Today we commemorate the 5th anniversary since the release of Simple Plan’s third studio album – “Simple Plan”. The album came out on February 12th 2008 and featured 11 songs – most notably “When I’m Gone”, “Your Love Is A Lie” and “Save You”. For the band has this album been the tougest to write, as both Chuck and Pierre went through a writer’s block mostly due to family and relationships issues.

After the record was done, the band announced the first single “When I’m Gone” after a viral campaign on MySpace that signalized their return to the scene on October 29th 2007, when the band streamed a live webchat. Soon after that, the band revealed the first version of the album’s cover, which spurred mostly very negative reactions from the fans. And while Pierre at first released a blog on MySpace defending the artwork, a couple days later the band decided to leave it up to the fans to choose which artwork they would like on the cover of Simple Plan’s new record – the choice being between the first not-well received version and a black-and-white picture of the band. Needless to say that the fans chose the black-and-white option.

The closer we were getting to the release date, the band kept releasing more surprises under the SP wheel on SimplePlan.com, which included new lyrics, photos and special videos about each of the songs.

While it wasn’t Simple Plan’s most successful album, it definitely got the band a legion of new fans, who fell in love with the meaningful and emotional lyrics that this album has produced.

Today, February 12th 2012 we commemorate 4 years since the day that Simple Plan’s third studio album – simply called “Simple Plan” was released in 2008 … though it seems like it was just yesterday, right?

Congratulations to the anniversary! :)

Today we commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the release of Simple Plan’s third studio album – the self-titled album “Simple Plan”: the one that brought us singles like: “When I’m Gone”, “Your Love Is A Lie” and “Save You”.

Congratulations!

I suppose it’s no news to you that it’s almost Christmas time – after all there is only a month and half left till Christmas Eve. And it’s the most magical time of year that Sebastien with his friend/singer Katie Rox reminded us of by releasing their own Christmas EP!

The collaboration of Sebastien with Katie Rox is not a big surprise – we could have heard them together already before on the track Catch Me – but now we will have a chance to hear a whole EP of their own music. The album is called “Christmas Etc” and you can already check out the samples of three songs – “Stay (It’s Christmas)”, “Rich” and “Other Side” - on Seb’s and Katie’s new MySpace: myspace.com/SebastienAndKatie

The album should be released in a couple of weeks!

Also, don’t forget to view the album’s cover along of some new and old pictures of Seb and Katie in our gallery:

Today, on February 12th, we commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the release of the latest SP album – the self-titled album “Simple Plan”!

The CD that was released on February 12th 2008 was produced by Dave Fortman and co-produced by Danja Hills. Firstly it was supposed to come out few days before – on January 31st but then the release date was post-poned to February. For some people, this particular album was very different from all the previous Simple Plan’s work – in contrast with SNGA or NPNHJB it included a lot more pop and “hip-hop” elements – remember Chuck’s “rap” on Holding On?

The album included 11 songs (plus, the deluxe editions included also Running Out Of Time and an acoustic version of When I’m Gone), of which 3 came out to be singles – When I’m Gone, Your Love Is A Lie and Save You became the official singles and music videos were made for these 3 songs as well. The asian company Animax, who prodeces animated movies decided to publish the song I Can Wait Forever (which is also included on the soundtrack from the animated movie LaMB) as an animated music video, even thought it has never been released as an official single. Next songs, which weren’t released as singles but were played in radios anyway were “No Love” and “Generation” – the latter was even chosen to become the goal song for the 100th season of the hockey team Montreal Canadiens (whch is by the way Simple Plan’s favourite hockey team).