One more chart note for you, from way down at the bottom of the Billboard Biz round-up: • The use of Journey’s single “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” in the June 10 finale of “The Sopranos” — followed by oodles of media attention for the band and the show — yields big returns on the charts this week. More »
Late yesterday, Journey announced that lead singer Jeff Scott Soto was leaving the band, after serving barely a year as the replacement for the last Journey singer, Steve Augeri. More »
Thanks to its pre-closing-credits appearance on The Sopranos, Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” is racing up the charts: The song is currently No. 30 on the iTunes’ “Top Songs” list, right between Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony and T.I.; and the band’s Greatest Hits album is No. 54 on Amazon.com (make sure you buy the remastered version, so you can hear all the crisp snare on “Only The Young”!). Meanwhile, keyboardist Jonathan Cain tells the AP the band had no idea how the song was going to be employed:
Cain, who has a 13-year-old and twins aged 11, said the songwriters are careful about how they license the song, and have resisted several advertising campaigns. They debated its use in the film “Monster” with Charlize Theron but, in the end, “she’s too cute to say no to,” he said.
Last night, Journey announced that Steve Perry replacement Steve Augeri–who had been with the group since 1998–was being replaced by Jeff Scott Soto (pictured here, at a 2003 pro-nipple rally). More »
