April 10, 2009
GUNS N’ ROSES ALBUM CHINESE
DEMOCRACY SHREDS ITS WAY ON TO ROCK BAND
Harmonix and MTV Games announced
today that Chinese Democracy, the sixth and most recent album from Guns N’
Roses, will be released in its entirety to the Rock Band® Music Store catalog of
downloadable content on April 14, 2009.
The highly anticipated November 2008
release of Chinese Democracy was Guns N’ Roses’ first official music release in
15 years. It debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart, at #2 on the UK Albums
chart and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of
America on February 3, 2009. Chinese Democracy has already sold nearly three
million copies. Formed in the early 80s in Los Angeles, Guns N’ Roses has sold
an estimated 100 million albums worldwide. The band’s 1987 major label debut
Appetite for Destruction, featuring the hits “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Paradise
City” and “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” has sold in excess of 28 million copies and
remains to this day the fastest-selling debut album in history.
Next week’s Rock Band Music Store
lineup will feature 13 songs from Chinese Democracy. With “Shackler’s Revenge”
from Chinese Democracy already featured on the Rock Band 2 soundtrack, the DLC
album includes the following tracks:
Tracks:
Chinese Democracy
Better
Street of Dreams
If the World There
Was a Time
Catcher in the Rye
Scraped
Riad N’ the Bedouins
Sorry
I.R.S.
Madagascar
This I Love Prostitute
(All tracks are original master
recordings)
The tracks will be available for
purchase as an album or individual tracks for Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 system.
The tracks will be available for purchase as individual tracks only for Wii.
Release Date:
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 (Xbox LIVE
Marketplace for Xbox 360 and in-game Rock Band 2 Music Store for Wii Thursday,
April 16, 2009 (PlayStation®Store)
** Dates for Rock Band game tracks
are tentative and subject to change **
Price:
$1.99 or 160 Microsoft Points for
Xbox 360 per track $2.00 or 200 Wii Points for Wii per track $19.99 (1600
Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for album
Locations: Xbox LIVE Marketplace for
the Xbox 360 PlayStation®Network In-game Rock Band 2 Music Store for Wii Website
Links: For more information, please visit:
Guns N’ Roses
Official Website
Rock Band 2 is available for the
Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 and
PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems and Wii™ home videogame console
from Nintendo.
Downloadable content for Wii is
purchased via the in-game Rock Band Music Store using Wii Points purchased
through the Wii Shop Channel and can be downloaded to the hard drive of the Wii
or to an SD card for additional storage. The tracks stream directly from the SD
card for seamless play.
There are now more than 630 tracks
available to date via disc and download purchase complete list of tracks at
www.rockband.com/music Rock
Band continues to satisfy music fans’ and gamers’ voracious appetite for rock
with more than 40 million paid downloads since its launch on November 20, 2007.
The Rock Band Music Store allows players to preview and purchase downloadable
individual music tracks and packs from the vast selection of offerings available
to date without ever leaving the game as they build their own custom Rock Band
library.
Rock Band and Rock Band 2 are rated
"T" for Teen (lyrics, suggestive themes) by the ESRB.
For more information on Rock Band2
and Harmonix Music Systems please visit
www.rockband.com and
www.harmonixmusic.com.