Rod Stewart's Newest #1 Album STILL THE SAME ... GREAT ROCK CLASSICS OF OUR TIME Certified RIAA Gold

Rod Stewart's Newest #1 Album STILL THE SAME ... GREAT ROCK CLASSICS OF OUR TIME Certified RIAA Gold

Latest Success Anticipates Jan. 12th Opening of 56-City North American Tour

STILL THE SAME ... Builds on Global Phenomenon of Grammy-winning The Great American Songbook Series, With Cumulative Worldwide Sales Over 16 Million for First Four Volumes

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- With the countdown on to the January 12th kick-off of his 56-city 2007 North American tour, J Records artist Rod Stewart adds a brand new gold record to his shelf, as his 4th #1 career album STILL THE SAME ... GREAT ROCK CLASSICS OF OUR TIME is certified gold by the RIAA for U.S. sales in excess of 500,000 units.

STILL THE SAME is a landmark album for Rod Stewart. Released October 10th, it entered the Billboard 200 albums chart at #1 -- 35 years to the month since he charted his first #1 and first RIAA gold album Every Picture Tells A Story back in 1971 (containing his first #1 and first RIAA gold single, "Maggie May"). STILL THE SAME is Rod's 35th Billboard charting album, and his 30th album to be certified gold, platinum, or multi-platinum by the RIAA.

STILL THE SAME was Rod's 6th Top 10 debut and his 4th consecutive studio album to enter the Billboard charts inside the Top 2. He thereby joined Garth Brooks and Jay-Z as the only artists in the Sound Scan era to have 4 (or more) albums debut in the Top 2 within a 3 year span. STILL THE SAME is Rod's first rock album to hold the #1 spot since Blondes Have More Fun in 1979. More recently, his standards album Stardust ... The Great American Songbook Volume III entered at #1 in October 2004.

This success sets the stage for the upcoming tour, which opens January 12th at BankAtlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The tour features Rod's nine piece band and his three stellar back up singers, and will showcase a rotating circular center stage -- the first time in over a decade that his stage will be designed in the round, giving fans an intimate, unfettered 360 degree view of the concert. Promoted by AEG Live, the tour is scheduled to wrap up on May 9th at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, New York. (Please visit http://www.rodstewart.com/ to view the complete tour itinerary.)

STILL THE SAME's RIAA gold certification is the latest emblematic feat for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Rod Stewart, who possesses one of the most distinctive rock voices in history, and one of the great interpretive voices in all of popular music. The new album finds Rod in strong and passionate form, taking ownership of a thoughtfully selected program of rock classics by some of the best songwriters of our time, including Bob Dylan ("If Not For You"), Van Morrison ("Crazy Love"), Bob Seger ("Still the Same") and John Fogerty ("Have You Ever Seen the Rain" which was the #1 most added single at the AC radio format for three weeks in a row).

Produced by John Shanks (winner of the 2005 Grammy award for Producer of the Year) and co-produced by Clive Davis (Grammy-winning co-producer of Santana's Supernatural), STILL THE SAME ... GREAT ROCK CLASSICS OF OUR TIME follows up the unprecedented critical and commercial success of Rod's Grammy Award-winning Great American Songbook series on J Records. To date, the first four volumes in the series -- which is now the biggest-selling ongoing series of new music recordings in history -- have cumulative sales of more than 16 million copies worldwide: It Had To Be You ... The Great American Songbook (2002, RIAA triple-platinum), As Time Goes By ... The Great American Songbook, Volume II (2003, double-platinum), Stardust...The Great American Songbook: Volume III (2004, RIAA platinum), and Thanks For The Memory... The Great American Songbook: Volume IV(2005, RIAA platinum).

Source: J Records

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