JOURNEY’S ‘REVELATION’ SELLS MORE THAN 104,000 UNITS IN DEBUT WEEK

Three-Disc CD/DVD Package Exclusively Available at Wal-Mart Stores



June 10, 2008 -- JOURNEY’s new three-disc CD/DVD package REVELATION has sold more than 104,000 copies in its debut week according to Wal-Mart Stores, marking the band’s biggest first week’s sales since 1996’s TRIAL BY FIRE.
Released June 3, REVELATION is being sold exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club in North America, Walmart. com and Samsclub. com, and Journey’s official website, Journeymusic. com.
REVELATION’s first week’s sales marks a 1400% increase over the band’s 2005’s first week’s sales of GENERATIONS.



"We are thrilled with the early success of Journey's ‘Revelation’ music project, and clearly our customer is excited about it too,” said Jeff Maas, Divisional Merchandise Manager, Entertainment, Wal-Mart U.S. “We believe that if we continue to find innovative products, priced to showcase the value, our customers will show their excitement by purchasing the product. Journey has been great to work with and clearly this reflects a win for them and for our customer.

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The first disc consists of 11 new songs, the second is filled with 11 re-recorded classics, and the third is a live, in-concert DVD. All of the music on REVELATION was produced by Kevin Shirley (who previously worked with JOURNEY on their Platinum-certified TRIAL BY FIRE album).



REVELATION marks a new chapter in the legendary career of multi-Platinum rockers JOURNEY, thanks to two singles at Rock and AC radio (“Never Walk Away” and “After All These Years”) and rave reviews, including the New York Times who hailed: “…the band seems to have taken rock vitamins: it feels alive.

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JOURNEY--Neal Schon (guitar), Jonathan Cain (keyboards), Ross Valory (bass), Deen Castronovo (drums) and Arnel Pineda (vocals)—is currently on a European tour through June 28. They’ll start a massive summer U.S. tour with special guests Heart and Cheap Trick on July 9 in Denver, CO.



For more information on Journey, visit www. journeymusic. com.

No Perry, No Journey...

KingsRite

You are really missing out my friend. Most fans who have reviewed the new disc like it better than the last two Perry discs (Trial By Fiar and Raised on Radio) and pretty much every fan who reviewed it likes it better than the Augeri material. The songs are certainly better written tracks that's for sure. It's my thord favorite Journey album right behind Escape and Frontiers and I have been a fan since 1978.

I can hear the ascent tones in the new vocalist voice as well.

I would prefer that they stop trying to replicate Perry and find somebody that sounds completely different.

Don't get me wrong, I love Journey music.

They realize how special Perry was.

If not, they wouldn't keep on trying to replicate his sound.

Each to their own though. If you like it that is all that matters.

It's just a personal choice on my part.

KingsRite

Yeah, I can understand the hesitancy and I personally don't like copy cats but this guy really works for Journey. His voice suits their music much better than Steve Augeri's did. The bottom line for me is that the new songs are just good. Do you like other AOR style bands? This year has been really great for this style of music!

It's a good album. I'd put it on par with Raised on Radio, but IMO,
Trial By Fire was a lot better because of the music and the lyrics.
They did more interesting things in both departments on that album. On
Revelation, they went back to more of the poppy love songs.

Arnel does a fantastic job, though.

I think the new journey rock! Its one of those cds that you can listen over and over again. I did think though that arnel was not as good on the second cd though of re-recorded songs.

Alex

Who else has seen Journey on this tour?

Will be seeing them in Indy in September. Can't wait!

Not a huge Journey fan by any strech of the imagination, but that's an amazing story, I may have to pick this one up.

One of the guys at work picked this up about a week after it was released. It's actually pretty good, overall.

Pineda has a definite mastery of that trademarked "turn the vowel into and "E" sound" thing that Perry did to excess......and tonally, he's just incredibly close. There's gonna be "casual fans" that won't be able to tell the differences...I'm still debatring picking this one up as well, just because I KNOW it's not somethign that would be a frequent player, and Mrs. Exo seems to not really care about it too much....