When I first heard that a band called Shinedown was coming to the Missouri State Fair, my initial reaction was one of confusion. I had really never heard of this band before that point, and I was even more confused when their concert turned out to be one of this year’s highest selling shows. (To be fair, I hadn’t heard of Gary Allan either, but I just figured he was some country singer because there have been a lot of country singers coming to the fair throughout the years who I couldn’t recognize by name.)
I don’t track the music charts, but I usually end up hearing about the most popular musical acts because of a fluff news story about them or because of their advertised appearance on a talk show or something like that. I had never heard any mention of Shinedown up until a couple of weeks ago, or at least none that I remember. Let’s just say that there weren’t enough instances like that to make me think that Shinedown had reached such a high level of popularity.
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