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 U.S. Top 200, making it the third time that NIGHTWISH made the coveted chart. The 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
Produced by Tero “TeeCee” Kinnunen, the title for Endless Forms Most Beautiful was taken from the writings of English naturalist Charles Darwin. The album features the participation of London’s The Metro Voices choir group, London’s Young Musicians Children‘s Choir, and the Orchestre De Grandeur led by the esteemed orchestral arranger Pip Williams, who teaches Music and Music Technology at the London College of Music. Professor Richard Dawkins not only narrates the introduction to the album’s opener, “Shudder Before The Beautiful,” but also the album’s closer, “The Greatest Show On Earth,” which takes its name from his 2009 book on evolution.
NIGHTWISH’s 27-date headlining tour of North America for 2015 launches in New York City on April 9, 2015 and travels to three Canadian cities plus Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles before closing out in Silver Springs, Maryland on May 14th. Direct support will come from Swedish heavy metallers SABATON; opening will be Dutch symphonic metallers DELAIN.
!['Finland-based symphonic metal masters @[14644790067:274: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 U.S. Top 200, making it the third time that NIGHTWISH made the coveted chart. The 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
Produced by Tero “TeeCee” Kinnunen, the title for Endless Forms Most Beautiful was taken from the writings of English naturalist Charles Darwin. The album features the participation of London’s The Metro Voices choir group, London’s Young Musicians Children‘s Choir, and the Orchestre De Grandeur led by the esteemed orchestral arranger Pip Williams, who teaches Music and Music Technology at the London College of Music. Professor Richard Dawkins not only narrates the introduction to the album’s opener, “Shudder Before The Beautiful,” but also the album’s closer, “The Greatest Show On Earth,” which takes its name from his 2009 book on evolution.
NIGHTWISH’s 27-date headlining tour of North America for 2015 launches in New York City on April 9, 2015 and travels to three Canadian cities plus Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles before closing out in Silver Springs, Maryland on May 14th. Direct support will come from Swedish heavy metallers @[7545529867:274:Sabaton]; opening will be Dutch symphonic metallers @[43033329534:274:Delain].'](https://scontent.fssz2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/11088335_10155424059225068_6458957415796835646_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=bd3b50&_nc_ohc=Nt9OAeeynjYAX9Zw2_B&_nc_oc=AQmTteNbtO1G-FSUgXQ2sxPONH11JS6bTAIsB5SnUYneKEn490bXR1XO-yWBUgArDjFnV42XgtdhCDmg1Doz25Ja&_nc_ht=scontent.fssz2-1.fna&edm=AN6CN6oEAAAA&oh=00_AT93tfS4c1vU83wgM-KGCeJmxCy7h0pQcnETJyK2X3HeLA&oe=62407DC2)