Blondie will release their new album, Panic of Girls, on September 13 with Amazon as the exclusive digital and physical retailer. The album is the ninth studio album from the New York City band, and its first since The Curse of Blondie was released in 2004.
Singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein founded Blondie in 1974. It became one of the most commercially successful bands to emerge from the New York punk and new wave scenes. The band has sold over 40 million records worldwide and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.
Blondie isn’t the first major act to partner exclusively with a large retailer for a wide-scale release. Jay-Z and Kanye West recently gave Best Buy the exclusive rights to sell the CD version of Watch the Throne for the first two weeks it was available. The album won’t be in stores and will be absent from iTunes. Blondie’s Amazon partnership ensures that people will have to order Panic of Girls online.
Check out the video above for the album’s first single, “Mother.”
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Singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein founded Blondie in 1974. It became one of the most commercially successful bands to emerge from the New York punk and new wave scenes. The band has sold over 40 million records worldwide and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.
Blondie isn’t the first major act to partner exclusively with a large retailer for a wide-scale release. Jay-Z and Kanye West recently gave Best Buy the exclusive rights to sell the CD version of Watch the Throne for the first two weeks it was available. The album won’t be in stores and will be absent from iTunes. Blondie’s Amazon partnership ensures that people will have to order Panic of Girls online.
Check out the video above for the album’s first single, “Mother.”
What do you think of bands partnering with Amazon? Let us know in the comments.
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Posted on Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:56:27 +0000 at http://mashable.com/2011/08/31/blondie-amazon-album/
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