New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Grammy-nominated band Panic! At The
Disco have earned their second consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart with their critically acclaimed sixth album, Pray For The Wicked. Debuting at No. 1 on iTunes in 22 countries, the album launched with 180,000 equivalent album units earned, 151,000 of which were traditional album sales. Both figures represent the biggest week for an alternative rock album in 2018, according to Billboard. According to Nielsen Music, the album saw the fifth-largest week for a vinyl effort since the company began tracking sales in 1991. Lead single "Say Amen (Saturday Night) is also currently No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Songs Chart and current single "
High Hopes" is exploding at streaming services.
Produced by Jake Sinclair, Pray For The Wicked was announced in March after a week of cryptic clues that set the internet a buzz. Last Friday, P!ATD continued its hold on American TV airwaves with explosive performances of "
Say Amen (Saturday Night)", "
High Hopes", and fan favorite "
I Write Sins Not Tragedies" on Today Show's Citi Summer Concert Series in New York's Famed
Rockefeller Plaza. Leading up to the albums release the band made appearances on The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The
Ellen Degeneres Show, NBC's The Voice.
Frontman Brendon Urie recently launched Highest Hopes Foundation (HHF) - an umbrella foundation created to support the efforts of non-profit organizations that lead, develop, and advocate support for human rights for all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity. The first of many donations to come, Urie pledged a one million dollar donation to GLSEN to provide resources, training, and support to students working to created student-led GSA clubs in their K-12 schools last week. Panic! At The
Disco will be allocating $1 of every ticket from the U.S. dates of the band's headline arena Pray For The Wicked Tour to HHF and in the coming days and months, Urie and the foundation will announce upcoming donations and activations with a variety of charitable organizations.
Next week, Panic! At The
Disco will embark on the first leg of their Pray For The Wicked Tour in support of the album, which has sold out multiple venues including Madison
Square Garden in New York City and STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. Produced by AEG presents, the tour's first leg will kick off on July 11, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN, and will visit arenas throughout the summer before concluding in the band's hometown of Las
Vegas on August 18, 2018. A R I Z O N A and Hayley Kiyokoprovide support.
This fall, Panic! At The
Disco will embark on an international run of dates visiting Australia, Japan, New Zealand, The Philippines, and Mexico in October. In January, the band will return to the road in North
America for the second leg of the Pray For The Wicked Tour. The 28-city leg, which kicks off on January 10, 2019 in Buffalo, NY, and wraps on February 20, 2019 in Sacramento, CA, will feature support from Two Feet.
Pray For The Wicked follows Panic! At The Disco's critically acclaimed fifth album, Death Of A Bachelor, which was released on January 15, 2016 via Fueled By Ramen/DCD2 Records. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart and was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2017 GRAMMY Awards. The RIAA platinum selling release was the highest selling rock album and fourth-highest selling album released in 2016, according to Nielsen Soundscan. The album has also spawned RIAA certified gold tracks "Hallelujah," "LA Devotee," "Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time" and platinum "Victorious," "Death Of A Bachelor," and "Emperor's New Clothes." Most recently, frontman Brendon Urie starred as Charlie Price in the critically acclaimed, TONY Award-winning Broadway hit Kinky Boots.
PANIC! AT THE DISCO TOUR DATES
Pray For The Wicked Tour Leg One -With support from A R I Z O N A and Hayley Kiyoko
7/11/2018 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
7/13/2018 Indianapolis, IN Bankers Life Fieldhouse
7/14/2018 Detroit, MI Little
Caesars Arena - SOLD OUT
7/15/2018 Columbus, OH Nationwide
Arena - SOLD OUT
7/17/2018 Chicago, IL United Center - SOLD OUT
7/18/2018 Pittsburgh, PA PPG Paints Arena
7/20/2018 Uniondale, NY NYCB Live: Nassau Coliseum
7/21/2018 Baltimore, MD Royal Farms
Arena - SOLD OUT
7/22/2018 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
7/24/2018 New York, NY Madison
Square Garden - SOLD OUT
7/25/2018 Boston, MA TD Garden - SOLD OUT
7/27/2018 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center - SOLD OUT
7/28/2018 Raleigh, NC PNC Arena
7/29/2018 Duluth, GA Infinite
Energy Center - SOLD OUT
7/31/2018 Sunrise, FL BB&T Center
8/1/2018 Tampa, FL Amalie
Arena - SOLD OUT
8/3/2018 Houston, TX Toyota Center
8/4/2018 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
8/5/2018 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
8/7/2018 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
8/8/2018 Salt Lake City, UT Vivint Smart Home Arena
8/10/2018 Seattle, WA KeyArena
8/11/2018 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
8/12/2018 Portland, OR Moda Center
8/14/2018 San Jose, CA SAP Center
8/15/2018 Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center - SOLD OUT
8/17/2018 Glendale, AZ Gila River Arena
8/18/2018 Las Vegas, NV T-Mobile Arena
International Dates
10/06/2018 Sydney, Australia Qudos Bank Arena
10/09/2018 Adelaide, Australia AEC Theatre
10/11/2018 Brisbane, Australia Riverstage
10/13/2018 Melbourne, Australia Hisense Arena
10/16/2018 Auckland, New Zealand Spark Arena
10/20/2018 Manila, Philippines Mall of Asia Arena
10/22/2018 Tokyo, Japan ZEPP Tokyo
10/23/2018 Tokyo, Japan Shinkiba Studio Coast
10/25/2018 Osaka, Japan ZEPP Osaka Bayside
10/17-18/2018 Mexico City, Mexico Corona Capital
Pray For The Wicked Tour North American Leg Two -With support from Two Feet
1/10/2019 Buffalo, NY KeyBank Center
1/12/2019 Laval, QC Place Bell
1/13/2019 Manchester, NH SNHU Arena
1/15/2019 Albany, NY Times Union Center
1/16/2019 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
1/18/2019 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
1/19/2019 Providence, RI Dunkin' Donuts Center
1/20/2019 Washington, DC Capital One Arena
1/22/2019 Charlotte, NC Spectrum Center
1/23/2019 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena
1/25/2019 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
1/26/2019 Cincinnati, OH U.S. Bank Arena
1/27/2019 Milwaukee, WI Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center
1/29/2019 Grand Rapids, MI The Van Andel Arena
1/30/2019 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
02/01/2019 Omaha, NE CenturyLink Center
02/02/2019 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
02/04/2019 Rosemont, IL Allstate Arena
02/05/2019 Saint Louis, MO Enterprise Center
02/06/2019 Memphis, TN FedExForum
02/08/2019 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
02/09/2019 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center
2/12/2019 Albuquerque, NM Tingley Coliseum
2/14/2019 Anaheim, CA.
