According to Billboard.com, AEROSMITH ranks second on the the Hot Tours list with ticket sales counts reported from three venues on the Latin American leg of its Back On The Road Tour that launched in late October. This week's totals include grosses from Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. The October 26th performance in Paraguay was an outdoor concert for 32,000 fans staged at the Jockey Club, a horseracing track in the city of Asunción. Two days later the band was in Argentina and played to a crowd of 38,000 at Estadio Único Ciudad de La Plata, a soccer stadium in the Buenos Aires market, grossing over $3.8 million (US$) from one performance. The last of this week's reported concerts was an October 30th event held at Arena Anhembi, an open-air concert site in São Paulo, Brazil. Attendance was just over 29,000 with a gross of $2.9 million (US$). Following the Latin American leg, the band will perform in seven Japanese markets before wrapping the brief tour on December 10th.

Aerosmith will celebrate the 35th anniversary of their iconic 1976 album, Rocks, with a special edition release due out November 23rd, 2011 in Japan. The release will coincide with Aerosmith's fall tour through Japan, kicking off Tuesday, November 22nd in Kanazawa.

Rocks - 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition contents:

- Rocks, Japan edition CD (jewel case with a replica of a golden spine onsert for Japanese LP sleeve)
- the first Japan tour programme Replica (28-page)
- the first Japan tour poster replica (Nippon Budokan version)
- the first Japan tour ticket replica (from the first show at Gunma Sport Center)
- Japanese 7" singles' artwork replicas ('Home Tonight' / 'Back In The Saddle' / 'Last Child')
- four postcards of photos from the Rocks era

* all housed in a clear, plastic case

The raw and raucous Rocks is the fourth album by Aerosmith, released May 3, 1976 and featured such stand-out tracks like 'Back In The Saddle', 'Rats In The Cellar', 'Sick As A Dog' and 'Nobody's Fault'. The album peaked at #3 in the US, #14 in Canada and #46 in Sweden.

Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler says that the band's new album is almost done and should be released in March. Aerosmith have been recording with long-time producer Jack Douglas (who worked on such classic albums as 1974's Get Your Wings, 1975's Toys In The Attic, and the aforementioned Rocks album) on their 14th studio album and first set of original material since 2001's Just Push Play and first studio album since 2004's blues covers CD, Honkin' On Bobo.

Douglas stated about the process in a recent online update: "For those who are asking, this album will be raw, nasty, tough rock with a good deal of the old Aerosmith 'tongue in cheek.'"