TicketNews announces its exclusive weekly Top 10s and analysis for the week of 4/30/07 – 5/06/07. Jimmy Buffett moved into the top 10 for Overall Events, placing at number 8. Buffett also climbed the Top Concerts list from number 8 to number 2, just behind Kenny Chesney.

Jimmy Buffett appeared at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder’s meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday. Berkshire Hathaway is led by “Uncle Warren” Buffett, a distant cousin of Jimmy.

From the AP: Jimmy Buffett Opens Berkshire Meeting

The chief “parrothead” joked that as Warren’s distant cousin, he was taking over for the 76-year-old billionaire chairman and chief executive.

Then Jimmy Buffett sang a version of his hit song “Margaritaville” that had been rewritten to honor Berkshire Hathaway and its companies.

And a second article from Reuters: Buffett Says May Hire 4 CIOs, Insurance To Weaken”

The singing Buffett, who performed a version of his hit “Margaritaville” adapted for the meeting, stumbled through lyrics placed at his feet. “Warren gave me a really big budget for a Teleprompter here,” he joked.

The Press of Atlantic City has an article on the rush to get tickets Monday morning for the June 30th concert in Atlantic City: “Parrotheads pounce on Atlantic City Buffett tickets”

Except for some scattered single seats, tickets to Jimmy Buffett’s June 30 Boardwalk Hall concert sold out in less than five minutes Monday morning.

Read the rest of the article here.

The Dallas Morning News has a review of Buffett’s show in Frisco, Texas on Saturday night: “Buffett’s Frisco concert full of the fun”

Jason Janik / DMN

As he has thousands of times in thousands of cities, Mr. Buffett wowed the crowd at Pizza Hut Park with a nearly three-hour show that made everyone feel they were well into happy hour. So annoying at baseball games, beach balls are anything but at a Buffett concert. They rain through the air by the hundreds, as grown-ups wearing parrot noses and parrot heads, flowered shirts, hula skirts and pirate suits sashay and dance with smiles on their faces as the graying, balding maestro sings of “Growing Older But Not Up.” Read the entire review here.

Jimmy Buffett was at Jazz Fest in New Orleans today to take part in a tribute to the late Ed Bradley.

Bradley, who died in November, had wanted to be remembered at the festival with a “second line” parade, so-called because watchers often fall in to form a second line of paraders.

Buffett took credit for giving Bradley the nickname “Teddy Badly.” About 45 of Bradley’s friends participating in the parade wore small green pins with the name “Teddy” printed on them.

Read the entire article here.