NIGHTWISH Hit US Billboard Chart With Endless Forms Most Beautiful
April 8, 2015, 9 years ago
Finland-based symphonic metal masters Nightwish sold 18,342 copies of Endless Forms Most Beautiful in its first week of sales in the United States. The record hit #34 on Billboard US Top 200, making it the third time that Nightwish made the coveted chart. Their last full length release in 2011 Imaginaerum, sold just under 12,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful first-week chart positions in the US:
#34 - Billboard Top 200 Albums
#23 - Top Current Albums
#2 - Independent Albums
#4 - Top Hard Music Albums
#8 - Top Current Rock Albums
Endless Forms Most Beautiful has been released in several different formats. Go to this location for details. The detailed cover-artwork was created by longtime collaborator Toxic Angel.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful is the first Nightwish studio album to feature Dutch vocalist Floor Jansen. Longtime drummer Jukka Nevalainen sat out on the recording sessions due to health issues; Kai Hahto (Wintersun) replaces him. Nightwish also revealed the famed evolutionary biologist and writer, Professor Richard Dawkins as a guest on this eighth studio album.
Nightwish have announced their Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Europe 2015 tour, kicking off mid-November in the Danish capital Copenhagen. Joining Nightwish on the road will be Finnish labelmates Amorphis, as well as Swedish death metal outfit Arch Enemy.
Tour dates:
November
18 - Hamburg, Germany - O2 World
19 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Heineken Music Hall
21 - Oberhausen, Germany - König-Pilsener-Arena
23 - Lyon, France - Hall Tony Garnier
25 - Paris, France - POPB-Bercy
26 - Toulouse, France - Le Zénith
28 - Basel, Switzerland - St. Jakobshalle
29 - Bologna, Italy - Unipol Arena
December
3 - Stuttgart, Germany - Schleyerhalle
4 - Frankfurt, Germany - Jahrhunderthalle
5 - Nürnberg, Germany - Arena
7 - Prague, Czech Republic - Tip Sport Arena Prague
10 - Bucharest, Romania - Romexpo
14 - Leipzig, Germany - Arena
15. - Berlin Max, Germany - Schmeling-Halle
17 - Antwerp, Belgium - Lotto Arena
Additionally, Nightwish will play a one-off show at the world famous Wembley SSE Arena in London on December 19th, making them the ever Finnish band to headline this famous venue.
Check out the first video for the track “Élan” (directed by Ville Lipiäinen) below:
