New Goo Goo Dolls Album Debuts at #8 on the Billboard Chart

Goo Goo Dolls new album Magnetic has debuted at #8 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, with almost 29k sold first week. The 10th studio album for the multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated band features debut single “Rebel Beat,” which is currently climbing the charts at Hot AC radio. Goo Goo Dolls celebrated the June 11th release of Magnetic with a performance of “Rebel Beat” on Good Morning America, followed by an appearance on Kelly & Michael June 12th. “Rebel Beat” can also be heard for the next month in the promos for HGTV’s new show Brother vs. Brother and in the latest installment of HGTV’s #lovehome branding campaign. They will be performing the song on Rachael Ray July 3rd.

To support Magnetic, Goo Goo Dolls are hitting the road with Matchbox 20 next week. The nationwide co-headlining run will kick off June 25th at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH and run through August. Enter to win a trip to see Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox 20 here: http://connect.googoodolls.com. UK fans will also get a chance to see the band: they begin a headline run there on October 15th. Full tour dates are below.

Goo Goo Dolls have sold over 10 million albums worldwide, with 14 Top 10 Radio hits, more than any other artist in the history of the Hot AC format. They are the only artist to have three songs on Billboard’s “Top 100 Songs from 1992-2012” including the Number One slot, for “Iris.” John Rzeznik has been honored with the Songwriters Hall of Fame Hal David Starlight Award and they were recently inducted into Guitar Center’s Historic Hollywood Rock Walk.

Goo Goo Dolls Tour Dates:

With Matchbox 20:

June

25 Manchester, NH – Verizon

26 Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Art Center

27 Toronto, ON – MCA

29 Pittsburg, PA – First Niagara Pavilion

30 Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend

July

2 Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Festival

3 Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Festival

4 Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Festival

6 Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theater

7 Indianapolis, IN – Klipsch Music Center

9 Maryland Heights, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

10 Moline, IL – iWireless Center

12 Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center

13 Minneapolis, MN – Basilica Block Party

15 Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green

17 Universal City, CA – Gibson

19 Las Vegas, NV – Mandalay Bay

20 Irvine, CA – Verizon

21 Paso Robles, CA – California Mid-StateFair

23 Concord, CA – Sleep Train Pavilion

24 San Diego, CA – Valley View Casino Center

30 Houston, TX – Woodlands

31 Dallas, TX – Gexa

August

2 Pelham, AL – Oak Mountain

3 Atlanta, GA – Lakewood

4 Tampa, FL – 1-800 Ask Gary

6 Charlotte, NC – Verizon

7 Raleigh, NC – TWC

8 Virginia Beach, VA – Farm Bureau

10 Bristow VA – Jiffy Lube Live

11 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center

13 Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

14 Hershey, PA – Star Pavilion

16 Holmdel, NJ – PNC

17 Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach

18 Mansfield, MA – Great Woods

20 Salisbury, MD – Wicomico Civic Center

21 Charleston, WV – Municipal Civic Center

22 Cuyahoga Falls, OK – Blossom

24 Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake PAC (headline show)

25 London, ON – JLC

26 Orillia, ON -Casino Rama

28 Moncton, NB – Credit Union Place

29 Halifax, NS – Metro Centre

UK Headline dates:

OCTOBER

15 Nottingham Rock City

16 Manchester Academy

17 Glasgow Academy

19 Newcastle Academy

20 Leeds Academy

21 Norwich UEA

23 Birmingham Institute

25 Hammersmith Apollo