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Re: The Big Box / CD release rumor thread

sic. wrote:

Thought I'd put all the recent rumors in the same place for quick reference. So many individual threads out there that it's sometimes hard to see the forest from the trees.

Chinese Democracy status

Release date: 11/23/08 (Best Buy exclusive)

1st promotional track: Shackler's Revenge (on video game Rock Band 2, rel. 09/18/08)
2nd promotional track: If the World (on feature film Body of Lies, rel. 10/10/08)
3rd promotional track: Chinese Democracy (on US radio stations, rel. 10/22/08)

Track listing

1. Chinese Democracy (Freese/Rose)
2. Shacklers Revenge (Carroll/Costanzo/Finck/Mantia/Rose/Scaturro)
3. Better (Finck/Rose)
4. Street Of Dreams (The Blues) (Reed/Rose/Stinson)
5. If The World (Pitman/Rose)
6. There Was A Time (TWAT) (Reed/Rose/Tobias)
7. Catcher N' The Rye (Rose/Tobias)
8. Scraped (Lies They Tell) (Carroll/Costanzo/Rose)
9. Riad N' The Bedouins (Rose/Stinson)
10. Sorry (Carroll/Mantia/Rose/Scaturro)
11. I.R.S. (Reed/Rose/Tobias)
12. Madagascar (Pitman/Rose)
13. This I Love (Rose)
14. Prostitute (Rose/Tobias)

The Universal Music Group Forecast for Major Releases - September 2008

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Geffen Records' Fourth Quarter (Oct-Dec) slot includes a new release from Guns N' Roses.

Downloadable Excel document:

http://www.zshare.net/download/189203990f623a12/
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D4JIIOA4

Various reports

Best Buy and Geffen Records announced that one of the most highly anticipated albums of all time, Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy, will be available beginning Nov. 23 at Best Buy and BestBuy.com on CD, vinyl, and digital downloads. The title track, the first single from the album, was released to radio today, October 22. Chinese Democracy is the first album of new material from one of rock's most influential bands since the 1991 simultaneous releases of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.

[...] Produced by Axl Rose and Caram Costanzo, the album, which will be released on Black Frog/Geffen Records, includes 14 tracks. 'Shackler's Revenge'  debuted September 14 through the Rock Band 2 videogame and 'If The World'  can be heard in the film Body Of Lies, which premiered on October 11.

Chinese Democracy is being released in three formats: CD, Vinyl LP (with a free digital download of the tracks), and as a digital album. - Rolling Stone, 10/22/08

The title track from Guns N' Roses' new album, "Chinese Democracy," will be available to download by U.S. radio outlets at 5 a.m. ET tomorrow morning (Oct. 22). Although some album tracks leaked this summer, this is the first authorized new music from the group in nine years. - Billboard, 10/21/08

Chinese Democracy, the album Axl Rose has labored over for more than a decade, will finally hit stores on Sunday, November 23rd (a departure from the normal Tuesday record release day). The album will be sold exclusively in Best Buy stores and online at Bestbuy.com and iTunes. A music video is in the works, and the band '” in which Rose is the only remaining original member '” is expected to tour in 2009, according to a source close to G N' R. - Rolling Stone, 10/17/08

Guns N' Roses' long-awaited Chinese Democracy album on Geffen/ Interscope finally has a release date. The album will hit all Best Buy stores, where it is an exclusive, on the Sunday prior to Thanksgiving, Nov. 23, giving it a full seven days on sale before entering the chart on Dec. 2. Best Buy's sales week runs from Sunday through Saturday night. - Hits Daily Double, 10/08/08

Best Buy is set to be the exclusive retailer for Guns N' Roses decade-plus-in-the-making new album "Chinese Democracy" before year's end, sources close to the situation tell Billboard. Some details of the deal are still being worked out, including the release date. - Billboard, 09/26/08

Today at the Best Buy media holiday kickoff event in Dallas, TX, it was apparently announced that the Best Buy exclusive release was official! The deal was done within the last 48 hrs.

GNR management was on hand, (Azoff or Gould, apparently an English man) they played the group three songs, Chinese Democracy and two others. [The songs were later confirmed as CD, If the World and There Was A Time, with Andy Gould representing GNR management at the event. An audio recording has also surfaced.]

But management stated one song would play for the credit roll in the new Di Caprio flick Body of Lies [The film will open wide stateside on 10/10/08. Del James has confirmed that a GNR track is included.]. The album will be released on Nov 25, only at Best Buy. - MyGNR, 09/25/08

[Shackler's Revenge on Rock Band 2] is the beginning of what is expected to be a series of announcements about Guns '˜N Roses, the main point being that the album will be finally released and before Christmas.

[...] By getting the album out in November, Guns '˜N Roses will have a chance to claw back some of the control of the distribution [in response to the recent leaks] and finally put this long overdue release in the hands of the fans. - Undercover Press, 09/13/08

I hear that the deal with Best Buy is 99% done. The plan is for Best Buy to have an exclusive on Chinese Democracy, which will be released the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. - CD Blog, 09/01/08

A little birdie told me the deal with Best Buy is done.  All that's left to do is sign the contract. - Bob Lefsetz, 08/31/08

Even Guns n' Roses' Chinese Democracy has a chance: A source tells Rolling Stone that a November release date has been selected in case the band decides to put it out. - RS, 08/28/08

the current intended release date for CHINESE DEMOCRACY is november 25, 2008. it is azoff's strong preference that the release be done through best buy and not wal-mart. [...] i was also told that the story was leaked by azoff to put pressure on best buy to up their offer and close the deal. - MSL, 08/19/08

According to sources, negotiations are underway for "Chinese Democracy" to come out as an exclusive at one of the big boxes -- either Wal-Mart or Best Buy. Negotiations are also ongoing to have conventional record company distribution, another source says. - Billboard, 08/15/08

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