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Lead singers of Tonight Alive and State Champs name SP amongst their favorite Warped memories in new Billboard article

To commemorate Warped Tour coming to its close (with today actually being the very last Warped Tour day), Billboard released a new article entitled “Goodbye, Warped Tour: 21 Bands Relive Their Favorite Festival Memories in Their Own Words”.

From our point of view, it’s certainly very interesting to see how much of a footprint Simple Plan have left not only in the hearts of Warped attendees, but also in the bands that took part in the final cross-country tour. For example, the lead singers of both Tonight Alive/b> and State Champs mentioned Simple Plan as one of the people who’ve made their Warped memories even greater. Check out what Jenna McDougall from Tonight Alive and Derek DiScanio from State Champs said about Simple Plan below:

‘Whoever we met and toured with on Warped Tour that summer, we would often go out with the next fall or the next spring. This year Simple Plan is on the tour, and it’s not the first time that we’ve toured together. They’re really beautiful people, and it’s just this really amazing experience to ride the same wavelength as the people who’ve influenced your musical career. We used to watch Simple Plan DVDs when we had band practice when I was 15 years old. These bands seeped into our bloodstreams, and now we are out here touring with them. We’re still on completely different levels, but it is cool to be on the same lineup, eat together, and sit out on the back of the trailers every night.’

– Jenna McDougall (Tonight Alive) –

‘The small bands look up to larger bands, but those larger bands will do everything they can to help the smaller ones. Everyone is here for the right reasons. Simple Plan, who I have loved forever, on the first day of the tour [this year] came right up to us saying, “Hey, we love your band, will you guys come on stage and sing with us tomorrow?” So now I’m singing “I’m Just A Kid” with Simple Plan during shows, and I’m like a kid in a candy store up there. There is no room for egos on this tour, and that’s why it’s going to be sad to see it go. ‘

– Derek DiScanio (State Champs) –

Billboard’s 10th most viewed livestream of 2016 was Simple Plan!

When Simple Plan visited Billboard’s studios in NYC this past August and did a performance of a couple songs – old and new, which were streamed live on Facebook, they had no idea that that livestream would in fact become one of the 10 most viewed livestreams Billboard has done in all of 2016!

Billboard has just released a recap video of the TOP 10 most viewed livestreams and Simple Plan reached number 10 with 264 000 views! Check out the full list of all the TOP most viewed livestreams on Billboard in 2016 as well as the recap video below:

#10 – Simple Plan
#9 – Young M.A
#8 – Needtobreathe
#7 – Dvicio
#6 – Wiz Khalifa
#5 – Scott Stapp
#4 – Jordan Smith
#3 – JoJo
#2 – Sabrina Carpenter
#1 – Lindsey Stirling

New York (promo) minute

To promote their new record and mostly their new single “Singing In The Rain” a bit more in the U.S., before they headed back to Canada, where they’ll perform today, the members of Simple Plan visited New York City, where they had a full day of promo stuff scheduled up.

Firstly, the guys visited the MLB Central studios, where the boys even tried how good of an anchormen they could be and also played some baseball. Check out their performance of the censored “Singing In The Rain” on this channel below:

After that, Pierre, Jeff, Seb and David moved to the Billboard offices, where they held a short but sweet acoustic performance, which was streamed live on Billboard’s Facebook page. The guys played three songs: ‘I’d Do Anything’, ‘Welcome To My Life’ and ‘Singing In The Rain’. You can check out this full performance below:

And finally, the guys also headed to the FUSE studios, where as announced earlier, the band took part in a live webchat on FUSE’s Facebook page [recap of the webchat to follow up in the next article]. You can now have a look at photos from all three Simple Plan’s promo visits in NYC in the gallery:

CURIOSITY: Simple Plan promo billboard in Mexico

In just a couple of weeks, Simple Plan will be heading out to Mexico, where they will perform at four dates – Merida, Monterrey, Mexico City and Guadalajara. And while here in Europe, we’re mostly used to Simple Plan shows being advertised only on regular outdoor posters, the Mexican promoters went all in and put up huge billboards announcing the band’s return to Mexico!

Check out this picture posted on Instagram by Karla (@karichyan), which shows you one of these billboards which is located in Monterrey: