SCORPIONS' 'Sting In The Tail' Projected To Sell 18K-22K First Week
March 24, 2010According to Hits Daily Double, the companion web site of music industry tip sheet HITS, "Sting In The Tail", the new album from German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS, is on track to sell between 18,000 and 22,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release.
SCORPIONS' last CD, "Humanity - Hour 1", opened with 10,500 units back in September 2007 to land at position No. 63 on The Billboard 200 chart.
"Sting In The Tail" was released in North America on March 23 via Universal Music Enterprises. The CD was recorded at a studio in Hannover, Germany with Swedish producers Mikael "Nord" Andersson and Martin Hansen (the team behind THE RASMUS' "Dead Letters" CD).
SCORPIONS — known worldwide for their mega, arena hard rock and over 100 million records sold — will travel the globe one last time on the "Get Your Sting And Blackout" tour. Kicking off the North American leg in June, the tour will take the band across the U.S. all summer and continue on around the world with special guests supporting along the way.
As previously reported, former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen will perform the song "The Good Die Young" with SCORPIONS on Germany's talk show "Wetten, Dass..?" on Saturday, March 27. The song was written "about people who stand up for peace and freedom," according to singer Klaus Meine. "In a world that gets out of balance more and more every day, we try to put this feeling into music."
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