December 14, 2006
Evanescence Still Tops Charts Despite New LineupThe Arkansas-bred goth-rock band Evanescence managed to make a strong entrance for its sophomore album, The Open Door, topping album charts despite a revamped lineup.
The band?s major-label debut album, Fallen, sold nearly 14 million copies worldwide and became one of only eight albums ever to spend a full year in the Top 50 of the Billboard 200.
However, the group?s second album, featuring Terry Balsamo taking over for band cofounder Ben Moody, The Open Door is the band?s first chart topper selling 447,000 copies for a week, according to Nielsen SoundScan numbers, outselling the Killers' sophomore release, Sam's Town.
Evanescence open door lyrics lead single, call me when your sober mp3 is performing strongly on radio. Evanescence open door lyrics also went number one in Australia, Germany, Greece, Japan and Switzerland and Top 5 in over a dozen other countries. The disc opened at number two in the U.K., behind the Killers.
Call me when your sober lyrics was inspired by Amy Lee?s failed love affair with Seether frontman Shaun Morgan.
Call me when your sober Evanescence, which hit modern rock and alternative rock radio on August 7, 2006, has reached the Top 5 on the Canadian BDS Airplay charts and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, where call me when your sober first debuted at number 25 marking the band's highest Hot 100 debut to date.
On August 28th, call me when your sober reached number one on MTV's TRL, marking the first time an Evanescence single has reached the TRL top spot.
Behind the chart-topping call me when your sober Evanescence mp3 and other tracks is a seemingly strong girl struggling with the typical growing pains and tackling the messy task of emerging from her awkward teen years and navigating the complex waters of romance while figuring out what to be when she grows up.
Lee was just 19 when she signed her first record contract, and barely 21 when the band's major-label debut, "Fallen," flew up the charts in 2003. The album, co-written by Lee and (now ex-boyfriend) Ben Moody, connected with fans across the globe and netted the band two Grammy awards, including best new artist.
"Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all," says Lee, now 24.
Her celebrity status as a singer of edgy songs left her surrounded by teenage fans in search of a role model.
Despite the image of hard-rocking power that Lee projected during her first years in the spotlight, she was struggling with unhealthy issues ranging from failed relationships ironically coupled with and overwhelming career success.
Then things went from complicated to just plain ugly: within months, Moody abruptly quit the band while on tour allegedly because he didn?t like the turnout of events like he expected it to be.
Lee also had to deal with troubles against her former manager on issue of sexual battery to financial mismanagement.
The rather difficult issues prompted Lee to take a break from stardom. "I just cut myself off from the world a little bit. Unplugged all the phones."
Lee eventually began working with a new writing partner, guitarist Terry Balsamo (formerly of Cold and Limp Bizkit), who had joined Evanescence.
But then the jinx seems to go on when Balsamo suffered a stroke in 2005. He's now nearly recovered, but the experience was life-changing for them both.
It strengthened Lee, she says, making her music even more intimate and confessional: "It really made the album more meaningful. You totally get a new perspective."
Balsamo says writing with Lee was a more rewarding experience than his collaborations with his other bands because "she was willing to try new things and not do the same old (stuff), and that's something I'm really a big fan of."
"The Open Door" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album charts, selling almost 450,000 copies in its first week buoyed the smash hit Evanescence call me mp3. "The Open Door" offers vulnerability from Lee, and even a healthy dose of hope, doused with Evanescence sober mp3 success.
Although the band's lineup has changed considerably since "Fallen," the music remains consistent. |