LOU REED & METALLICA - US, Canada Chart Entries For Lulu Album Revealed
November 9, 2011, 13 years ago
LOU REED & METALLICA's collaboration, Lulu, has landed at #36 on The Billboard 200 chart in the US, selling 13,000 copies in it's first week of release. In Canada, Lulu premiers on the album charts at #26.
First-week chart positions for Lulu now include:
Australia: #33
Belgium: #30
Canada: #26
Finland: #20
Netherlands: #17
Norway: #11
Sweden: #9
UK: #36
US: #36
Lou Reed and Metallica performed two cuts from Lulu, and THE VELVET UNDERGROUND's 'White Light/White Heat' on the BBC program Later... With Jools Holland on the evening of November 8th. Check out the footage below:
On Friday evening, November 11th, Lou Reed and Metallica will be performing live for a special radio broadcast in Germany on 1LIVE, that will also be webcast on Einslive.de and Metallica.de.
Four hundred lucky fans will be in the audience, some even getting a chance to ask the guys about Lulu! The broadcast will also air on a number of Germany’s public broadcast network stations either live or at a later point, and all participating stations will also host the live stream on their websites.
For more info on the 1LIVE radio live broadcast/online-webcast, or to enter to win tickets to the event held in Cologne, please visit Einslive.de and Metallica.de. Met Club members should log in to Metallica.com for a chance to win tickets through the Club.
This event will only be webcast in Germany, however within hours of completion, it will be on LouReedAndMetallica.com for you in its entirety.
Lou Reed & Metallica's Lulu album is out now disturbing fans worldwide! LouReedMetallicaTV have posted highlights from the Lulu Listening Party that took place on October 24th in New York City.
The complete Lulu tracklisting is as follows:
'Brandenburg Gate' (4:19)
'The View' (5:17)
'Pumping Blood' (7:24)
'Mistress Dread' (6:52)
'Iced Honey' (4:36)
'Cheat On Me' (11:26)
'Frustration' (8:33)
'Little Dog' (8:01)
'Dragon' (11:08)
'Junior Dad' (19:28)
The entire album is streaming online here.
Lulu was co-produced by Reed, Metallica, Hal Willner who has produced albums for Reed, MARIANNE FAITHFUL, and LAURIE ANDERSON, among others and Greg Fidelman. Fidelman also mixed the record. A full EPK for Lulu can now be seen below: