5SOS: HOW BIG?
Capitol's 5 Seconds of Summer’s hotly anticipated album streets this week and is set to crash into the #1 spot on next week's HITS Album Sales Chart; early reads have it in the 250-275k ball park.
The band will headline a show at L.A.'s newly refurbished Forum on 11/15, it was announced today.
In the meantime, of course, the band is stoking the fire surrounding the album drop with a huge TODAY Show appearance today, a block party on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday (7/24) and other splashy stuff.
The Aussies' eponymous full-length (which earned more pre-orders than any release in UMGD history) is making the iTunes album chart its bitch; they're currently on a massive tour with One Direction (with whom they share Modest Management); and they'll be among the performers at the VMAs on 8/24.
The world, as the saying goes, is their oyster. To discover how they got here, see our setup story.
In other Capitol news, Steve Barnett’s second annual Capitol Congress gets underway this week in Hollywood. Find out what’s in store—and whom you might spy there—in our roundup here.
