ADVISORY/Album Release Party for Superstar USHER.Entertainment Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday (March 23) NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2004 Susan Blond Susan Blond, the quintessential New York insider publicist, is the owner of entertainment and lifestyle publicity agency Susan Blond, Inc. Growing up in New York City, Blond attended the elite High School of Music and Art (now known as Fiorello H. , Inc.
WHO: "The Ultimate Entertainer" USHER
WHAT: Album release party celebrating the highly anticipated
5th album, CONFESSIONS
WHERE: BLVD
199 Bowery (at Spring Street)
New York City
WHEN: TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2004
10 PM - 2 AM
9 PM (TV Crews and Photographers Red Carpet Arrivals Only)
Following a special live performance for AOL's Broadband Rocks Concert Series at Webster Hall Webster Hall is a nightclub in New York City. It is located at 125 East 11th Street, between 3rd and 4th Avenues. It acts as a concert venue, nightclub and corporate events center. on Tuesday, March 23, 2004, USHER will celebrate the release of his eagerly awaited 5th album, CONFESSIONS, due in stores that day. The lavish affair, sponsored by AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Broadband, Marithe Francois Girbaud, Hpnotiq, and Solstice solstice (sŏl`stĭs) [Lat.,=sun stands still], in astronomy, either of the two points on the ecliptic that lie midway between the equinoxes (separated from them by an angular distance of 90°). Eyewear, will bring together friends from the worlds of music, fashion, and film. CONFESSIONS is the follow-up album to USHER's 8701 (released August 7, 2001). 8701 was a 4x-platinum smash in the U.S. that went on to sell over 6 million copies around the world. The first two singles from the album, "U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad," spent multiple weeks together at #1 pop and #1 R&B, a feat Usher first achieved back in 1998 with "Nice & Slow" (featuring Jagged Edge), from his 6x-platinum album My Way. "U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad" also had the rare distinction of winning USHER consecutive Grammy awards Grammy Awards Annual awards given by the Recording Academy (officially the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences). The first Grammies (the name is a dimunitive of “gramophone”) were given in 1958. for 2001 and 2002 in the category of Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. CONFESSIONS promises to be a smash hit out of the box. First single "YEAH!" originally an underground club popper An early Unix POP server, which was written at the University of California at Berkeley. , took the mainstream charts by storm, landing at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. "YEAH!" has been at #1 for 5 weeks and continues to increase its lead at radio, reaching over 162 million listeners. Featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, "YEAH!" has been in heavy rotation at pop and urban radio as well as at MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. , BET, and VH-1. In addition to the runaway success of "YEAH!", the second single off of CONFESSIONS, the steamy slow jam "BURN," is flying up the charts as well. As Billboard's Greatest Gainer, "BURN" skyrocketed to number #33 in just two weeks and continues its climb this week. INVITE ONLY: Please contact Simone Smalls at Susan Blond, Inc. at 212-333-7728 x118 or 917-541-6504 or simone@susanblondinc.com. |
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