get rid of. Will have to come back when I can to catch up! Glad everyone had such a great time!
Twitter: pjgvet
Is anyone else having a lot of problems with iTunes?
At first it was saying their was a problem with it. Now it won’t take my or my daughter’s password.
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Dani, that one poster is a busy little bee, she is always buzzing around. Every once in awhile I catch her saying something flat out wrong, and then she gets encouraged to get that toe back over the line. She makes stuff up sometimes but is not the worst by any means. It hasn’t been too bad there lately though. There are still a few who will try to start it up every once in awhile, but you are correct, it’s not getting support. Even Kris and Adam fans have started telling people to give it a rest.
Twitter: kiady
Pam, i am! i was trying to create a new account which would allow me to rate and review on the US store in order to create it i need to change my Itunes store from the Portuguese one the the US, this morning i was able to do that but since lunch time i’m trying to switch the stores and my Itunes keeps saying it is not available temporally
Hey! Sounds like the concert was off the chain yesterday!!! That’s awesome! Glad everyone that went had a great time.
I watched the video of when Danny was talking to Meaghan. Aww…that was really sweet. I guess I can assume that was her crying in the background, right?
I don’t blame her. She deserved that love from Danny and I’m really happy for her.
Plus I heard a lot of people got turned away and couldn’t get in and there were some other problems as well. What was up w/that?
Twitter: kiady
Ana are you there? i need some help LOL i could switch the stores already and now i’m creating the account according to the link you posted, but i have a problem it says “Select None as the payment” but Visa is already selected i can’t “unselect” it, so it keeps me asking the card number and code etc what do i do? i’m stuck lol
rowansmom,
You are right. Danny looks like he really needs a rest, but I also agree with Josie in that his excitement that he is able to put his music out there keeps him going.
He is really so busy. I do not know if Kris, Adam and Allison are doing multiple appearances every day, or if indeed if Danny is to be recognized in the country genre he must work triple hard and be ultra nice about it.
I say let him work hard. I was worried about his voice during the rock week – dream on and renegade, plus homecoming and the anthem. I watched the homecoming concert stream and felt how his throat was so sore. But he soldiered on. I felt so sorry for him and so glad that he gives all he’s got.
Twitter: pjgvet
Claudia, its finally working for me now!
Twitter: kiady
Pam, yes it’s working with me too, but i’m having problems creating that account lol
Erika are you there? once you managed to create that account how did you pass the “payment section”? lol
Twitter: steph6449
As we were looking at comparisons for Danny’s album sales, here is another that occurs to me, as hater-peeps often brought up Phil as an example of someone who (supposedly like Danny) was not accepted in Nashville and wound up in CCM.
According to a quote at idf for 2008
31 PHIL STACEY LYRIC STREET 15,772
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Just to carry this a bit further and I’m bored today, I went back to catch up on the new posts from yesterdays Headlines. It seems there is some account of Kris doing a show with Keith Urban and the conjecture that he could crossover to Country.
Now I am all for expanding ones horizon, but do they really believe that because Danny is seeing some success in the genre that it is easy. As we have seen with some of the reviews crossover is not readily accepted going the other way so no way will they tolerate looking for sales with a pop album. This is a theme I have seen repeated in the last week in most Danny threads that because Kris is from the South that would make him a perfect fit, and Danny is intruding. I think that most people miss the point about Country and get caught up in the Honky-Tonk aspects of Blake Shelton, they think this is what country music is. Booth Kris and Danny have made their choices and will reap the sucesses or failure based on how they handle them.
Forgive this long post, but reading the threads from other sites and the occassional review puts me on a soapbox. My hope is after the reviewers get over their biases about the “twang” and really listen to the music they will see that it embodies the same values that Country music has alway set out.
BTW I think most have forgotten that this was the same rection people had to Josh Gracin back on idol in 2003. He was a young man from Michigan who had not been below the Mason-Dixon line, and sang R&B music. The difference between him and Danny was that he affected a twang, which to me was disengenious to say the least. He minor success in the genre was short lived and he is trying to make his way back, which is a bit harder when you change who you are to find success (he was/is a very nice young man) a problem I don’t think Danny will face.
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Bosman, Helio-
I think Danny is doing fine. He really didn’t look too tired to me. And I thought his voice sounded great; considering the past two weeks or more!
I think he is type A and thrives on being busy, busy. Remember his normal 12 or more work day before AI??? He is used to it.
As long as he takes care of his voice.
Dani-
No ‘problems” at the concert really.
The restaurant staff were rude because they were extremely busy with a Marquette AND Bucks basketball game back to back (Turner Hall is across from the Arena so it is the place to eat), so they had no patience for fans and would not let us just sit and have coffee (very rude to deny Megan that). But there were plenty of other places to go and no one suffered, lol. I did write them today to complain and tell them they better hope Megan doesn’t contact the ADA lawyers.
People just love drama.
Someone did faint in the autograph line; not sure why!
300-400 people were turned away from the concert because it only held 980 fans I think. They must have shown up right when the doors opened (silly people!). I feel bad they did not get in; but a sold out concert is a sold out concert!
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Hey Everyone – Jason here. I just wanted to let everybody know that my wife, son and I had an amazing time and experience at the Milwaukee hometown concert with Danny Gokey yesterday 3/6/10 (a day I will never, ever forget). I have a huge recap I want to post. I will try to get it on here later today. Didn’t get the greatest pics or videos but that was okay with me this time because for once I just wanted to enjoy the show and watch Danny sing. *********Plus, I can now finally say that I have actually met Danny!!!! and he is the nicest, nicest guy ever. I will write everything to you guys a little later. I hope eventually everybody will get a chance at some point to meet him (even people on other continents). By the way, the videos that were posted of Meaghan and Danny only show so much but unless you were at the show, what Danny did for Meaghan was unbelievable. People were crying for Meaghan and with Meaghan (including me and all the ihearties that were there). I already had such huge respect for Danny, but after what I/others experienced with Danny and Meaghan at the show, he will always have my utmost respect. I also had so much fun meeting new people/and the rest of my iheart family that I had met up with in Grafton and on Twitter. Be back later to post! Jason <3
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It doesn’t bother me if any of these folks need to work hard to sustain and build from the recognition they gained through AI. I think that will just help them in the long term.
I’m not sure about Kris, but I don’t have a lot of sense if Allison is working it that hard on a week to week basis–if not, could explain some of her underwhelming results to date with sales, airplay, and just keeping her name out in public. With Adam, seems like he has been handed a lot of opportunities vs. slogging through an ongoing grind of stops around the country. I’m sure he must be pretty busy lately though with his overseas agenda.
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Danipp; how interesting- I had no idea Josh Gracin affected a twang! So many people point to him as being more authentic than Danny- WOW! Good defense material there.
Steph; very interesting how 15k albums in 2008 was bad for Phil but it is good for Josh Thompson this year!
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Pam,that’s so rude from the restaurant staff
Jason, that’s great! And thank you we all appreciate the time and effort on your recap
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Jason, if you are still here- I saw you lifting your son up and Danny grabbed his hand while he was singing. So cute!
I did not take pics either; I missed a lot at the last events I attended trying to take pics for others; I just really wanted to savor this moment also
Pam- that sucks that the restaurant staff were mean like that, especially to Meaghan! I understand that something else was going on besides the concert, but no need to take it out on y’all. I’ve worked in the restaurant business so I know how “witchy” they can be. But, all in all, sounds like it was a good time
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DaniP, I read that about Kris and Keith Urban. Struck me very funny as Kris really distanced himself pretty firmly from country music when it came about that he did his number with Keith at the AI finale. And his fans were all in a bother that they put those two together.
I don’t remember if Kris said he doesn’t like country music, or just that it was not for him. But seems he was pretty clear on it. And his poppy/rappy LLWD number doesn’t seem much to me that he’s angling for consideration in country. The Keith Urban gig seems to be in Las Vegas where Kris did a couple of shows recently, maybe it is just a mixed type of format for the evening they are appearing. I can’t imagine Kris touring with Keith on any regular basis. Apart from whether Kris would want to or would have any fanbase to make that sensible, there are dozens of country artists who would feel they should be considered for that spot.
The JoBros rumor actually made more sense to me in a funny way
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Pam/Claudia – gotta run to get over to my in-laws, but I wanted to quickly say that I have a huge recap I will post later. I feel like I have so much to say because the experience was like none other….
Pam – Actually my wife (who actually has worse back issues than I do – most likely she is gonna have to have back surgery) lifted him up and Danny grabbed Ethan’s hand….Ethan is still on cloud nine right now and he still can’t stop talking about everything. The joy that Danny brought to my 5 year old son was worth every moment we stood outside in the cold waiting all day long. Also, I agree, this time I just wanted to forget the cameras and taking videos and just enjoy the experience and actually take everything all in! C-ya all later, gotta run!
I kinda mentioned this in my last post upthread, but didn’t really ASK: Were there no seats once everyone got into the theatre? Just standing room only? Even after standing in line all day?
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Jason, awwwww. Look forward to your huge recap, and very happy you and your family had such an amazing experience and got to meet Danny, especially after a rough time lately.
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Nice for Danny
Its freaking packed at best buy
Listening to Danny’s CD as I set here sipping green tea and eating toast and I can’t believe how much I am liking “Get Away.” I really like it where he holds that long high note towards the end. That may be a hit single.
I thinks it’s great the way his songs from the album are selling too. The most amazed that I am is how well “I Still Believe” is doing. Although I do like it, but Danny has so many really wonderful songs on his CD that ISB is down the list, for me. If it keeps doing really well as it is, will they release that as a single?
On second thought, probably not because it would put him in the Christian market and that’s not where they want him to go. But I am really surprised, because I like IWNSG or GA or “Crazy Not To” a lot better.
Glad his songs are doing so well.
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Yes Pam josh did affect a accent but he did portray himself as “Country” on Idol to not so great results most times. That maybe why he was more readily accepted because although both he and Danny snag about the same amout of identifiable country songs Josh did wearing a Cowboy hat. Simon had a field day with that and basically told him he didn’t buy it. When you listen to josh speak just like a lot of the modern country artist they do not speak with an accent but for some reason they sound like they came out of the hills (no offense to anyone from the hills)when they sing. I believe it is because it has become so ingrained in them that in order to be a success ya gotta have a twang that it has become comical.
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agree with this person, that is cool
http://twitpic.com/177xue
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Jason, aww that’s so cute how your son can’t stop talking about it
I do think Kris does work hard, but I don’t see him as the type of personality to go out and make things happen for himself. He’s more like point me in the direction of what I need to do.
I agree, I don’t get the impression that Allison is working above and beyond on a day in, day out basis.
I do think Adam works hard – more from the perspective that he works at getting his name out there – even though at times it has consequences. But he did make a living working in Hollywood for 9 years – and that isn’t always the easiest thing to do.
Danny seems to be having the time of his life. He is brimming with excitement and confidence and taking full advantage of the opprotunity in front of him. I am sure the Idols from Season 9 watching Thurs, were all thinking how they can where they are today – to what Danny is doing.
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Love the poster!
Love the packed Best Buy!
Maybe having news coverage of the packed Milgokey concert helped people get there early in Chicago.
Kris and country?! What the heck. IMO, his voice is way too high and thin. Don’t see that at all. But I guess anything is possible….
Doesn’t seem like that would be a smart move though; putting a second AI into country from the same season, and Kris has already put out music in the pop genre? Can’t see him wanting to do it anyway.
Twitter: kiady
Steph, oh it looks really big!
If i saw a a poster like that i would ask if they could give me the poster lol
well once a friend of mine saw a poster of a band she use to love and asked to the staff of Fnac (a store which sells music/dvd’s/computer’s/games etc) if they could give her the poster after they remove it from the store, they said they were not allowed to do it…it’s kind of silly because when the “promotion” ends i don’t think they keep it and they won’t use it again..
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Just checked out the link from MJs about Kris and Keith and when I went to the web page it said at the bottom “2 hours ago; Kris Allen removed from the line up”
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Claudia; we aren’t going to read in the international news about a young Portuguese woman stealing a poster are we??
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pic from best buy
http://tweetphoto.com/13614366
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Pam, LOL well if they put a Danny poster in the Portuguese stores, you can be sure that i’ll do anything to get one for me!!
if it happen to be stolen it will be haha
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I am G, your comment about the S9 contestants made me think of something I saw at mj’s yesterday. I had just watched the video where Danny was asked to give advice to other contestants, and he said to have a plan and execute it and don’t wait around for someone else to do it for you. Then I read the exit interviews of the people who just got voted off. I remember John Park’s in particular, he basically said that he was going to go home and wait to see what offers he got. I hope he watches Danny’s video.
About Kris, I think he is figuring it out. I think his wife probably helps him, I haven’t seen her a lot but she strikes me as being a very competent person. I don’t think she seems the type to push him one way or another but she probably helps him figure out what he wants to do. About him potentially going country, I do remember him saying during the show run a definite “no”. But he was asked in an interview not too long ago if there are other genres he would consider exploring, and he did say country. I could see that. He did a beautiful job on his Garth Brooks cover of “To Make You Feel My Love”.
Is that Jason’s little boy in that JS photo #11? In the plaid jacket? That is an adorable kid! So cute!
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I guess Kris’s career touring with Keith Urban has come to a quick end, funny. Wonder who made a mistake with that.
I never followed Josh Gracin (for a while, actually I was confusing him with Jost Turner). That’s interesting about him and the pseudo-twang with a cowboy hat coming out of Detroit.
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Josie, that was one of the performances of Kris that I really did like, along with Falling Slowly. His Beatles covers and so forth did nothing for me, just ~ok.
But I did like the ballads when he would slow things down and just sing in a very simple way. The Rat Pack song he chose was another in that vein, but not as well-sung.
Funny if he is saying now he would consider country. He’d be better to just stick with where he’s going and keep focus to carry that as far as he can. He has a single that is about to go platinum, and his album is doing all right though below expectations for an AI winner.
I was just in Walmart and noticed there were no more copies of Danny’s CD so I asked why and was told they are selling like hotcakes! They can’t keep them in stock. The same thing in Target the other day, and I also stopped in at Kmart and there was just one left–but guess what–they were playing Danny’s CD! I almost keeled over from glee.
I don’t know if he’s just extra popular here in NC or if this is the case everywhere. I would like everyone to ask about Danny’s sales when they are in their record stores/big box stores. It seems they aren’t shipping enough for the demand, but that’s great that they can’t keep them in stock. I bet RCA only shipped so many the first week as a test–to see how well they would sell. No doubt they will ship more as there is demand for them.
I called it a long time ago. Daughtry of S8. I’m good at this.
FWIW, I wasn’t interested in any drama…I just wanted Mark Bolin to get some recognition for what he did last night. He DM’d me asking what DanielJGokeyfan’s first name was. Then he let me know that he texted Danny and his sisters because he was SO mad that Meaghan had been treated poorly. He said it just was not reprensentative of the people of Milwaukee.
I’m just glad that the story had a happy ending and I couldn’t be more thrilled for Meaghan. She’s a sweet person and deserved that moment. I’m sure she’ll treasure it forever.
A fan video singing MBD along with Danny, really nice to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx2jIY8AO5I
She also has another one on her quest for Danny’s CD. This one has some LOL elements.
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Hi everybody, just got back from Milwaukee. Toni and I received a tour of Milwaukee from our Kristie before Toni flew back to NY. It is truly a beautiful city. We are so pumped that its confirmed that Danny will return to his hometown for its biggest music festival!
Kristie called me minutes ago and told me to turn to page 2 of the Milwaukee paper (I picked up a copy because it had a nice sized picture of Danny/concert in the local section). I burst out laughing–it shows the Ihearties at Turner Hall and I’m smiling big and holding my I<3Danny Gokey–WI Pride. Gosh its a good thing its not the Madison paper. I didn't know if I showed the link to my daughter, but I did send it off to my kids in an email link with the great concert review.
Danny was fantastic last night. I'm so glad all of you are responding quickly on rating MBD –I'm sure its a relief/comfort to him to know that if he asks we'll jump to the task–and a whole lot of other good Gokey things. It was sad that he was so aware of the bad comments. He said something to us about these negative people being fixated on him. (Not his exact words, but that was the gist of it.)
Great to hear that chicago is showing up big, too. Yes the ihearties were there REALLY early yesterday. Toni and I were 6-8 people from the front of the line (at 8:30 AM)But somehow with line jumpers, we were about 30 back by the time the lines opened–but none the less, we got GREAT views of Danny! (30 out of 1000 is pretty darn good!) It was a long wait, but seemed to go fast–until 4PM when it got colder, the buildings put us in the shade and we couldn't move from our spot anymore.
I'll put together a companion re-cap, soon. jan
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Helio, time will tell if Danny will be the Daughty of S8 but it looks hopeful for him/us! You are good at his
Thanks for the report on CD supply! My hubbie just went to Target and I asked him to check on the supply, but I have a feeling he didn’t.
Sorry I keep calling you Helio, Rowansmom; I have known you as Helio for too long!
Twitter: kiady
Helio, that’s great!! yeah!
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
steph, perhaps Kris just meant as a collaboration. I do think that he wants to be creative and do things that people don’t necessarily expect from him. That can be risky but once he gets further along the road and builds more support he will be able to do more of that.
I agree with you, I liked quite a few of Kris’ performances on the show. But I think the only time he was my favorite of the night was Motown night. I remember writing somewhere that I would have never guessed that he would be my favorite on Motown night, but he was. That was when he did “How Sweet It Is”, and I thought it was really good. Most people loved Adam’s performance that night of “Tracks of my Tears”, but for some reason I didn’t really like it all that much. I thought it was very smart for him to do that as his next move after “Ring of Fire” though. I thought Danny was really cute doing “Get Ready”, although I remember hearing him say later that he wished he hadn’t done that song.
Danny would be really good on a lot of Motown classics. I have an album of Michael McDonald doing Motown covers, and I really love it. I hope Danny does that later in his career, he would just kill on some of those songs. I think if he ever performed “All in Love is Fair” that people would basically just collapse in the floor, it would be incredible.
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bosman, wow that girl singing MBD it’s a huge fan of robert pattinson isn’t she? lol
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Darn it lost my post!
Briefer this time:
Thanks for all that our responding to Danny’s request to rate MBD–It is sad that he knows about it. He is said something to us about how he knows some negative people on fixated on him and his career. Just plain sad.
Kristie just called–the Ihearties picture with me holding up the I<3Danny Gokey- WI Pride sign made page two of the Milwaukee paper this morning! I burst out laughing when I saw our picture with the caption: Gokey Mania…. When does the Gokey Addiction rehap center open? I think I need a reservation. At least my daughter will think so! I decided to send the links to the photos and the journal review to both my kids–I'll report back about her reaction.
Kristie and I were at Turner at 8:30 AM. Started out #7 or 8 in line. Ended up 30 or more by the time the doors opened with line crashers–but 30 out of 1000 got us great places by the stage. All worth it –although the last 90 minutes in the cold and shade of the building was the longest. But all worth it Danny was fantastic. The pictures are so cool.
Jan
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Bosman; that is so adorable! Thanks for posting that. I had to rush to MJs to post it and say how it kind of blows away the stereotypes of Danny’s fans being all older women (not that there’s anything wrong with it, lol).
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Just lost two longest posts. Trying a short one to see what’s happened.
Thanks to all for posting positive reviews of MBD per Danny’s request! jan
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Pam, err, those are just “not-as-young” women, lol.
Josie, I must have that same Michael McDonald album. It’s one of the CDs I have in my office, was playing it last week
Haven’t taken my Danny CD out yet to play in the office, soon I guess.
There are a bunch of people tweeting from Chicago today, they all seem to be quite young/youngish. And at the northern Virginia best buy, easily 80% of the people there were in their 20s or younger. And not a few men, for that matter.
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I just found out that the I<3 Danny Gokey –WI pride poster that I was holding up with all the ihearties outside Turner Hall made page 2 of the Milwaukee paper this morning. With the caption of Gokey Mania!
I think I'm going to have to make a reservation for the Gokey Addiction Rehap Center when my daughter finds out about this…
Jan
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Jan, that is just so painful when it happens, I know! When I do a long post I have started just cutting and pasting it somewhere else before I click Submit.
I am glad Danny asked you to pass that message along. If there is ever anything we can do for him I hope he will find a way to let us know. It just takes a few minutes for us but with all of us together of course it makes a big difference.
Twitter: kiady
well that girl had to go to 3 different stores to get Danny’s cd, at least she got it lol i think i would be crying after the 2nd store LOL
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Ok, Bosman, pretty funny second utube.
Seems to support all of our reports of low availability!
I have put raising Danny’s stars at iTunes on my daily list of Danny To Do’s.
Twitter: kiady
Yesterday’s performance of I Will Not Say Goodbye @ Turner Hall Ballroom
http://vimeo.com/9974128
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Pam, did you see that the picture from in front of Turner with my I<3 Danny Gokey, WI Pride poster (and all the Ihearties) made page 2 of the today's Milwaukee paper with the caption of Gokey Mania? I laughed when I found out, but know I'm going to need that Gokey Addiction Rehap Center Reservation –or at least my daughter will think so….
Twitter: kiady
ON that link on the right side you can watch some videos of Danny @ Mall Of America too!
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Oh there is videos of MBD and WHTM from yesterday too!!
Jan, is that you holding up the “I heart Danny Gokey-WI pride” sign on the #11 picture from jsonline?
Hi Claudia,
Were you able to solve your iTunes problem? If not, try closing iTunes again (better to do a computer restart). I created a new account again and it was successful.
It is taking sometime for iTunes to load, it is a little bit slower.
hey everyone,such great reviews and sales on dannys cd,so so proud.the story about megan was so sweet,typical danny,he is in a class of his own,all that talent and a big heart and personality to boot,he is just precious.i have not met him YET,but thats the beauty of danny,u dont’t have to meet him to know what a wonderful,caring person he is with such a sweet soul,he is just a real and genuine guy who really cares about people,just a big ol teddybear,i just luv him.my heart is full of joy 4 megan and all the ihearties that saw the concert,he never fails 2 deliver.God bless u all,drop by later.oh the youtube video was cute.
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Ana, Hi! No i wasn’t
because the payment has always a card selected already so i’m not able to unselect it. what do i do? LOL
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fans at best buy autograph line. a little scared for the old lady in the first set.
‘look at this old lady’s head right in front of me!’ ‘ just push her down, she can’t get back up if she falls !’ nicole ! lmao
He’s almost ready to perform !!!!
@dannygokey is KILLING IT !
danny @dannygokey was SO SWEET ! ahg! he was so nice & humble. i was really nervous & awkward but it’s okay
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young male fan
standing in line waiting to meet @dannygokey! whooo-hoo!!
T-minus 2 minutes till @dannygokey comes out! Its soo crowded! Hehe!
Just met @dannygokey!! He’s soo awesome! Cool and laid back. It sucks i didnt know what to say!
im sad that i didnt get a picture with @dannygokey! but being in his presence made my whole month!
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My whole w/end has been about waiting. 5 hours on Fri for @JoeNichols show& now 4 @dannygokey.All worth it! Shouldve brought my newspaper.
Singing What Hurts The Most. Really? Can’t get away from Rascal Flatts. Ugh. {funny a Danny fan would be an RF hater}
@dannygokey You sounded great!!!
Since I had already bought his cd and not at Best Buy I am at the end of a verrrrry loooong line. {err, would it have killed her to buy another one? lol}
Great performance by @dannygokey. Had the chance to be part of the in studio that US99 had w him earlier this year. Nice guy
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not at best buy but danny apparently DM’ing a fan
{earlier today} Although I am enjoying the new @dannygokey cd, I still wish it wasn’t country.
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oops, opposite of a lost post. one that got sent before I meant to, lol.
not at best buy but danny apparently DM’ing a fan
{earlier today} Although I am enjoying the new @dannygokey cd, I still wish it wasn’t country
{and now} @dannygokey…a personal tweet reply? consider me converted. I’ll tell everyone to buy it!
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from Chicago radio station {isn’t Trish the one who emailed back to (?) Betty?)
TrishBiondo: Amazing performance by Danny Gokey at Orland’s Best Buy! Catch him if you can-what a star! He joins Lisa and Ray 7:30 tomorrow on US99.5!
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@dannygokey i just met you at best buy, and you were incredible. Thank you so muchh for making my day! Please come back to chicago.
7 minutes ago via txt
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Nancy, that is me holding up my sign in pic 11 and on page 2 of the Milwaukee paper. My daughter will be booking me a reservation at the Gokey Addiction Rehap Center….jan
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I’ve lost 5 posts—if they eventually show up I’m sorry for the repetition…..
Twitter: kiady
Jan, LOL you don’t need it none of us here need it,we are all happy in our Dannyland with our addiction which is still growing haha love the sign!
Twitter: pjgvet
Steph;
High five on posting the two fan vids at MJs and getting a non fan to listen to his song only to find that they liked it?!
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awww. I forget sometimes Chicago isn’t that far from Milwaukee.
{last night} Sad I missed the @dannygokey concert in Milwaukee by two people
{just now} Just met @dannygokey which totally made up for missing out in Milwaukee….stoked!!
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Jan, at least you will have company there
I fear it will be a waste of time for me though; I prefer to call it the “Gokey Spa” since there is no cure, lol.
Twitter: steph6449
Jan, thanks. I think that first one was Pam though
Sometimes we travel in a pack at mj’s, lol. It’s always amusing to me when we briefly hijack the threads there with happy Danny talk for a while
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Sugarland club is starting presales for some more dates.
The pre-sales for the Sugarland shows below are exclusively for Sugarland Fan Club members and they will take place on Ticketmaster.com. Danny will probably be at the one in Scranton since the adjoining dates are Danny + Jake dates. Not sure about Cooperstown. The CA and Phoenix dates are non-Danny, I think.
“The presale for the following shows start on Monday March 8 at 10am Local Venue Time:
April 30, 2010 – Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord, CA
June 11, 2010 – Toyota Pavilion in Scranton, PA
September 4, 2010 – Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, NY
The presale for the following show starts on Tuesday March 9 at 10am Local Venue Time:
May 2, 2010 – Cricket Pavilion in Phoenix, AZ”
A few comments . . .
I loved pic #10 from JSOnline of Danny with some of his MALE fans. I think Danny is picking up more and more male fans. You may not be able to tell that from the iheart site. Only the very brave, like Gokeyguy, DOGG, Jason, Bosman, etc., are willing to immerse themselves in this estrogen-rich environment. (But consider what you’re all learning about how women really think!
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I agree that, especially at this point, anyone who is lucky enough to see Danny should not be worrying about trying to take pictures or video. Just immerse yourself in the experience. I think the recaps are more illuminating anyway.
SUMMERFEST: Assuming that Danny does Summerfest, I have a question for the folks from Wisconsin: is Summerfest big enough to handle an influx of Dannyfans from other parts of the country? If so, I might be interested in trying to do Summerfest. Aside from Danny, the attraction is having an opportunity to meet other ihearties. Ditto the Sugarland tour. If there is an opportunity to connect with one or more ihearties to attend a Sugarland concert, I might be up for that. But I’m not going to stress about it.
LOL Jan! My husband used to think the same about me. Even had the nerve to call him Danny Dorky…until yesterday. I told him the story about Meaghan and showed him the video this morning. He had nothing but HIGH praise for Danny after seeing it.
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Ellen, did you ask before about the Sugarland date in Scranton? I just posted that the presales are starting.
Made an error though, as I believe that would be Luke Bryan (of corn song fame) and Danny.
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Ellen, the main stage at Summerfest is quite big; major acts play there (Carrie Underwood this year; Tim McGraw w/Lady A).
So they could handle it. But tickets may be hard to get. Probably all of us should try and grab the limit when they go on sale- I know I will so that as many people I know as possible can get them.
I hope Hannele can make it; I also hope he doesn’t play when I am gone on vacation; I think there is only one day it could be
, so keeping my fingers crossed.
Erika has time off in July, but not sure when. It ends July 5.
Ellen: Summerfest is HUGE, with lots of stages. It would accomodate an influx of Danny fans a million times better than Turner Hall!
I wonder what stage Danny would play on there…
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nancy, lol. and nice to see you posting here
Danny is a little dorky though, gotta be honest
in a good way, though, and less and less so every day…
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took her a while but mj has put up a post with videos from Turner Hall
http://mjsbigblog.com/danny-gokey-cd-release-concert-turner-hall-ballroom-milwaukee-video.htm
Twitter: jannworth
I tell you, I laughed so hard when I opened the paper and saw my picture holding up that sign—and it was Toni’s idea for make the sign. She’s good at directing me to do things for Danny…..
You see, I try to pretend that I’m not this crazy Danny fan in my “real” world. But they have been colliding on regular fashion….
Pam, I like the Danny Spa idea–will he make regular appearances at the spa?
I wonder how many friendships developed out of all those folks waiting in line at Turner Hall? I still remember my experience at the W-B meet & greet. I got there at 1:00 p.m., and the Idols didn’t come out until about 4:10 p.m. I chatted away with Dee, the Adam fan. We exchanged contact information, and still stay in touch.
Twitter: kiady
Jan, lol it’s a lovely picture! It sure shows the love for Danny
Claudia,
Did you go to the App Store then Free Apps after which click one of the free Apps?
Maybe you have to get a new email address, it has to be a .com, e.g. [email protected].
Try to click the radio button beside “none” and wait for iTunes to process, it takes a little bit of time to effect the change.
I hope this helps.
Twitter: kiady
Ana, i’m going to try again! It’s not because of the email, it’s because of the payment, when you created the account wasn’t the visa card selected on the payment part?
Jan, those pictures were in the paper? I guess I haven’t looked at it very well today. I saw the article on the back of the Local section, but where are the pictures? I just saw them online.
Twitter: kiady
Ana, it’s done! yeah finally lol in the payment part it wasn’t showing “none” as an option and now it did so i already created the account, going to rate and review Danny’s album on the US store! Thank you!!!
Hey everybody! Have I told you all lately what a great group of people the ihearties are?
I am definitely interested in Summerfest, but I don’t want to take the opportunity away from someone else, if it’s hard to get tickets.
I’m also interested in Scranton. Thanks, Steph, for posting the date. June 11th is do-able. We get very busy in May at work, updating our training manual and training the incoming summer externs. Much as I hate to be away from Oregon during the summer — *long-suffering sigh* — for Danny, I would do it.
Wow! I’m going to really need to start cranking at work and warn them about upcoming vacation.
Twitter: kiady
OH just notice on the US itunes store i clicked on MBD video and it says “digital booklet” after the whole tracklist, you guys who purchase the album on Itunes too have that digital booklet include? Because i haven’t! I just have the 11 songs
Twitter: jannworth
Nancy, page 2 of the front section of today’s Milwaukee paper.
Next to the words Gokey Mania!
Ellen, in addition to Iheart and twitter followers of Danny, I got to know 5 young ladies next to us quite well. We exchanged twitter info and they wanted a picture with Toni, Kristie and I –we proclaimed them the newest members of Cougars of the Future! They thought it was a hoot how much fun we were having following Danny–(at our ages!)
I will be following up in the next few days. Plus it was great meeting Cori! When things got boring, I just cruised the lines and had chats with random Danny fans!
Twitter: steph6449
someone at mj’s, not someone I’d necessarily recognize as a Danny fan (though not a hater)
Being the devoted idoltard that I am, I always post idol updates on my facebook page – cause you KNOW I am a fan of them all . The one that has received the most reaction and response is Danny and MBD. I know this really speaks of my little circle of friends, but withing that circle the ones that have responded to Danny have been a diverse bunch. He has something that speaks to folks for sure. I’m happy for him.
Twitter: jannworth
Claudia, the digital booklet is so cool–you can blow the pictures up really big–i hope you can get it!
Twitter: pjgvet
Jan, You looked great!
At Danny’s homecoming the head of Summerfest invited Danny to come and be a “Headliner”.
Whether that means at the main stage; or a Headlining act at a smaller stage (each stage-whether its alt. rock, classic rock, country, jazz, comedy, etc has acts throughout the day; with the Main act being the last at about 10pm or so.)
I took it at the time to be the Marcus Amphitheatre; the main stage.
But that stage has a capacity of 23,000. RCA doesn’t seem to want to throw Danny out on big stages yet. So perhaps they would pair him up with a popular act; or maybe he would headline a smaller stage. I hope its the main stage, because that is the only one they sell tickets for and it could be a real mess if he is at one of the smaller stages.
Twitter: steph6449
Ellen, this is the site that has the Sugarland advance presale tickets. Not sure how Scranton would be similar or different, but it was worth it when I got the tickets for Columbia MD to go that way, even with the fee to join their club.
By the time the public sale started, the best tickets in the pavilion were another 10 or more rows back and waaaaaaay to the side.
http://my.sugarlandfan.com
Twitter: pjgvet
Is the Digital booklet the same as the CD one? I didn’t print it either, Claudia.
Steph, did you notice how you know who at Mjs came right back with how ALL the top 3 connect with a diverse bunch of fans! LOL. she can’t stand us saying nice things about him; its such a hoot.
Twitter: steph6449
Should caveat, have we seen a confirmation for Danny at Scranton? I’ve seen local people tweeting about his being there,and also all the dates before and after that have Danny and Luke so it’s hard to imagine Danny would be there on the 11th with Sugarland and again on the 13th, but not the 12th.
(yes Danny with Luke) 06/11 Saratoga NY SPAC
( good bet? ) 06/12 Scranton PA Toyota Pavilion
(yes Danny with Luke) 06/13 Canadiagua, NY Marvin Sands PAC
(yes Danny with Luke) 06/17 Sioux Falls, SD Sioux Falls Arena
(yes per Fox4 tv in KC ) June 18, 2010 – Sprint Center in Kansas City, MO
(yes Danny with Luke) 6/19 Bossier City Louisiana Century Tel Center
Claudia, by default the first card on the left is selected, click the button on the left of “none”. Once you click the button wait for it to reflect, iTunes is slow right now.
That’s great Claudia.
Twitter: kiady
Jan and Pam, oh when i bought the album on Itunes it didn’t come with the digital booklet! And i’m always checking the album on my Itunes store, looking for reviews from other Portuguese people and i never saw a digital booklet after the tracklist, i guess we don’t have it on our store
how disappointing!
Twitter: steph6449
Claudia, if you want to DM me with your email, I have an extra legal copy of the digital booklet from when I accidentally bought Danny’s iTunes album twice thinking my original copy had gone astray.
Pam, yes, indeed I noticed that.
Every now and then she says something nice about Danny to show she is fair-minded, but it seems to be hard for her. I guess she is a big Kris fan? Must be hard for her to see Danny currently getting as much or more buzz than Kris, whose AI performance kind of came and went without any great impact for him.
Twitter: kiady
Ana, thank you
Jan, oh i bet we can see every detail of Danny on those digital photos from the digital booklet, i have to get one!! lol
Already rated and did a review on your US store
you know my English is not good so i apologize if i wrote something wrong lol at least i get the 5 starts rate right! LOL j/k
I’m going to bed i should have gone already, have a great evening! Bye sweeties!
Twitter: kiady
Steph, oh are you sure you want to give it to me?
Twitter: steph6449
more videos from last night, one is WHTM. the other seems to be a mix of songs
Today, March 07, 2010, 21 minutes ago |
uploaded my @dannygokey videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Fa2QB9jo0 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmmMlb2Jww <3
Jan: I missed the picture because I was looking for a BIG one like the online one. Nice that the picture they printed has you zoomed in nice and close.
Twitter: steph6449
hi Claudia, sure. It’s an extra copy from iTunes plus I got several of the physical CDs, including one I hadn’t counted on when I went at the last minute to the Best Buy and felt I should buy one there to support Danny.
That long video I just posted has Danny singing Get Away. First time I heard that, it seemed like it would be a great tour song for him. Definitely seems to be! I liked the comparison in one of the reviews today (that snarky PA one?) that it sounds like it could be a Montgomery Gentry song.
Twitter: kiady
Steph, ok thank you so much, really appreciate it! Already DMed you
Really have to go, bye. Have a great rest of day ihearties!
I’m not sure whether I’ll be able to do the Sugarland tour. They are getting out the information so late (confirming acts, ticket sales), that it is hard to make plans.
Steph, Shirl, and Lisa, do you all have your tickets for the Maryland concert?
Helio
That is cool that the K-mart in your part of NC was playing Danny’s song. The K-mart in my part of NC didn’t even have Danny’s CD, but I don’t know if it was sold out or if they just didn’t have his CD in stock.
Twitter: jancute
Good Evening Ladies!
Twitter: steph6449
Ellen, I got a group of four tickets for Columbia the day the Sugarland club presale started (me, Shirl + hubby, Lisa), not sure if they could have some non-lawn seats through Ticketmaster.
I think it’s probably easier to get decent seats at the non-megaticket locations outside the larger cities.
Twitter: steph6449
aww, Danny today at Best Buy
http://twitpic.com/1790gp
and it seems he went shopping after
I just saw danny gokey at the outlet mall. Omfg
no…i didnt talk to him. I was in shock but it was incredible. And def him
Hi Ihearts,
I have been on the go all day. All I could think about was Danny and what was going on at iheart. It will take me a while to read the comments of the day and watch the videos. Oh, I just remembered that I was supposed to call my dad back. It will be a while.
Back Later…
Danny’s now #32 on the 7 Day Rolling chart and is up 51 spins for the week.
I think that he will end up being #32 on the published chart, for the week up two spots from last week.
Twitter: jancute
Did anybody in here watched this weeks Idolatry??? they feature some Danny on it but just a little at the end. Kristen has a new baby boy LOL!!! they said the baby was born on March 4 8:25pm 10 mins before Danny performed LOL!!!! I think they don’t have any negative feedback on Danny YAY!!!
Hey Steph, I think Im going the Winterblast, do you still have the tickets??? are you sure you don’t wanna come?
Twitter: steph6449
Hi Jan, yes I still have extra tickets. If you want to DM me your address, I can mail you a couple?
I may go (still debating the travel), but I won’t use the extras I got.
If anyone would be interested in going to the Opry 3/13, there could be extra ticket there also. Darla and Lori from twitter are also going.
Twitter: steph6449
A hater showed up at Brian Mansfield’s thread today
If any of you would want to post something and try and push that down, here is the link again.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2010/03/danny-gokeys-my-best-days-are-ahead-of-me-the-story-behind-the-song/1
Twitter: steph6449
{from Chicago} Disappointed I couldn’t get a pic with @DannyGokey today. Oh well, at least I got to hear him sing! Those are some awesome pipes.
{man in the Bay area} @dannygokey i freakin love you, your new cd is amazing
Danny today at Best Buy — wonder if his hand was hurting after all the signing the past couple of days
http://twitpic.com/179bic
Twitter: .
With Danny moving to #32 on the mediabase chart I think that he may move to #30 on the Billboard chart although he did lose some audience impressions this week. That said a top 30 update to Billboard, Top Country Album on both I-tunes and Amazon, AI appearance, store sellouts, how could he have dreamed of a greater wish. All that’s missing is Sophia.
Twitter: steph6449
Poster display in store for Danny
http://twitpic.com/179ffi
Twitter: jancute
steph – Ok I’ll DM you this week… that would be great if you could come but if the travel plans cannot be fixed thats ok, i can understand cuz I have problems on traveling far away… Thank you so much… I don’t know what to expect on the 21…
– yes, maybe thats the case, Danny is so busy this week, I hope he can find time to rest but in the end of the day, he has his big smile on his face cuz hes living his dream…
Danip – yes, Im a bit emotional yesterday about that, with all of that success and hype, Sophia is not here anymore…
Twitter: steph6449
glad to hear Danny is pushing toward the top 30 barrier on the charts
Hope he makes it on Billboard.
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appears this person’s radio show (syndicated or content in that Dial Global network?) may have Danny on air or some other event they are sponsoring
jeffyoungshow: All this week: Free CD’s + 2 ways to win a trip to Chicago to see (and meet) Danny Gokey LIVE! Will you “Karaoke for Gokey”? Details soon!
http://www.rbr.com/radio/13384.html
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
steph, I went over and commented on that Mansfield article. I went back to the other one (about Danny’s potential sales) and saw that someone is a little cranky with me for sticking up for Pam. I guess they think they get to tell everyone else what to post. Well, maybe not.
I commented at mj’s about the Get Away video that you linked there. You are right, what a great song that will be for tour! Really love how he sounds on that and it looks like he is having a great time with it.
For those of you who Twitter, Meaghan missed her flight and is stuck in Detroit waiting for a 10pm flight and I’m sure would love some “company”!
Twitter: steph6449
confessions are spreading to twitter, lol
Meeee too!
RT I’m an @dannygokey-aholic…I’m pretty sure I don’t want to be cured, just wondering how many others there are 
Hi Everyone!
Just watch to add my two cents worth here about yesterday’s events regarding Meaghan from Nashville.
First off, I have to say Meaghan is truly an inspiration to me. As I told her last night, she has become a friend for life. She was so excited when I told her she was definitely going to be in the front row for Danny’s show based on the fact that we were the fifth people in line. She even tried calling her mom to tell her!
People at Turner Hall Restaurant were very rude to Meaghan. I emailed them last night when I got home from show voicing my opinion!
About mid-afternoon, Val (@shesmylittle), Christy and I went for a walk and saw Ivan by Danny’s bus. Val and I were talking to Ivan about how Meaghan and Whitney made the trip from Nashiville and it would be awesome if Danny could give them a shout out. I wrote down info for Ivan to give to Danny, and the rest is history!
As 5:30 approached, I asked the security guard (who had been down there all day with us) if there was a way Meaghan and Whitney could get in without having to worry about the crowd rushing them. He politely told me (surprise, surprise) that he would have someone escort them upstairs through the rear entrance. Thus, Meaghan and Whitney ended up in the front row to see Danny! (I ended up sitting to the side because Michelle had brought who daughter who was nearly trampled when we tried to get to the front row!)
Hi Jen,
What an eventful day for you all. I am sorry to hear about the bad experience Meaghan had with the hateful people in the restaurant. I’m happy that you called to complain. That is totally uncalled for. I’m glad the security guard was nice enough to escort Meaghan into the building. Things started getting better then, right? There couldn’t have been a better concert than having Danny hold your hand and sing to you. What an unbelievable night you ihearts had. I’m so happy for Meaghan. I can’t watch that video without crying.
Hi everyone! I posted here for the 1st time yesterday but it went into moderation.
I’ve been a “faithful lurker” on the site since last May and have enjoyed all of you so much, as well as this wonderful journey of Danny’s.
I live in the Twin Cities and got to hear Danny at the Mall of America Friday night. As you can see from videos someone posted earlier, he looked very handsome and his voice was so powerful (no hoarseness at all!) It was a treat to experience him live.
And…standing 3 ft. behind me for a short time was Danny’s cousin, Joel (you may follow him on Twitter). He had a brief conversation with the woman in front of me (who was his mother-in-law)and that helped me make the connection of who this was.
Joel later joined his wife and children on the floor level to Danny’s right. Danny introduced Joel as well as a former youth minister of his during the concert.
I chatted with the mother-in-law briefly asking her if she has been at family gatherings with Danny and she replied that she had been at a couple in earlier years. (She referred to him as Dan, as I guess most of the family does).
I’m sorry that I don’t have photos or videos to share but just wanted to express my excitement about the evening. It is such a joy to be one of Danny’s fans along with all of you.
Carla, Hi
I’m so glad that you have joined in on the conversations here. We love hearing from all of Danny’s fans. Welcome
That Joel is so funny and mischievous. And he is so proud of his cousin, just like the rest of Danny’s family is. I follow him on twitter too. That’s so cool that you saw him.
It’s really slow here tonight.
I hope we hear some good news next week about Danny’s first weeks record sales.
Carla, I think that I’ve heard that Danny’s family calls him Dan. It seems so odd doesn’t it? We have all called him Danny since the AI show. To refer to him as Dan just seems odd.
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Hi Carla! Nice to meet you, and how great that you got to see Danny perform twice this week! I hope now that you’ve “broken the ice” that you’ll join in the discussions here if you’d like to. As you know we are a pretty eclectic bunch and everyone just talks about whatever they want to, but somehow it works!
Thanks, VickieCarol. It was interesting to learn earlier that Danny had lived here in the Twin Cities back in 2000 and would frequent the mall quite often. It’s been fun to wonder if I might have passed by him on one of my shopping trips without ever knowing one day we all would know him!
Danny just tweeted:
dannygokey
I’ll be performing & signing 2morrow (Monday march 8th) at the Diamondback Saloon in Belleville, Michigan. Starts 7pm-Would love 2 cya there
Hi Josie. Even though you all don’t know me, I feel like we’re “friends,” since I’ve read the comments here for so long. This is a great site and once I discovered it didn’t want to go anywhere else.
Carla,
That’s right, you could have passed Danny in the mall and not even known that in a couple of years you would be going to one of his concerts. I’m so glad that Danny is blessing us with his music and his strong, loving, compassionate character. I know that he has affected and touched so many lives already. And it has just begun. One Heart Touching Many, That’s Our Danny…
Twitter: steph6449
Radio DJ Trish Biondo in Chicago writing at their website about Danny’s appearance today at the Best Buy.
http://www.us-99.com/blog/2010/03/danny-gokey-catch-him-if-you-can/
Danny Gokey just wrapped up a stunning performance at the Best Buy in Orland Park! The energy from both Danny and the crowd was electrifying! The question isn’t how big of a star is he going to be…cause he already is! Catch him if you can!
Check out Danny tomorrow morning with Lisa and Ray. He will also be on WGN-TV.
Danny to tour with Sugarland this year…and stay tuned to US99 for an upcoming performance in the area.
In the meantime, check out his new CD, “My Best Days!” You are going to love it!
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someone’s blog, interesting description of Danny’s voice
http://mondodimusica.blogspot.com/2010/03/danny-gokey-still-my-most-favorite-idol.html
Hey everyone! Welcome Carla!
I am finally starting to come down from the Danny high I’ve been on since yesterday. Casey25 and I had a great time at the show. The long wait out in the cold was well worth it. The show was amazing! And Danny was so, so sweet with Meaghan. It was such an aaawww moment. Especially since it came right after him describing how he had proposed to Sophia. He has such a soft, sweet soul.
I hope to put together a longer recap with more detail, as I absorb the whole experience again. Watching those videos is bringing back such great memories, too.
Thanks to everyone who keep this site going. Danny, Brandon and Ivan were all so appreciative of what everyone here at iheart does for them.
Steph,
Thanks for the links. I agree with that comment.
“The question isn’t how big of a star is he going to be…cause he already is!”
Danny’s fans here have always known that. Danny has been a star to me since AI. And he will always be my AI. No one can compare to Danny.
Milgokey,
I was so excited to hear that you and Casey had gotten in and had met up with the rest of the ihearts. Oh, what a night it must have been. I can’t wait to read your recap.
That’s so sweet that Danny, Brandon and Ivan acknowledged you and all the ihearts. What a great bunch of guys.
Thanks VickieCarol. Casey and I were both so nervous about the line to get in but we made it in plenty of time to get a good spot. It was great to meet Pam, too. I’m sorry we didn’t get to meet any other ihearties
we were stuck further back in line, almost a block away from them.
Casey, if you’re lurking, check your email.
Twitter: steph6449
Hello to Carla
And also I meant yesterday to say hello to Grace who posted here yesterday, I think?
American Idol Rewind is airing a Chris Daughtry Special. I’ll bet soon there will be a Danny Gokey Special, don’t you think?
Thanks for your welcome, Milgokey & Steph. It’s been fun chatting with some of you tonight. I’m checking out for now. Goodnight!
Twitter: jannworth
Vickie Carol, I was thinking the same thing (a Danny special–in 2 years?) when I saw the Chris special.
I should get ready for going back to work. I’m so not ready for the real world!
Good Night Carla, Hope to see ya here again.
Hi Jan, The real world, what a bore. Now Dannyland, that’s more like it……
Twitter: jannworth
Milgokey and Casey, I’m sad I didn’t get to meet you. We were thinking that “next time” we should all where Iheart name tags so we can pick each other out in the lines/crowd!
A great time! Jan
Twitter: jannworth
Just checked Itunes (and entered another CD review and rating).
MBD is still #1 on the country chart and the single is #3!!!
It will be very interesting to see the album sales numbers. The video on the fan not finding the CD is way too familiar–but I’m so glad she/we persisted!
Jan
I went to iTunes, but couldn’t figure out how to rate the CD or review it. Any tips on what I’m doing wrong?
I got the CD Thursday, and I can’t stop listening to it. Better than I even imagined! Soooo many great songs.
Twitter: pjgvet
Welcome Carla! Glad you were able to see Danny at the Mall. Did you get to talk to Joel at all? I just love him; I think he is a little OTT; but hilarious.
A funny story; my friend was in Mpls this weekend for a choir performance with her daughter. She emailed me and said “I saw Danny! I was 20 feet away and took a picture. Its kind of blurry but I’ll mail it to you!”.
I guess my cover isn’t blown. I thanked her for the picture; grateful that little does she know I look at hundreds of Danny pics a week and was staring right up at his gorgeous countenance just last night almost within reaching distance
Josie- WTH? LOL! Didn’t realize my comment was controversial! Now, I have said some provocative things on forums, I admit, but simply quoting that person’s comment and weighing in as applied to Danny fans wasn’t one of them. Not sure why they were so defensive; unless its because I chided them 2 weeks ago for saying Danny’s future was ‘cloudy’ because he was down in spins one day (!). You are so sweet to stick up for me though. I went back and commented to them once you warned me about my attempt to stir up trouble, lol!
Milgokey fan, it was so great to meet you, and Kelley (Casey25) also! Its too bad the cold waiting did us all in so we were too tired to socialize after. Can’t wait for your recap!
Hi Cindy,
Do you have the iTunes software installed in your computer?
I just watched MBD on the GAC channel. It’s odd that Kellie Picklers video always seems to be right behind Danny’s video. When he was #3 she was #4 and when he is #7 she is #8. I just thought that was odd They showed the birdhouse that Danny decorated and mentioned SHF. That’s great!
Billboard Top 200 Charting of debut albums:
Adam #3
Kris #11
Allison #35
I had read that Danny is expected to chart #5. So it looks like only Danny and Adam will have debuted their albums on Billboard’s Top 10.
Wow, I Am G, That’s great! When does Billboard’s top 10 come out officially? Th
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Pam, I know, that was ridiculous! Their attempted criticism of you didn’t even make any sense. I don’t mind having a spirited discussion with people, but there’s got to be some kind of logical progression there, kwim? Sheesh.
It’s great that you and other ihearties got to sit so close to the stage. I’ve watched most of the videos and it looks like he was having a great time! You guys are so lucky. Milwaukee gets Danny, and Seattle gets….Sanjaya. Not that I’m jellus or anything.
Cindy, by the time I type this someone else might have answered. But if you find his album and click on it, about halfway down the page to the left there are stars you can click to rate it. Then further down the page you should see a Customer Reviews section and a place to click to Write a Review. You do need to have an iTunes account, which I assume you have if you’re navigating around there.
Pam – it was great to meet you, too! You are so right the cold, and the standing, really had us pretty sore by the end of the night.
Jan, I’m sorry we missed you. Although I think you may have been standing next to us when we were talking to Brandon afterwards. It was one of those, “I know her from somewhere” moments. I should have said something but I wasn’t sure it was you. Next time let’s go with the name tags
My computer is acting as if it has a mind of it’s own. I didn’t even click submit and the comment posted.
I was going to finish up by saying that, that #5 would be an awesome debut for Danny’s album.
Ana, no…my mp3 player isn’t compatible with iTunes. I get my music off of amazon.com. Guess that’s why I can’t comment on iTunes. Oh well.
Jan/Milgokey,
That’s a great idea you have about wearing name tags. Maybe there could be a special Iheart design just for the ihearts so when we go to the concerts we will be recognizable. If Danny could see them on everyone, then he would know exactly which fans are from the iheart site. Hey, he loves the ihearts so we might have a leg up, so to speak. Ha
I wonder what Amy would think of that. If she likes the idea then she or someone could design a special pin. Just a thought.
Cindy, you can’t comment from iTunes site, you’ve got to have the software installed in your computer.
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
btw, for non-mj people, “jellus” is how she spells jealous and it amuses me for some reason.
I am really looking forward to seeing Danny’s numbers. Glad he’s having such a strong debut. It doesn’t matter to me if he beats this person or that person, I just want him to be able to continue doing what he wants to do. But he has worked so hard and it’s fun seeing it pay off for him. And I will admit to taking some satisfaction in knowing that some so-called experts who kept trying to write him off will have to admit that they were wrong, if only to themselves.
Twitter: steph6449
this format at the Oscars with the testimonials from the stage is kinda creeping me out
Twitter: steph6449
I love Sandra Bullock though, hope she wins
Hi everyone-woke up so thought I`d catch up with all the videos and gorgeous photos- What an incredible man Danny is, what he did for Meaghan is just beyond words-she will never forget that moment-I think we all cried with her-a real `feel good` moment- Talking of which- Steph, you found the tweet from Stephan O`Hanlon, writing an article about Danny for the next issue of Country People Mag. That`s a UK Mag-can`t find out when next issue is- but I was SO HAPPY when I saw that-because, when we were doing our Airtime Rally over here- I wanted to get Danny into the newspapers or magazines, and I emailed this Magazine!!WOW, another success for DGUK I`m well pleased. When I find out the Issue Danny is in, I will tell you and, IF I can get it, I will buy as many as possible YAY
Twitter: steph6449
Josie, I hope the best for Danny, and will be happy with at least solid success by standards for newbie country acts.
But I will enjoy it thoroughly if some of the stuck-on-stupid hater peeps have to choke on Danny’s success
They are already keeping a low profile, I noticed 
Twitter: steph6449
Aww, Sandra won–yay
Carole, that’s great. I did wonder why a BBC person would be writing for a US magazine. Very happy to hear he’s writing for the UK audience.
Hi Carole,
You and all of Danny’s overseas fans are so incredible.
I’m excited to find out what Danny’s first week of Album sales are. Jose, those people who were trying to write Danny off will soon feel very foolish.
Carole, Did you read the comment from one of the ihearts who attended the concert last night, I forgot who exactly, but she said that Lifetime will be doing a story on Danny. That is so awesome.
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
steph, I have noticed that too. Suits me just fine! Whether they are quiet because they are choking on it or because they have realized the error of their ways, it still results in blessed silence.
I’ve also noticed more people saying nice things. I think some of them may be people who were just lurking before, and now feel emboldened to participate. That’s nice.
I also love Sandra Bullock. She’s one of my favorite actresses.
Twitter: pjgvet
Yes, the haters are VERY quiet on all the forums. Its almost kind of too quiet; I’m so used to being in defense mode, lol.
I love that long Turner Hall utube vid where that fan apologized for touching Danny’s leg when she met him at the meet and greet, lol. Of course he just said ‘That’s ok sweetheart”.
Erika; I think Mighty is starting to become obsessed with iheart and you! After all we are much more interesting than AI forums. He tries to play there; but everyone mostly ignores him so he misses us
This was just one of his lovely posts on Danny’s folder at AI forums:
6 hours ago :: Mar 07, 2010 – 2:24PM #8 Report Post Quote Multi-Quote
mighty1
mighty1
Posts: 537
I dont mean to get off topic but PJ, let Ericka know Im back on iheart under a different name and no tennisball. Ihearts best days are ahead of it…
VickieCarol- is it you?! LOL!
Pam,
Hey, it could be, you never know. Ha
But who is this Mighty? Has anyone really met him/her? Is he/she a Danny fan and if so then why don’t they comment here, or have they?
Since I hardly ever go to the AI forums I’m clueless.
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Pam, that video was funny, but what in the world was she thinking! Well actually, don’t answer that.
lol at mighty, that’s funny! I don’t think I believe it, but that makes it even funnier.
Carole, meant to say in my last post, that’s wonderful!
Oh guess what, Tony T from that Seattle station I’ve talked about before wrote back to my tweet asking what he thought of Danny’s album. He said he thinks it is strong and that Danny sings great. He keeps breaking my heart every Monday morning though. But maybe tomorrow! I hope that all of the events of the past week will result in good adds for him tomorrow.
Twitter: steph6449
interesting about country music audience
http://www.musicdish.com/mag/index.php3?id=12609
CMA Country Music Consumer Segmentation Study Results
Country Music Consumers Continue to Embrace Format, But Spend Less
VickieCarol, the new Billboard chart comes out on Wed. #5 was the chart prediction made my HDD. Not sure how that translate into actual sales. But it’s still good to know that Danny will likely have the 2nd highest charting debut album of Season 8. And that he will debut on Billboard’s Top 10.
So at #5, he would be closer to Adam’s #3. And he would have to dropped below Kris’ #11 to not come in 2nd – which I don’t think will happen.
How about T-shirts with on them? I asked Amy about the idea, and she seems to be okay with it. It would be free advertising for her site, and easier to read and recognize than name tags.
Twitter: pjgvet
Carole, great news about the UK mag! You guys rock.
Vickie; Mighty is a Danny hater who pretends to be a Danny fan (a troll). They posted here for a while and Erika tolerated them since they were humorous and didn’t out and out hate. But they went too far in some of their off site Danny bashing so they banned him/her. They have delusions of grandeur; if you couldn’t already tell from their screen name “Mighty one”. LOl!
Good night all. Need to catch up on sleep and have a busy 10 days ahead; my Brazilian exchange student from 3 years ago is visiting us. So I may not be on here constantly like I usually am. Of course I will have to try and keep up
Twitter: steph6449
Josie, I definitely hope Danny gets some nice adds, and more radio play by those who have already added him. With his apparently very nice sales result, the AI9 buzz, and his single already having been moving up the charts gradually — I hope the radio stations will continue to add more spins for him. Brian Mansfield wrote a short note at his site that he didn’t think radio peeps necessarily took much account of those things, but I hope he will prove to be wrong.
In addition to Seattle, where the h— are those Texas stations, including the one that had 15,000 peeps tuning in to hear Danny. (Which, btw, seems now to have not been much of a fluke really.)
I AM G~~~ Second highest of season 8, sounds great to me. Danny would be hyped too, I’m sure.
Thanks Pam, I didn’t know that Mighty was a Danny hater. He should find someone else to hate on. Danny is off limits.
Good Night Pam~~~
Twitter: steph6449
not sure what this is, maybe a radio station doing something with Danny since he’ll be in Detroit soon?
Scrubs In The Morning Have you Gotten the DIRT?
On Neil Patrick Harris, Donald Trump, and of course, Danny Gokey!
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=350062969409&id=186754253117#!/pages/Scrubs-In-The-Morning/186754253117?ref=nf
Ellen,
T-Shirts sound good to me. Does Amy already have an Iheart logo or will one have to be designed? There are lots of talented ihearts here who might could come up with a design.
If the ihearts will voice their opinions about the idea on their comments here, we could see if there is an interest in the shirts.
Welcome, Carla! Glad you came out of “lurkdom.”
Josie, I have that Michael McDonald CD too!!!! It’s a great CD, but the funny thing is, Danny has spoiled me…I don’t love Michael’s voice as much as I used to. It comes across as a little garbled and not as pure and sweet as Danny’s. Still soulful and awesome, and I love the songs on that CD, but I have to say I love Danny’s voice so much more.
Twitter: BLfolsom
Welcome Carla!
Steph, I wanted to affirm your statement about Sugarland having a non-Danny concert here in Phoenix on May 2. If he would have been here I would have been the first in line to buy tickets!
Our oboe player in church today came up to me before the service this morning and asked me if I saw Danny on Thursday night, I said of course! Then one of my Gokey sisters asked the same thing, I told her yes and don’t forget to buy the album at Target or Walmart. She’s a doll.
So happy for all of you that got to see Danny yesterday; I was looking at our sancutary this morning and thought this place would be a perfect place for a concert….maybe and Danny concert. I mean we have everything, a great sound system, super lighting that would rival any auditorium, and a TV and recording capabilities. Now, what more would a superstar want in a venue!!
Goodnight
Steph,
The facebook link, the audio, just says that Danny will be on AI.
Twitter: BLfolsom
oops, I ment maybe A Danny concert – sorry.
Twitter: BLfolsom
VC, thats a great idea about T-shirts; we would be easily identifiable at all of his concerrs.
Goodnight again.
Good Night Billie~~~~
hey guys! just wanted to stop by and say how nice it was to meet everyone at my first Danny show in Milwaukee. it was my first time seeing him ever and it was so wonderful to be surrounded by fellow Danny fans! Please feel free to follow me on twitter! my username is ashwee427!
I know it’s late, but just wanted to check in before I call it a night.
Danny may chart in the Billboard top 10 this week. That would be awesome. Just have to wait til Tuesday to see if it’s official or not, but I have faith that he’ll chart well anyway
Mighty may be “undercover” on here? Hmmm…interesting to know. Guess he’s getting mad that no one else is paying any attention to him elsewhere, so he wants to “sneak” back on here. lol…so sad
Anyway, I’m out. Deuces <3 
that picture that was posted of Danny talking to Meaghan, I’m at the bottom in the grey sweatshirt!
I’ve been listening to the album nonstop since I got home! loving it majorly!