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Summer Paradise among 50 most played videos on MTV in 2012

The VIMN International Media Networks today announced the most played music videos on 60 MTV channels all across the world in 2012. The highest spots on the list feature artists like Gotye, Carly Rae Jepsen, Maroon 5 or Katy Perry.

Among the list of 50 most played music videos was also Simple Plan’s video for “Summer Paradise” (feat. Sean Paul). MTV played this song over 10 000 times, for which Simple Plan have now received a Platinum award.

After receiving this exciting news, Chuck took to Twitter to thank everyone who helped the band make it this far: “Thank you so much for all the amazing support, MTV! And of course, thanks to all the Astronauts for being the reason why this could happened in the 1st place! You mean everything to us!

Congratulations!

Chuck discusess unsuccess of self-titled album and more in a new in-depth ATP interview

Simple Plan’s drummer Chuck Comeau recently sat down again with Alter The Press’ Jon Ableson, to have a little more in-depth conversation about the just-released book “Simple Plan: The Official Story” and how it was reminiscing about the old days.

The two discuss the early beginnings of Simple Plan – and even mention things that had to be edited from the book, so that it wouldn’t be 500 pages long – for example the story of how they got Joel Madden to sing on their very first record.

Chuck also opens up about the times when SP recorded their debut album/ and how it wasn’t as funny and entertaining as it seemed on the DVD – actually being the exact opposite. Most importantly, Chuck talks more about the self-titled’s album not receiving as much success as earlier Simple Plan records – mostly in the US/, which resulted in the band not being able to tour in this country properly ever since.

And finally the interview also deals with the curious switch from K’Naan to Sean Paul as a guest on “Summer Paradise”.

You can check out the full interview by reading on (or check it on AlterThePress.com):

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Teasers for Simple Plan’s performance on On Connaît La Chanson

This Sunday, December 9th, TVA will be broadcasting a special Christmas episode of a game show called On connaît la chanson that Simple Plan along with Marie-Mai will be a part of. You can now view the first revealed mini-sized picture from the taping and also three new teasers for the show, which revealed that Simple Plan will play at least 3 songs: Welcome To My Life, Jet Lag (feat. Marie-Mai) and Summer Paradise.

Check them out: teaser #1, teaser #2 & teaser #3

Simple Plan on New Music Live and more press

Yesterday evening, Chuck and Sebastien had more more media-related stop regarding the promotion of their new book – this time at New Music Live on MuchMusic. You can check out some awesome shots from the taping of the show in the gallery:

The gallery has also been updated with more pictures from the webchat Chuck and Seb did two days ago, from the follow-up signing session in Toronto and from all the interviews done for various media outlets in Toronto yesterday:

And if you want to check out one of the interviews Simple Plan did yesterday, here is one for CP24 Breakfast:

Press day in Toronto, Canada

While the guys are currently in Toronto, Canada, another press day regarding their newly released book was on schedule. As the book was only recently released in English, it was only natural for the English-speaking media to be interested in the book just like it was with the French-speaking media at the beginning of November.

The guys had to be up pretty early to attend a couple of morning TV and radio programs in Toronto. Check out the first few pictures from a couple of media that the members of SP visited today:

And below you can check out the full interview with Chuck and Sebastien for The Morning Show that aired on Global earlier today: