AFI ''DECEMBERUNDERGROUND'' In at #1!!!; 182,000 Scanned First Week as Band's 7th Album Becomes Its First #1.LOS ANGELES -- AFI's unrelenting 15-year climb to the top of the charts reaches its summit as the Ukiah, Calif. band's seventh album, "DECEMBERUNDERGROUND," enters the Billboard 200 album chart at #1 with first week sales of 182,000 according to Nielsen Soundscan. Reached with news of the #1 debut, AFI AFI American Film Institute AFI Awaiting Further Instructions AFI Armed Forces Insurance AFI A Fire Inside (band) AFI Air Force Instruction AFI Australian Film Institute AFI Agencia Federal de Investigación vocalist Davey Havok commented, "It's an amazing feeling to have something that you believe in so strongly, that is so much a part of you touch so many people. But it was truly our fans that did this. They have brought us this recognition and we are deeply honored. I am truly elated not just for us but for them as well. This is ONE for the team." "DECEMBERUNDERGROUND" was released 06/06/06 on Tiny Evil/Interscope, and was preceded by the single "Miss Murder," praised by the press as "a galvanizing galvanizing, process of coating a metal, usually iron or steel, with a protective covering of zinc. Galvanized iron is prepared either by dipping iron, from which rust has been removed by the action of sulfuric acid, into molten zinc so that a thin layer of the zinc , smeared-mascara anthem" (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY), a "stomping instant radio anthem" (SPIN), and as one of ROLLING STONE's Key Tracks: The Best Of This Issue's Record Reviews Section and BLENDER's 20 Songs You Should Download This Month. Additionally, AFI recently generated a record-breaking 500,000 single-day plays from the band's heavily trafficked MySpace Music profile. Following a performance of "Miss Murder" on last week's 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. Movie Awards and a headlining set at San Francisco's annual BFD BFD Big Freakin' Deal (polite form) BFD Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (IP networking) BFD Binary File Descriptor (computer programming) festival, AFI embarks this week on a North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. summer tour that includes already sold-out headline dates in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and a stretch of dates as a headliner on this year's Van Warped Tour. For photos of AFI, go to http://www.nastylittleman.com/Clients/afi/afi.html, and for further information contact Steve Martin or Amanda Pitts at tel 212-343-0740, fax 212-343-0630 or e-mail Amanda@nastylittleman.com. |
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