RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - The Getaway Album Debuts At #1 Around The World

June 27, 2016, 8 years ago

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RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - The Getaway Album Debuts At #1 Around The World

Grammy Award-winning Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees, Red Hot Chili Peppers, released their 11th studio album, The Getaway, via Warner Bros. Records on June 17th. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Album Sales Chart selling 108,000 traditional units and debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 with 118,000 album equivalent units. The Getaway, marks the Grammy Award-winning band's seventh top 10 album and third #2 on the Top 200 Chart.

The album debuted at # 1 in Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands and New Zealand.  It debuted at #2 in the United Kingdom and Germany.

The Getaway tracklisting:

“The Getaway”
“Dark Necessities”
“We Turn Red”
“The Longest Wave”
“Goodbye Angels”
“Sick Love”
“Go Robot”
“Feasting On The Flowers”
“Detroit”
“This Ticonderoga”
“Encore”
“The Hunter”
“Dreams Of A Samurai”

"Dark Necessities" video:

“We Turn Red”:

“The Getaway”:

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are featured in a new edition of The Late Late Show With James Corden’s popular segment, Carpool Karaoke. James invites Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer to carpool around Los Angeles, which leads to a wrestling match and the debut of "Heemi Lheemey”. Watch below:

The band will perform at a variety of music festivals around the world this summer, including headlining Lollapalooza in Chicago on July 30th. Please see below for all upcoming dates.

June
29-July 2 - Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
30-July 3 - Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival

July
2 - Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
6 - Kiev, Ukraine - U-Park Festival
9 - Moscow, Russia - Park Live
10 - Perthshire, Scotland - T in the Park
15 - Ottawa, Canada - Ottawa Bluesfest
16 - Quebec City, Canada - Festival d'été de Quebec
22-24 - Yuzawa-cho, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival
22-24 - Jinsan, South Korea - Valley Rock Festival
29-31 - Montreal, Canada - Osheaga Festival
30 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza

August
25 - Belfast, Northern Ireland - Tennent's Vital
26-27 - Reading, England - Reading Festival
26-27 - Leeds, England - Leeds Festival

(Photo - Steve Keros)


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