FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RASCAL FLATTS TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
Nashville, TN� (March 23, 2007)�After wrapping 2006 as the best selling artist across all genres of music and playing to more than 1 million fans in 74 cities, Rascal Flatts show no signs of slowing down. 2007 has found Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney just as busy, embarking on the second half of their hugely successful �Me And My Gang� tour and hitting the studio with award-winning producer Dann Huff to record music for their fifth studio album. The to-be-titled CD is confirmed to release on September 25, 2007.
When Me And My Gang, the band�s most recent album, was released in April 2006 it debuted with more than 721,000 units sold, making it the biggest unit debut of 2006. No other CD release has since come close.
Me And My Gang held the #1 position on SoundScan�s weekly Top 200 sales chart for three weeks, more consecutive weeks than any artist in any genre last year.
In the six years since the release of their debut album, the band has scanned over 14 million units through traditional brick and mortar and online retail outlets. The band�s two most recent albums,
Me And My Gang and
Feels Like Today are both certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA for sales of more than 4 million units. Rascal Flatts and Melt are both certified double platinum.
Me And My Gang is the band�s fastest selling title to date.
Lyric Street Records is a part of the Buena Vista Music Group. The Buena Vista Music Group is the recorded music and music publishing arm of the Walt Disney Studios.
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For additional information, contact:
Cindy Heath
Lyric Street Records, 615-963-4865
Jessie Schmidt
Schmidt Relations, 615-846-3878
