Posted July 29, 201113 yr Chili Peppers and Kasabian dominate pre-order charts Source: MW Wednesday July 27, 2011 Red Hot Chili Peppers are building up strong pre-orders ahead of the release of new album, I'm With You, in four weeks' time. It sits at number two in the HMV and Amazon pre-order charts and at number one with Play.com. The profile of the Warner Bros album has been boosted over the last couple of weeks by the release of a download of first single The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie - albeit earlier than intended, as a result of a leak. The announcement of UK and Ireland tour dates this November and a range of interviews has also helped build interest in the album - the first in five years - which will be released in the UK on August 30. Despite being veterans of the rock circuit, the group have been adept at using social networks to build and nurture audiences. The band's Facebook page has 11.6 million Likes, with offers and interviews while the official YouTube post of Rain Dance Maggie has been seen well over 500,000 times. Also performing well on pre-orders is Kasabian's Velociraptor! (Columbia), which leads the HMV charts and is at seven with Amazon. The new single Days Are Forgotten has created additional buzz around the album, which will be released on September 19. The group has released a free download of the first single Switchblade Smiles to bolster pre-orders. Bombay Bicyle Club are also looking strong with A Different Kind Of Fix (Island), at number seven with HMV and number four with Play.com. Polydor's Take That: Progress Live shows signs of cashing in on the record-breaking tour, as the highest new entry on the HMV chart. Noel Gallagher with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, to be released on his own Sour Mash label, also debuts in the HMV top 10, at number eight. The other top-10 newcomer is UK rapper Wretch 32, whose Black And White Album, released on August 22 is at number nine. Laura Marling's A Creature I Don't Know (Virgin) is the highest mover, up from 20 to 12. Pink Floyd top the Amazon pre-order chart for the fifth week with Dark Side Of The Moon (EMI), which has also risen from 18-11 on the HMV chart. Progressive rockers Dream Theater are the highest climbers on the Play.com chart, up 12-6 with A Dramatic Turn Of Events (Roadrunner). Evanescence are the highest new entry at 13 with Evanescence (Sony)
July 29, 201113 yr Dark Side Of The Moon? Is that getting re-released? :drama: Dream Theater are doing a new album? Maybe they can take advantage of the low sales climate and beat their 23-x chart run of their last album :P
July 29, 201113 yr Author Dark Side Of The Moon? Is that getting re-released? :drama: Yep... to mark its 40th Anniversary
July 29, 201113 yr Pink Floyd top the Amazon pre-order chart for the fifth week with Dark Side Of The Moon (EMI), which has also risen from 18-11 on the HMV chart. Funny - I thought that was released nearly 40 years ago... :rolleyes:
July 29, 201113 yr Author Do you know the exact release date of it? According to Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd#Th...ide_of_the_Moon The band's next album, titled The Dark Side of the Moon (an allusion to lunacy, rather than astronomy), was recorded between May 1972 and January 1973 with EMI staff engineer Alan Parsons at Abbey Road
July 29, 201113 yr http://www.billboard.com/news/pink-floyd-s...005244172.story September 26th it seems
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