ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A country music artist whose first three albums have sold a total of 5 million copies is the first main grandstand headliner announced for Allentown Fair.
Kane Brown, best known for his 11-times-platinum hit "Heaven" and his nine-times-platinum hit “What Ifs” with Lauren Alaina, will perform at 7 p.m. Aug. 29.
Tickets, at $119, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 31 at the fair's website or at its box office on Allentown Fairgrounds at 17th and Liberty streets.
Tickets, at $119, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 31 at the fair's website or at its box office on Allentown Fairgrounds at 17th and Liberty streets.Allentown Fair announcement
Special box office hours will from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 7. All show tickets include admission into the fair.
The fair also is offering discount ride tickets, half price fair admission, and prepaid premium concert parking.
The fair this year will run Aug. 28-Sept. 2.
Brown is scheduled to release his fourth studio album, "The High Road," on Friday, Jan. 24.
The disc will include Brown's latest No. 1 Country Airplay hit, “Miles On It (featuring Marshmello)," as well as his current Top 40 hit, “Backseat Driver.”
Brown's first two albums went to No. 1 on the country chart, and he has had 26 gold and platinum hits in less than a decade — with 12 of them hitting No. 1.
His singles have sold a head-spinning 65 million copies.
Strong career from the start
Brown's recording career started with a whirlwind three years beginning with his platinum debut single “Used to Love You Sober.”
His 2016 self-titled debut disc topped the Country Albums chart, crossed over to No. 5 on Billboard’s overall Albums chart, and sold triple platinum.
He won three American Music Award country categories — Male Artist, Country Album and Country Song — for “Heaven,” and was nominated for the Academy of Country Music’s New Male Vocalist of the Year.
Brown’s second album, “Experiment” in 2018 charted even higher, crossing over to No. 1 on the overall Albums chart. It produced the No. 1 hits “Lose It,” which went triple platinum, and “Good As You, which sold four-times platinum.
That gave him four straight No. 1 singles.
Brown also has collaborated with artists of other genres. His song "Saturday Nights" (Remix) with Khalid sold four times platinum, and "One Thing Right" with electronic DJ Marshmello, three times platinum.
“One Thing Right” also topped the country charts.
His third album, 2022's "Different Man," sold platinum and peaked at No. 2 on the Country chart, but produced the triple platinum hit "Thank God (with Katelyn Brown)" and three No. 1 hits — "Like I Love Country Music," "One Mississippi" and "Bury Me in Georgia."
Brown performed a near-sellout show at Allentown's PPL Center in 2020.
