Report: FOREIGNER Hopes To Follow Success Of AC/DC, JOURNEY With Wal-Mart Exclusive New Album
July 27, 2009, 15 years ago
Ed Christman from Billboard.com is reporting:
Wal-Mart's exclusive September 29 release of FOREIGNER's Can't Slow Down will be its first major exclusive since AC/DC's Black Ice in October. The album (Foreigner's first since 1995's Mr. Moonlight) has much in common with JOURNEY's 2008 Wal-Mart-only release, Revelation. Like its predecessor, Can't Slow Down will be a three-disc set that features a CD of new material, a concert DVD and a best-of collection. But whereas Revelation included a CD of rerecorded Journey favorites, Foreigner remixed the band's original master recordings to make its hits sound more contemporary.
Perhaps most noticeable to longtime fans of both bands, each release features a replacement lead singer - in Foreigner's case, Kelly Hansen, who takes the place of original frontman Lou Gramm.
Despite the absence of original Journey lead singer Steve Perry, Revelation sold 633,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In its debut week that ended June 8, 2008, it sold nearly 105,000 copies, good enough to reach No. 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Black Ice sold 2.1 million US copies, including 784,000 in its debut week that ended October 26, 2008.
It won't be easy for Can't Slow Down to match the success of Revelation or Black Ice. During the past year, overall US recorded-music sales have continued to tumble, with CD sales plunging 21.2 percent in the first half of 2009 from a year earlier.
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