Kerosene & electric sparks. | switchFEED.com: 'Nothing Is Sound' re-enters Billboard at #91, more than a year after release

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

'Nothing Is Sound' re-enters Billboard at #91, more than a year after release

This is really great news, to me. Its been more than 14 months since Nothing is Sound was released, and...

MTV News:

Switchfoot's Nothing Is Sound jumped 320 percent, returning to the chart at #91 with close to 18,000 copies sold)

This means that the singles "Dirty Second Hands" and "Oh! Gravity." (including its groundbreaking video) are really catching on, and bringing in new fans. I'm not all that surprised because these songs are amazingly unlike anything Switchfoot's done before, and I knew it'd bring in many new fans, but I didn't expect it to bring NIS back on the charts... I didn't expect 18,000 people to go into the stores after hearing these songs, to purchase Nothing is Sound. That's just great. The best part is, the single isn't really getting any noteworthy radio play yet, so this buzz is being generated mainly by word of mouth. Keep up the good work, footsoldiers. Keep up the great work, Oh! Gravity. music video (which, though not on TV yet, crashed in at Yahoo! Music Videos' Top 100 chart at #58, and Rock chart at #9, in its first week). And not to forget the current tour, which has earned rave reviews.

These are exciting times, friends. That's all.

[PS: Thanks to ~^Aki^~ from the SF boards for posting about the MTV News article.]

Labels: news

posted by phil @ 3:23 PM

3 Comments:

At November 29, 2006 3:36:00 PM PST, Vicky said…

Switchfoot is just rad like that I guess. I am still surprised. But excited of course!
At November 30, 2006 4:43:00 PM PST, Natalie J. said…

this is exciting news. on the trip I went on last week, I had the opportunity to share some of swfts new songs with some friends. they seemed to like it and they mentioned that they're sound was different. i also told them about the up coming album.. and how much more amazing those tracks are.

I should just pass my ipod around the school. my friend chris really liked swfts new sound. so so far all I've really heard from people are good things.
At November 30, 2006 9:48:00 PM PST, x3beccamariex3 said…

that's exciting! i'm happy that NIS will get some of the credit it deserves, personally it is my favorite album of theirs. the copy-protection stuff really took away how people looked at the album. i hope it keeps going up the guys deserve it for all the work they put in for that amazing album :]