Double Platinum-Selling Group Sugarland to Release Sophomore Album ENJOY THE RIDE November 7

Double Platinum-Selling Group Sugarland to Release Sophomore Album ENJOY THE RIDE November 7

New Single "Want To" Most Added Two Weeks in a Row

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Double platinum-selling group Sugarland will release ENJOY THE RIDE, the follow up album to their debut TWICE THE SPEED OF LIFE, November 7. Lead members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush wrote or co-wrote all 11 tracks. ENJOY THE RIDE is produced by Byron Gallimore, Bush and Nettles.

"I am so excited about this album and can't wait to get it to the fans," said Nettles. "It has the fun, sass and positivity that everyone expects from Sugarland with a few pleasant emotional surprises. It is the next level for us and a true musical evolution."

Explaining the inspiration for the album title, Nettles continued, "We named the record ENJOY THE RIDE as an invitation, a reminder and a challenge: an invitation to our fans to sit back and enjoy the ride of this record, a reminder to ourselves and our fans to enjoy the ride of life and as a challenge to ourselves to enjoy this wonderful ride of a career that we've been blessed with."

Bush commented, "I love our new album. It picks up where our last one left off musically, spiritually and emotionally. There's a great deal of hope in the notes and words -- hope for a first kiss, a new love, a blue sky or a happy ending."

"Want To," the album's first single, is poised to repeat the group's previous success as it's been most added two weeks in a row at radio and has garnered a Hot Shot Debut, Greatest Gainer and Most Airplay Adds a week prior to its August 7 release. This marks Sugarland's highest charting debut to date. It also ties them with Billboard's Country Singles Chart's 5th highest debut this year. After only a week since its release, "Want To" sits in the Top 25.

Sugarland exploded onto the country music scene in 2004 with Twice The Speed Of Life, which gave birth to mega hits "Baby Girl" and "Something More," both of which reached #2 on the charts and received digital platinum honors. Success translated to an overwhelming response for TV and award show performances, nominations, wins and big-time tours.

Sugarland has received a Grammy nomination, an American Music Award for "Breakthrough Favorite New Artist," an ACM award for "New Duo/Group of the Year" and four additional nominations, as well as three CMA nominations. They have performed on The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, the Radio Music Awards, Grammy's, CMA's, ACM's, CMT Awards, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve special, the season finale of Las Vegas and garnered the highest-rated CMT Crossroads with Bon Jovi. They have toured with Kenny Chesney and are currently touring with Brooks & Dunn.

For more information on Sugarland, contact
Jason Owen at 615-524-7563 or jason.owen@umusic.com
or log on to http://www.sugarlandmusic.com/ or http://www.umgnashville.com/

Source: Mercury Records

CONTACT: Jason Owen of Mercury Records, +1-615-524-7563, or
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