Sugarland having a real good week

Mercury Nashville duo Sugarland tops both the country and Top 200 sales charts this week with the August 4th release ofLive On The Inside, a CD/DVD set bonus for the fans. Live’s 76k debut was sold exclusively at Walmart andwww.walmart.com. Their August 3rd ABC television network special delivered as well, drawing in more than 4 million viewers. Since the airing of the ABC special and release of the set, catalog sales and activity onwww.sugarlandmusic.com have increased exponentially. Unique visitors to the official homepage have quadrupled and sales of previous albums continue to rise as reflected below. During the week of August 2nd, online hits rose from an average of 30k visitors per week to nearly 110k. And page views totaled over 445k. Specifically for the dates of August 2nd and 3rd, site traffic surged to over 60k unique visitors.
Increase In Catalog Album Sales Since August 3:
Twice The Speed Of Life +123%
Enjoy The Ride +75%
Love On The Inside +77%
The live CD/DVD set marks the second time Sugarland has topped both sales charts. Kristian Bush and Jennifer Nettles made the set for the fans and it includes original songs and some great covers: Kristian: “Our fans are such great fans that they’ve been pestering us for a long time to put out a live record. And we’ve been excited about being able to put our show on tape in order to go and play the show in everybody’s living room.” Jennifer: “You’ll get to see the full length show which is an hour and a half and in addition to that, you also get a live CD that has a few songs from that same live show. But the majority of which are covers that we’ve done live and collected over the past few years, everything from Beyonce to the B52s to Kings of Leon.”

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