Chinese Democracy
Guns N' Roses
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Release Date: 24/11/2008
Chinese Democracy has finally arrived. One of the most highly anticipated albums in rock history, the long-awaited Chinese Democracy marks the first album of new material from Guns N’ Roses since 1991’s simultaneous release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. Chinese Democracy (Black Frog/Geffen Records) will be available in the UK on November 24 on CD, vinyl and digital album. Produced by Axl Rose and Caram Costanzo, Chinese Democracy includes 14 tracks. The title track and first single from the album, “Chinese Democracy”, will be released on Sunday 9th November as a digital download. Two of the recordings have been recently released in the US — “Shackler’s Revenge” debuted September 14 in the “Rock Band 2” video game (released in UK 7th November) and “If The World” debuted October 11 in the film Body Of Lies (released in the UK 21st November) US and worldwide sales information:Seventeen years ago, the two previous original albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, were issued simultaneously, a first for any contemporary artist. Debuting #2 and #1, respectively, they featured three gold hits with “November Rain”, “Don’t Cry” and the previously released “You Could Be Mine” from the film Terminator II: Judgement Day, plus “Live And Let Die.” Each album went seven times platinum. The band’s 1987 full-length debut Appetite For Destruction has sold more than 28 million copies worldwide (18 times platinum in the U.S.) and is among the biggest-selling albums in history. The #1 album notched three Top 10 hits--the gold anthem “Welcome To The Jungle”, “Sweet Child o’ Mine” plus “Paradise City.” 1988’s five times platinum G N’ R Lies yielded the gold selling “Patience.” After the Use Your Illusion duo, 1994’s “The Spaghetti Incident?” cover album went four times platinum. Overall, Guns N’ Roses has sold more than 90 million records worldwide.
1: Chinese Democracy
2: Shackler's Revenge
3: Better
4: Street of Dreams
5: If The World
6: There Was a Time
7: Catcher in the Rye
8: Scraped
9: Riad N' the Bedouins
10: Sorry
11: I.R.S
12: Madagascar
13: This I Love
14: Prostitute