GUNS N' ROSES - Chinese Democracy To Be Released To Rock Band Music Store Catalog Of Downloadable Content

April 10, 2009, 15 years ago

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BraveWords.com has received the following press release:

Harmonix and MTV Games announced today that Chinese Democracy, the sixth and most recent album from Guns N’ Roses, will be released in its entirety to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content on April 14th. The highly anticipated November 2008 release of Chinese Democracy was Guns N’ Roses’ first official music release in 15 years. It debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart, at #2 on the UK Albums chart and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on February 3, 2009. Chinese Democracy has already sold nearly three million copies.

Formed in the early '80s in Los Angeles, Guns N’ Roses has sold an estimated 100 million albums worldwide. The band’s 1987 major label debut Appetite for Destruction, featuring the hits 'Welcome To The Jungle', 'Paradise City' and 'Sweet Child O’ Mine', has sold in excess of 28 million copies and remains to this day the fastest-selling debut album in history.

Next week’s Rock Band Music Store lineup will feature 13 songs from Chinese Democracy. With 'Shackler’s Revenge' from Chinese Democracy already featured on the Rock Band 2 soundtrack, the DLC album includes the following tracks:

Tracks: 'Chinese Democracy', 'Better', 'Street Of Dreams', 'If The World', 'There Was A Time', 'Catcher In The Rye', 'Scraped', 'Riad N’ The Bedouins', 'Sorry', 'I.R.S. 'Madagascar', 'This I Love', 'Prostitute'. (All tracks are original master recordings)

The tracks will be available for purchase as an album or individual tracks for Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 system. The tracks will be available for purchase as individual tracks only for Wii.

Release Dates:

Tuesday, April 14 - Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360 and in-game Rock Band 2 Music Store for Wii

Thursday, April 16 - PlayStation Store

Price:

$1.99 or 160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360 per track

$2.00 or 200 Wii Points for Wii per track

$19.99 (1600 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for album[2]

Locations:

Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360

PlayStation® Network

In-game Rock Band 2 Music Store for Wii


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