Stating which album is the best one is undoubtedlya very complicated and most importantly a very ungrateful job – “the best” being such a subjective attribute makes the decision-making process very difficult. Yet still many magazines and music websites have recently been publishing lots of “best albums of 2011″ lists – and Simple Plan’s 4th studio album is featured on at least two of them:

Alter The Press

According to Alter The Press, Get Your Heart On! reached the no. 8 spot on their TOP10 list of albums of the year:

“Even after twelve years of being together as a band, Simple Plan still manage the churn out the hits one by one with their fourth full-length studio release, ‘Get Your Heart On’. With songs like ‘Jet Lag’, which has already gone double platinum in Australia alone, this album is one not to be missed and has easily stolen the title for best pop/rock album of the year.”

Not only that – Alter The Press has also declared Simple Plan’s “Jet Lag” the best pop song of the year.

Our Zone Mag

Earlier this year Our Zone Mag gave Get Your Heart On! 9 out of 10 points in their review, calling is “simply awesome”. So it’s no wonder this album made it also to the their list of the best albums of 2011:

“This album marked the band’s return to their core pop-punk sound, which had been overshadowed in their previous couple of releases. Get Your Heart On! really embodies the charms of Simple Plan and has to be one of the best pop/rock albums of the year.

Thanks to my colleagues over at SPB.com here are a few amazing new original photos for the booklet of the Get Your Heart On! album. Some of them you may have seen already on each of the different versions of the official website, on which the guys did a complete makeover of themselves to look like bands like Wham!, The Ramones, RUN DMC and The Beach Boys. Now you can check out all these photos, including the original version of the one used on the front cover of Get Your Heart On!, in the gallery:

The new Simple Plan album – Get Your Heart On!, which came out only two weeks ago, has already gone gold in Canada, which (according to the Canadian Recording Industry Association – CRIA) means 40 000 units sold. Also, Simple Plan’s first single Jet Lag also went gold this week. Congratulations!

The record is indeed doing really well – most importantly in Canada! Get Your Heart On! debuted on the second place in Canadian music stores (with Adele being on the no.1 spot) which means Simple Plan have surpassed Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars or Rihanna in the past few weeks when it comes to weekly sales.

Also, the new album is doing pretty good overseas: it debuted on 10th spot in France and Germany, on no.7 in Switzerland and on 13th in Australia. And According to the US Billboard chart, it’s currently on the 52th place and on the 10th place of the alternative albums sales.

When it comes to the critical reception, according to Metalcritic, which ranks albums according to the reviews gives by other websites, magazines and other kinds of media, from 0 to 100, Simple Plan are currently at 66, which is a pretty positive news.

Even though most of you have probably listened to the new Simple Plan album already – either from the pre-order, from SimplePlan.com or via some less official ways, it’s definitely needless to remind everybody that today – June 21st 2011 – Get Your Heart On! is being officially released and Simple Plan will celebrate its release at a special concert in the New York City. All the most important info that you should know about the album can be found here.

I get a lot of questions from you guys asking me if there is a deluxe edition of the album available somewhere. As I posted earlier, there will be no deluxe edition (like the one you could get for the 3rd SP album) in a physical form. Although there is a deluxe version of the album available in a digital form via iTunes (and also was available via the Ultimate Fan Bundle pre-order), that includes music videos to CKMHOY and JL and also bonus tracks: Never Should’ve Let You Go, French version of Jet Lag and acoustic Loser Of The Year.

There are definitely two versions of the physical form of the album though: one normal (available pretty much everywhere) and one that is being sold in French territories only (and includes the French Jet Lag and a different sticker on the cover). And most probably there is also a special japanese version of the album. Each album also unlocks a special content after being put in to a computer.

And one more thing: at last night’s show in Montreal, Simple Plan played the live version of This Song Saved My Life, which has already (even after the few days of being available online) become something like fans’ anthem to Simple Plan – even if their music has saved their lives, or just changed them. Below you can check out the video from the show and watch the fans’ reactions:

Source: SPB.com

In just a week, you will all be able to have Get Your Heart On! at home in its physical form. Below you can check out the first look into the insides of this album and most importantly the design of the disc:

By the way, you can already find the original lyrics to all the songs from Get Your Heart On! in the Lyrics center.

And one more remark: if any links or hints to where one can download the album were posted anywhere on this website (either in the tagboard or in the comments) – they will be all deleted. Please, respect the band and this website. Thank you.

Three years of waiting for some new Simple Plan music are now over, ladies and gentlemen. Even though the album won’t physically come out till next week, tomorrow at 10am GMT AlterThePress.com will be streaming the whole Simple Plan’s album “Get Your Heart On!” online (unfortunately the stream is available for UK locations only & to those, who pre-ordered). So let’s do a little recap of everything you can look forward to.

Get Your Heart On! is officially being released on June 21st 2011 as the 4th Simple Plan’s studio album, following the band’s previous records: No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls (2002), Still Not Getting Any… (2004) and Simple Plan (2008). Simple Plan started working on Get Your Heart On! back in 2009, but they didn’t hit the studio in Vancouver till July 2010, where they were being mentored by the album’s producer Brian Howes. This is where they had to decide which of the 60 songs that they have written for the album, they would keep: which would end up on the final version of the record. The band chose 11 songs (needless to say the deluxe digital version of the album includes 2 bonus tracks; the French version of Jet Lag and also the song Never Should’ve Let You Go, which has been already recorded in the process of the making of the self-titled (3rd) record.

The tracklisting says it all: the album composes of lots of special guests. Jet Lag features two female singers: Natasha Bedingfield from the UK and Marie-Mai from Canada, who helped the song turn into a bi-lingual song with 2 versions: English and French one. Apart from these two ladies, the album features three male guests: the Somalian/Canadian singer/rapper K’Naan lent his voice to the song Summer Paradise, you can also hear All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth in the second verse of Freaking Me Out and Rivers Cuomo from Weezer guest stars in the track no.2: Can’t Keep My Hands Off You.

And the collaborations didn’t end with just singers: the album also features a large number of song-writers, who helped Chuck and Pierre co-write some of the songs. These talented people include for instance Jim Irvin, Michael Warren, Julian Emery, Claude Kelly or David Hodges.

The first music video released from Get Your Heart On! was for the song Can’t Keep My Hands Off You. Yet at the same time this song was not said to be an official single – the clip only accompanied the premiere of the Disney movie Prom, which features the song on its soundtrack. The second music video is finally for the first official single: Jet Lag which also started the very first changes on Simple Plan’s official website with the so-called Jet Lag Airlines. After that another series of changes took over SimplePlan.com and the band introcuded themselves as The Simple Plans (aka The Beach Boys), The SP’s (aka The Ramones), The Simple P’s (aka Run DMC) and Plan! (aka Wham!) and showed us a little bit different side of the last few decades of our music industry.

Astronaut has already been confirmed as the upcoming second single (and also the third, or perhaps fourth (if you count Jet Lag twice) music video). This song has also already given the name to the Simple Plan fans (who really wanted to have their own unique name): the Astronauts.

The album finishes with an epic ballad entitled This Song Saved My Life, which not only features Simple Plan’s fans’ vocals, but most importantly their stories and feelings about how the band, song or music in general has saved or changed their lives. Pierre and Chuck co-wrote this song with their fans via Twitter and came up with a song that will surely become one of the most important songs for all fans of Simple Plan.

One thing is clear though: tomorrow all the songs (except for the bonus tracks) will be available for streaming via pre-order or AlterThePress (UK only). The waiting worth three years is finally over and we can look forward to the next few years of Simple Plan touring all around the world… And have no worries, they will come to your country too. Just keep calm… and get your heart on! :)