NEW YORK (Arista announcement) - As her current album
'Afterglow' passes the double platinum plateau, and its first single "
Fallen" stays in the top 5 at Adult Radio, Arista recording artist
Sarah McLachlan is announcing her first major series of North American tour dates in five years. The summer tour will kick off over Independence Day weekend, on Monday, July 5th, at the Key
Arena in Seattle, and will wrap up at GM Place in Sarah's hometown of Vancouver on Friday,
September 10th. (Please see complete itinerary attached.)
In 12 weeks on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, 'Afterglow' - Sarah's first studio album in six years - has spent all but one week inside the top 15. The album entered the chart at No2 with the biggest one-week sales of her career, bearing out the New York Times' assertion that she "still has a place in a music world in which showboating R&B divas and studio-created pop princesses reign." The album is holding strong inside the top 10 on Soundscan's Alternative Core Stores and Internet charts; and inside the top 5 on the Current Alternative, Current Electronic Albums, and Electronic Albums Core charts.
"Fallen" has spend 17 weeks on the Adult Contemporary Singles chart.
"Stupid," the second single from 'Afterglow', is set to ship to radio on Monday, February 2nd. The video is on schedule to be shot next week in Los Angeles with director Sophie Muller, known for her videos with Annie Lennox, Blur, No Doubt, Coldplay, and many others, including several live version clips with Sarah: "I Will Remember You," "Ice Cream," and "Possession."
Sarah McLachlan's return was heralded with an intensive round of television exposure during November-December, including appearances on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, the syndicated Martha Stewart Living, ABC's The Wayne Brady Show and The View, Lifetime's Intimate Portrait, and A&E's Breakfast With the Arts. Since then, Sarah has been featured prominently on major lifestyle websites across the Internet, ranging from Rollingstone.com, Click2Music, Women.com, TheNightOwl.com, and PureSongwriters.com, to huge campaigns on Gay.com and PlanetOut.com (which will gain over 2.2 million impressions), AmericanBaby.com, and HealthyKids.com, focusing on Sarah's new role as mom to baby India.
Sarah McLachlan 2004 North American tour dates:
July 5 Seattle, WA Key Arena
July 6 Portland, OR Rose Quarter
July 7 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena
July 9-10 San Jose, CA Compaq Arena
July 12 San Diego, CA San Diego Arena
July 13 Los Angeles, CA The Staples Center
July 14 Anaheim, CA The Pond
July 16 Phoenix, AZ America West Arena
July 17 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
July 19 Salt Lake City, UT The "E" Center
July 20 Denver, CO The Pepsi Center
July 22 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
July 23 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
July 24 Houston, TX Toyota Center
July 26 New Orleans, LA Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena
July 27 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
July 28 Nashville, TN Gaylord Arena
July 30 Raleigh, NC RBC Center
July 31 Philadelphia, PA First Union Spectrum
Aug. 1 Hartford, CT Hartford Civic
Aug. 9 East Rutherford, NJ Continental Arena
Aug. 10 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
Aug. 11 Washington, DC MCI Center
Aug. 13 Providence, RI Dunkin Donuts Center
Aug. 14 Worcester, MA Centrum
Aug. 16 Montreal, Que. The Bell Centre
Aug. 17 Ottawa, Ont. The Correl Centre
Aug. 19-20 Toronto, Ont. ACC Arena
Aug. 22 Buffalo, NY HSBC Arena
Aug. 23-24 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
Aug. 26 Cleveland, OH Gund Arena
Aug. 27 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse
Aug. 28 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
Aug. 30 Cincinnati, OH US Bank Arena
Aug. 31 Chicago, IL The United Center
Sept. 1 St Louis, MO Savvis Center
Sept. 3 Milwaukee, WI Bradley
Sept. 4 Minneapolis, MN Excel Energy Center
Sept. 5 Winnipeg, Man. Winnipeg Arena
Sept. 7 Edmonton, Alb. Skyreach Place
Sept. 8 Calgary, Alb. Pengrowth Saddledome
Sept. 10 Vancouver, B.C. GM Place
