Rascal Flatts sets digital debut single record

Posted by brandy

on March 23, 2009M at 3:03 pm

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Country trio Rascal Flatts, which includes Joe Don Rooney of Picher, will release this week the third of four advance tracks from the upcoming album “Unstoppable.”

“Love Who You Love” will be released on iTunes Tuesday.

The band will pre-release a total of four songs from “Unstoppable” via iTunes each consecutive Tuesday leading up to the April 7 street date. On April 7, iTunes customers may “Complete My Album” and purchase the album at a reduced price based on the tracks they’ve already purchased. Each song will also be made available to radio for airplay as it is released at iTunes.

Fans can go to iTunes now to purchase the single and video for “Here Comes Goodbye” and “Forever.” The fourth and final pre-release track, “”Things That Matter,” will debut March 31 on iTunes.

With the release of ”Here Comes Goodbye,” Rascal Flatts broke the record for the largest first-week digital scans for a country debut single, according to a news release. Citing Nielsen Soundscan, the release states that the band sold 126,000 copies of the heartbreaking balland in its first week of release. With that number, the band topped all previous digital sales thresholds by any other country artist for the first-week scans for a debut single.

”Unstoppable,” co-produced by Dann Huff and Rascal Flatts, is the band’s first studio album since 2007’s multi-platinum “Still Feels Good.”

Since 2000, Rascal Flatts has sold more than 18 million albums, scored 10 No. 1 singles and 18 top 10 hits. Each of the band’s five studio albums are multi-platinum sellers. Judging from the reaction to “Here Comes Goodbye,” which is an absolute tear-jerker, the band seems poised to live up to the album name with “Unstoppable.”

- BAM

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