GoTriCities: Best days still ahead for Danny Gokey

His best days may very well still be ahead of him, but Danny Gokey is doing pretty good for himself right now.

His March 2 debut album, “My Best Days,” sold more than 65,000 copies in its first week, delivering the best numbers for a debut country male since 1992, and landed the No. 3 spot on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. And he’s not done yet.

Gokey will bring his emotional, edgy country sound to Gray on Monday, Aug. 23, to kick off the Main Stage entertainment for the 2010 Appalachian Fair.

Read the full article: http://www.gotricities.com/article.php?id=7721

Rickey.org: Danny Gokey – Box Office

06/18/10 Sugarland
Sprint Center
Kansas City, MO
The Messina Group / AEG Live
Danny Gokey (supporting act)
9,269
9,269
100%
$22 – $49.50
$432,286

See more here

AOL The Boot | Twitter Chatter: Top Country Tweets of the Week

Danny’s “eavesdropping at the hotel pool” tweet is listed as one of the AOL The Boot – Top Country Tweets of the Week. LOL.

Every Friday, The Boot brings you the week’s top tweets so you can see what your favorite stars are chirping about! And don’t forget to follow The Boot (@thebootdotcom)!
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Danny Gokey (@dannygokey): “True story – I’m @ a pool & there r some ladies who heard I was staying @ the same hotel. They’re talking about me not knowing I’m here listening Ha.”

via: http://www.theboot.com/2010/08/13/twitter-country-stars-tweets/

Contest: Are You Danny’s Biggest Fan?

Queen Creek Performing Arts Center in the Phoenix AZ area is running a “Back to School Bash” contest for a special opportunity to meet Danny Gokey when he performs soon in their venue! Read the official rules and try your luck if eligible at http://qcbash.com/gokey/

Not eligible or not a gambler? Consider picking up meet & greet passes through Sophia’s Heart Foundation for a sure thing.

Either way, it’s still a treat to see Danny talking about the contest in their video below.

via qclivetheater

Arizona Republic: Danny Gokey’s ‘Best Days’ and not-so-good ones

The Arizona Republic has posted an article about Danny Gokey’s American Idol performances, in anticipation of Danny’s upcoming headlining concert in Queen Creek AZ, August 14th.

We don’t agree with all the comments in this (we love “I Hope You Dance” and really hope to see Danny cover it again someday!).  But it’s interesting reading, and does recognize many of Danny’s best moments while offering a few criticisms. Check out their thoughts below on Danny’s audition and final competitive performance for American Idol, and read more at their site.

As the “Idol” veteran and his glasses make their way to Queen Creek for a Saturday, Aug. 14, concert, here’s a look back at key moments on the road to Gokey’s “Best Days.” [..]

First impressions

When they first rolled video on Danny’s story – how his wife had died just four weeks earlier – my first thought was, “Awesome, a sympathy finalist.” Not to diminish his pain. But you know how producers like to jerk those tears for fun and profit. Then, he took that broken heart and poured it into Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” sounding more like Otis Redding than he had a right to.

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‘Beautiful’ Loser

Having somehow made it to the Top 3 after “Dream On,” Danny nailed “You Are So Beautiful,” bringing the soul with real authority until he left you wondering if that’s the way composer Billy Preston planned it, never mind Joe Cocker. Even Al Green’s recent cover didn’t take the song to church and testify like Gokey did.

Read the full article at http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/articles/2010/08/06/20100806danny-gokey-american-idol-phoenix-concert.html

GACtv.com: Top 10 Country Tweets of the Week

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Look who’s listed on GAC’s favorite tweets this week, in good company with Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift and other country stars.

Country music stars sure love Twitter! Here at GAC, we follow them too. Here are our picks for the Top 10 Country Tweets Of The Week!

Danny Gokey: @dannygokey I have Bieber fever. Don’t hate

We thought that one was pretty funny too

via http://blog.gactv.com/blog/2010/07/30/top-10-country-tweets-of-the-week-4/

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Contest: Celebrate Biscuits, Win a Prize

Look for a Danny Gokey-related promotion in September (“National Biscuit Month”!) from your participating biscuit-serving restaurants. Through General Mills’ upcoming Pillsbury BiscuitFest you may be able to enter a promotional contest for your chance to win a trip to the CMA Awards or an autographed Danny Gokey CD.

Congratulations to Danny on this new endorsement opportunity! (We <3 biscuits!)

[2010-07-13] Restaurants can celebrate national biscuit month this September by bringing the excitement of country music and the CMA Awards to their operations with the new Pillsbury BiscuitFest event from General Mills Foodservice. Between August 1 and October 31, participating restaurant operators and their patrons could win a grand prize VIP trip for two to the CMA Awards and other country music prizes.

To help restaurant operators create their BiscuitFest event, General Mills Foodservice created a BiscuitFest promotional toolkit, which includes a BiscuitFest recipe book featuring a variety of recipes for breakfast, lunch, and snacks, and 50 BiscuitFest table tents announcing the BiscuitFest patron sweepstakes. Patrons can go online and register for a chance to win a VIP trip for two to the CMA Awards or one of 100 autographed Danny Gokey “My Best Days” albums. Gokey is the country music artist spokesperson for BiscuitFest.

Read more here http://www.qsrmagazine.com/articles/news/story.phtml?id=11327

Roughstock.com: “Mid-Year Report: My 25 Favorite Singles”

Country music blogger Matt Bjorke of Roughstock.com has posted his favorite 25 country singles so far in 2010. Among them is Danny Gokey’s new single “I Will Not Say Goodbye.”

“I Will Not Say Goodbye” – Danny Gokey

Wow. Where do I start with this one?  It’s a passionate lyric with a passionate vocal by a supremely talented singer who really has connected to the material presented here.  It’s a 180 from the ‘workman-like’ vocal of “My Best Days Are Ahead of Me” and this one is a strong contender to sit next to Miranda’s “House That Built Me” as the best singles of 2010.

Read Matt’s full list of this and other great country songs at http://www.roughstock.com/blog/mid-year-report-my-25-favorite-singles/ .

“I Will Not Say Goodbye” Hits Country Radio As Most Added New Single!

Students from Sophia’s Heart Music & Arts Program to Open for Danny’s 4th of July Performance at Summerfest in Milwaukee

Danny has this week’s most added single at country radio, with the poignant “I Will Not Say Goodbye” topping the most-added lists for Billboard and Country Aircheck stations quick to show their support for the powerful new ballad.

It’s an exciting week all around for Gokey, who’ll celebrate the 4th of July with a return to his Milwaukee hometown for a headlining performance on the final night of Summerfest. Billed as “The World’s Largest Music Festival,” the 11-day, multi-stage festival will feature Gokey headlining the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard Stage with an opening act close to his heart.

Milwaukee central-city school students participating in the after-school Sophia’s Heart Music & Arts Program – part of Gokey’s Sophia’s Heart Foundation – will showcase their talents, with the Sophia’s Heart Children’s Community Choir featuring 7th and 8th grade students, led by Music Director Jeff Krumbein, and the Sophia’s Heart Children’s Dance Team, led by Dance Instructor Val Young.

The Sophia’s Heart Music & Arts Program works to encourage students to live their dreams and provides a safe place for children to strive toward attaining their dreams through setting goals, discipline, and practice. For more on the good work of Sophia’s Heart, visit them online at www.sophiasheart.org.

Complete schedules and information on Summerfest can be found at www.summerfest.com.

Danny’s “I Will Not Say Goodbye,” a song The New York Times calls “devastating,” is the newest single from Danny’s debut album, My Best Days, which also features his recent hit, “My Best Days Are Ahead of Me.”

Source: Official MySpace

K-Frog (California): Danny Gokey’s Favorite Season

Click HERE to listen to the audio.

It’s really short but it’s sweet.

What IS Danny Gokey’s favorite season?  You get 4 to choose from… Growing up in Milwaukee, Danny has definitely seen his share of snow and cold weather.  He says he’d gladly skip all the other seasons and get directly to his favorite summertime! And he has the dream so many of us have, to live on an island or by the ocean somewhere!

“Summer…I love bein’ by the ocean. I eventually want to live on a (laughs) on a island or somethin’. So, if I could live in summer my whole life, I would do it. Get rid of all these other seasons.”

TheBoot.com: Danny Gokey Gets a Shout-Out From Keith Urban

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Not a lot new, but we just love reading this story…

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Country artists are just as likely as anyone to be starstruck by a celebrity encounter, and Danny Gokey certainly had stars in his eyes when he met Keith Urban backstage at the recent CMT Music Awards.

“I was walking down the hallway, and Keith Urban called me by him. It was the coolest thing,” says Danny. “He was surrounded by people, but I just see him and I walk by and he goes, ‘Danny, come here.’ I went running up there, and he mentioned that his family loves my [previous] single, ‘My Best Days Are Ahead of Me.’

“He mentioned a story of how they were walking through Nashville Shores [water park] and how they heard it … and he said, ‘I know that voice.’ And he went and looked it up in a Billboard magazine, and he goes, ‘Yep, I was right.’ And he said, ‘We love that song. It’s a great song.’ I was honored. I was speechless at that moment.”

Another song Keith may like is Danny’s new single and video, ‘I Will Not Say Goodbye,’ which has just hit the airwaves. [..]

Read the full article here http://www.theboot.com/2010/06/29/danny-gokey-keith-urban-songs

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USA Today: Danny Gokey’s ‘I Will Not Say Goodbye’: The story behind the song

Danny Gokey’s first single, My Best Days Are Ahead of Me, found the singer bonding with songwriter Kent Blazy over the loss of their wives.

Likewise, I Will Not Say Goodbye finds a hopeful message coming out of a tragic story.

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Ramsey says the song was initially considered for an exclusive bonus track — until Danny recorded it. Once people at RCA heard that, it quickly made the album’s final cut and was picked as the follow-up single to My Best Days Are Ahead of Me, with some at RCA even calling it “a game-changer.” (The single goes for adds at country radio today.)

“That’s a really special song to us, and not something we would have expected to be a commercial single,” White says. “I’m thrilled that it’s having such a life and that it means so much to Danny.”

Read the full length article with much more at Brian Mansfield’s USA Today blog here

Danny Gokey on the Video Countdown Shows: Good News!

We encourage each other to vote for Danny Gokey on the country music television channel countdown shows. It’s nice to see that it yields results.

Danny’s new video for I Will Not Say Goodbye debuted at #1 its first week eligible for voting on the CMT Pure 12-Pack countdown show.

The video for Danny’s original debut single My Best Days are Ahead of Me also is #10 this week at GAC’s Top 20 show, in its 20th (!) consecutive week on the GAC countdown!

Let’s keep voting! You can also vote for IWNSG on CMT’s Top 20 countdown show, where it should debut at a later date after being established on country radio.

Vote! 93.7 The Bull Battle

93.7 The Bull has a battle between Stealing Angels’ “He Better Be Dead” and “I Will Not Say Goodbye”.  We know who should win!  Go vote now!

Danny Gokey’s ‘I Will Not Say Goodbye’ #1 Country Music Video on iTunes!

Danny’s stunning ‘I Will Not Say Goodbye’ music video reached #1 on the iTunes Country Music Videos Chart!

Congrats, Danny!!!

Have you bought it yet?

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