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Journey News Including Arnel Pineda

These are bits and pieces collected from several sources. More will be added as they're received via Google Alerts.

June 13, 2008, abs-cbnNEWS.com (Philippines), excerpts from "Friday the 13th is good luck: Journey's album lands on Billboard Top 5"

Popular American rock band Journey Popular American rock band Journey zooms up to the top 5 spot on the Billboard 200 with their newest album "Revelation"–and this news was relayed to abs-cbnNEWS.com by alert reader timber25homme@yahoo.com on Friday the 13th.

Filipinos around the world will surely be proud, since Journey's current lead vocalist is pure-blooded Filipino Arnel Pineda. It's Pineda's voice that soars and rocks on that hit album.

The best thing about news like this is that it will either shut up or rile even more all those insane Pineda critics and naysayers on YouTube.

June 12, 2008, Inquirer.net (Philippines), excerpt from "Journey cruises to Germany"

American band Journey's 2008 tour with new Filipino lead singer Arnel Pineda is in Germany with shows that began Tuesday at Ewerk in Cologne, and resumes tonight at the Hessen State Fair in HombergEfze and tomorrow at the Jako Arena in Bamberg.

June 12, 2008, expressandstar.com (UK), excerpt from "Journey back with a new voice"

U.S. melodic rock legends Journey are set to appear at Wolverhampton Civic Hall with their third singer in three years.

New lead singer Arnel Pineda, replaces Jeff Scott Soto, who parted ways with the band earlier this year after stepping in for Steve Augeri, who had to leave the band in 2006 for medical reasons relating to his voice.

June 11, 2008, prnewswire.com (UK), excerpt from "JOURNEY's 'REVELATION' Sells More Than 104,000 Units in Debut Week"

JOURNEY's new three-disc CD/DVD package REVELATION has sold more than 104,000 copies in its debut week according to Wal-Mart Stores, marking the band's biggest first week's sales since 1996's TRIAL BY FIRE. Released June 3, REVELATION is being sold exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club in North America, Walmart.com and Samsclub.com, and Journey's official website, Journeymusic.com. REVELATION's first week's sales marks a 1400% increase over the band's 2005 first week's sales of GENERATIONS.

June 11, 2008, billboard.com (USA), excerpt from "Disturbed Scores Third Straight No. 1 Album"

Journey's Wal-Mart exclusive set "Revelation" opens at No. 5 with 105,000 copies. It's the band's highest charting album and best sales week since "Trial By Fire" debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 145,000 in 1996. That was the band's last album with lead singer Steve Perry; new frontman Arnel Pineda was discoved by Journey via YouTube.

June 10, 2008, film.com (USA), excerpt from "The Sopranos One Year Later: It Goes On and On…"

Besides the Sopranos bump, Neil Schon and company took other measures to get to this success. First, they needed a new singer — one who more closely sounded like Perry to take advantage of the opportunity at hand. Schon found his prize via YouTube — the lead singer of a Phillipino cover band called Zoo. Arnel Pineda, whose incredible back story requires its own "Don't Stop Believing" song, leapt at the challenge, and the band went about recording an album in the style of Escape. They still didn't have a label, but they decided to follow The Eagles' lead and release the album exclusively through Wal-Mart, using no record label at all. And now they're in the Top Ten again. Wonder how record labels are interpreting that ending? Well … it's not actually an ending — if there's anything we learned from The Sopranos, it's that it goes on and on and on and on.)


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