IN FLAMES: More 'A Sense Of Purpose' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed
April 21, 2008"A Sense of Purpose", the new album from Swedish metallers IN FLAMES, has registered the following first-week chart positions:
Sweden: #1
European Top 100 Albums (Biillboard): #7
USA: #28
Canada: # 7
Germany: #6
UK: #54
Finland: #3
Austria: #6
Japan: #14
Switzerland: #29
Denmark: #39
Netherlands: #70
Norway: #17
Ireland: #85
Denmark: #39
Spain: #90
The Netherlands: #70
Belgium: #65
"A Sense of Purpose" (Koch) shifted 20,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release. This is slightly less than the opening tally of "Come Clarity" (Ferret),which sold just under 24,000 copies in February 2006 to debut at position No. 58.
Nuclear Blast Records has released a spherical labyrinth box set edition of "A Sense of Purpose". Strictly limited to 1,500 copies, the set contains a wooden spherical labyrinth (size 280 x 232 x 78 mm, outer wall 15 mm higher) including a metal ball with the IN FLAMES logo and the album plus a bonus DVD. It also comes with a numbered certificate of authenticity.
The spherical labyrinth box set edition of "A Sense of Purpose" is available from the Nuclear Blast Mail Order.
IN FLAMES recently set a new MySpace Sweden record for the number of plays of an entire album within a one-week period. "A Sense of Purpose" was streamed 1,094,749 times for the week endng April 2, crushing the previous record on MySpace Sweden, which was held by MESHUGGAH's "ObZen" (255,000 plays).
IN FLAMES will perform at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2008 awards ceremony on Monday, June 16 at the IndigO2 (O2 Arena) in London, UK.
IN FLAMES is nominated in two categories at the event, which is organized by the monthly UK magazine Metal Hammer:
* Best International Band
* Shredder (Jesper Strmblad)
For a complete list of this year's nominees, click here.
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