We Are the Fallen, a group composed of Season 7 sixth-place finalist Carly Smithson and former Evanescence band members, saw its debut album Tear the World Down debut at #31 with 13.7k copies, which is relatively healthy for an album having to do with an non-winner alum from a few seasons ago nowadays.
Down only two spots from the previous week to #33 was Carrie Underwood's Play On, which fell a mild 32% sales-wise this week for a 13.4k weekly take.
Try this: I dare you to look for full sales figures from Billboard later on in the week.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
HITS estimates: 'Tear the World Down' #31 w/ 13.7k
Sunday, August 16, 2009
We Are The Fallen testing "Bury Me Alive" on HitPredictor
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There was a big hoopla surrounding Carly Smithson and ex-members of Evanescence with the announcement of a new collaboration through the formation of a new band, We Are The Fallen, in late June. Although things have cooled off since the announcement, the band has still been posting regularly on its official Facebook fan page.
One thing the band stated back when the announcement was made was that they would be taking a nontraditional approach in releasing music. Instead of recording a bunch of songs and then releasing an album, they are going to release songs as singles every so often and then create a compilation out of the singles in the form of an album. But when it comes to the band's first single "Bury Me Alive," not much has been happening with the song since it was put on its official music MySpace page and made available as a free download to the first 100,000 fans. It did, however, appear on the music testing site HitPredictor.com (formerly Promosquad.com), which signals that the band might be interested in sending the single to radio.
The only question is, which format is being targeted here? The mystery will continue to unravel.
Friday, June 19, 2009
'Idol' odds 'n ends: Carly Smithson to front new band The Fallen
The following are Idol-related odds and ends that happened this week:
>Carly Smithson will serve as the lead singer of a new start-up band consisting of three former members of Evanescence (Ben Moody, and a bassist that worked with Kelly Clarkson and Disturbed. Per the original article by Brian Mason of USA Today:"This all happened by accident," says Smithson, who sang Evanescence's Bring Me to Life during the 2008 Idols Live tour. She's friends with Moody's housemate, Monique Morrison. "I met him once or twice (at the house) before the band thing," says Smithson, who had been working on a solo project.
The Fallen will release its first single, "Bury Me Alive," on their official Web site (WeAreTheFallen.com) on Monday and plan to release songs individually over the course of the next year and a half before working on an album.
>People magazine's 10th annual "Hottest Bachelors" edition was revealed this week, and a certain Idol runner-up made the cut. Adam Lambert was named as one of the hottest bachelors alive. Upon hearing the news, Adam said:"Am I really? I'm not hot!" Adam Lambert responds in disbelief when Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell reveals the news that he is listed on People magazine's 10th annual list of Sexy & Single Men in 2009. He, however, quickly adds, "That's pretty cool. That's really cool."
The current issue of People is now available on newsstands everywhere.
>Another runner-up was in the news this week, but for more negative reasons. David Archuleta's father, James Jeffrey Archuleta, was nabbed for solicitation of a prostitute at a massage parlor back in January in Midvale, Utah. Archuleta's attorney, Erik Bauer, responded to the news:“He did not go there for sex and that was it and pure, plain and simple that’s the way it was,” Bauer said. “He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He’s a good man and we hope this story won’t cause his family any embarrassment.”
The services reportedly cost $582, so it seems that Arch Sr. asked for the works.
>Chris Daughtry appeared on FOX Business Network's America's Nightly Scoreboard on Tuesday to promote his band's forthcoming album Leave This Town. Watch the interview below:
Chris discussed the diversity of the music found on Leave This Town and responded to a question regarding the possibility of attempting to do musical theatre in the future, saying that he's thought about it and has done some acting (like the 100th episode of CSI: NY) but he is solely focused on music at this point.
>Fantasia did a photo shoot with Derek Blanks. More photos from the shoot can be seen here.Fantasia will next return to the musical The Color Purple as Celie, only this time she will be joining the national tour for its Washington D.C., Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles dates. The tour currently stars Fantasia's fellow Season 3 alum LaToya London. In addition to the tour, Fantasia will have the chance to reprise the role of Celie on the silver screen when she begins filming later this year.
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