IRON MAIDEN Special To Air On PLANET ROCK

August 20, 2010

A one-hour IRON MAIDEN special will air on Planet Rock on Saturday, August 21 at 6:00 p.m. U.K. time and will be repeated on Thursday, August 26 at 11:00 p.m.

Planet Rock's Liz Barnes flew to Chicago to interview IRON MAIDEN about the British heavy metal legends' latest album. In this special, Bruce Dickinson, Steve Harris and Adrian Smith talk through "The Final Frontier" and debut some of the brand new tracks.

Planet Rock was honored in the "Digital Station Of The Year 2010" category at the recent Radio Academy Sony Awards.

Planet Rock is the home of Alice Cooper's breakfast show, "Breakfast with Alice", and Rick Wakeman's Saturday show.

Planet Rock broadcasts on digital radio, Sky 0110, Virgin Media 924, Freesat 703, online at www.planetrock.com and on iPhone.

"The Final Frontier" is likely to sell between 65,000 and 70,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to industry web site Hits Daily Double. The estimate was based on one-day sales reports compiled after the record arrived in stores on August 17. That number will be good enough to secure the veteran British heavy metal band the No. 3 spot on next week's The Billboard 200 chart — behind EMINEM's "Recovery" and Detroit-raised R&B star KEM's "Intimacy: Album III".

IRON MAIDEN's previous album, 2006's "A Matter Of Life And Death", opened with 56,000 units to land at position No. 9 on The Billboard 200 chart. This was a notable increase from the 40,000 first-week tally registered by its predecessor, 2003's "Dance of Death" (which debuted at No. 18 on The Billboard 200 chart),and that of "Brave New World", which moved 38,000 copies in June 2000 to land at No. 39 on The Billboard 200 chart.

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