Church broke the concert attendance record at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois' on Friday with 18,626 fans on hand to witness the show. The previous record of 18,452 was set in 2007 by Vicente Fern�ndez.

The country star had the following to say about the new milestone, "Our journey in the city started in 2005 for about 20 people on Weed Street at a place called Joe's Bar. Those 20 were loud and proud, and they turned this thing into damn near 20,000."

Church will play the next stop of The Outsiders World Tour on March 26 in Tallahassee, Florida at the Leon Country Civic Center and he will also be performing at the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards on April 19th which will be broadcast on CBS.