Report: DREAM THEATER Causing 'Chaos' With New Album
June 28, 2007, 17 years ago
Billboard.com has issued the following report from Christa L. Titus:
DREAM THEATER's top 20 entrance onto The Billboard 200 is a vindication in triplicate for the New York band. The #19 debut for Systematic Chaos heralds the group's best start for an album, its best sales week (36,000) since 1994's Awake and it's first breath of air inside the top 20.
"Chaos" also represents an unexpectedly sweet beginning with Roadrunner Records, which signed the act last December. Unhappy with being shifted among Warner Music Group's labels and receiving minimal promotion for records following Awake, the prog rockers hoped they would get dropped when their eight-album option was up for renewal. But EastWest, then Elektra, then Atlantic, kept picking it up, so Dream Theater self-promoted albums with yearlong tours pegged to the release dates and constant contact with fans through its website.
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