Well, I plan here to completely waste my time and effort with another public relations update at 5.30 am, with no sleep behind me.
First off, Projekt: Revolution kicks off Tuesday in Rochester, NY. The dates are as follows. Memorise and love...
Apr 08 - Rochester, NY - Blue Cross Arena
Apr 09 - State College, PA - Bryce Jordan Center
Apr 11 - Evansville, IN - Roberts Stadium
Apr 12 - Memphis, TN - Mid-South Coliseum
Apr 13 - New Orleans, LA - Keifer UNO Lakefront Arena
Apr 15 - El Paso, TX - Don Haskins Center
Apr 16 - Albuquerque, NM - Tingley Coliseum
Apr 18 - Phoenix, AZ - America West Arena
Apr 19 - Tucson, AZ - Tucson Convention Center
Apr 21 - Salt Lake City, UT - E Center
Apr 22 - Boise, ID - Idaho Center
Apr 23 - Spokane, WA - Spokane Arena
Apr 25 - Billings, MT - MetraPark Arena
Apr 26 - Rapid City, SD - Rushmore Plaza Civic Center
If you are lucky enough to have M&G access to these shows, this will be before the show. Once inside the venue, you will not be allowed back out (we're serious, we want to take you all on tour with us!!). Meet and Greet passes will be picked up inside. You will be separated into LPUers and others inside, so if you're with a non-LPU friend, they will get in early and have a great spot to stand in. As the Meet and Greet is early, one would hope you haven't signed up if you can't attend. Girls and boys, that is plain selfish.
Keep yourself up-to-date with the
Projekt: Revolution player...
Also, a big old congratulations for us all, please. A pat on the back for the 18 months of hard work that have made Meteora number 1 album in 16 countries - the United States, Spain, Slovenia, the UK, Japan, Germany, Italy, Austria, Chile, Indonesia, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland Taiwan, the Czech Republic and Hong Kong. Check out Meteora in stores now.
All 9 episodes of LPTV are now out and about. You can check for yourself on
the Meteora player, along with a load of other stuff. Don't ask what, go and find out yourselves.
You may or may not be interested in the knowledge that members of the Armed Forces get to see us free on the 8th. It's a small gesture, we know, and probably appears facile. But it's a gesture none-the-less.
For the rest of you number crunchers, chew on this one and then tell us about sophomore albums:
01. LINKIN PARK WARNER BROS. 833,670
METEORA
02. CELINE DION EPIC 455,215
ONE HEART
03. NOW 12 CAPITOL 249,805
VARIOUS
04. 50 CENT SHADY/AM/INTERSCOPE 198,336
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'
05. NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE 139,563
It is still unclear how many copies were sold in the UK so the current worldwide total sales for Meteora are unknown. What is known is that LP will go platinum by next week in the US.
Also this totally beats Hybrid Theory in first week sales as HT sold a mere 50,000 copies in the first week. Meteora has it beat by a good 783,000 copies.
Platinum in two weeks. Can't be bad.
Anyways. I'm going to click update and sort this into something approaching coherrent when I'm more awake...