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Simple Plan’s new song “The Antidote” reached 1 million Spotify streams in 1 week

AUTHOR: Dominika | 13. November 2021 | 1 comment

On Friday it has been exactly one week since Simple Plan released their brand new single “The Antidote” and on the same day the song has officially hit 1 million streams on Spotify. On Instagram the guys expressed their gratitude to their fans for listening to the new song and sharing it. Check out what they said below:

“Thank you everyone for streaming, sharing and adding the song to your playlists. We’re so grateful for all of the love, it means the world to us and we can’t wait to share even more with you!

– Simple Plan [on Instagram] –

What can you do to help even more?

  • continue streaming the the song and listening to it on all the platforms available. You can find it on Spotify for example:

  • Play the official visualizer on YouTube on your TV and rock out to it at home – there, the video already has over 300 000 views:

  • add the song to relevant playlists, so that more people can discover it
  • share the links to the song on your social media
  • talk about it with your friends – let them now that Simple Plan are back with a bang and more is coming very soon!

Pierre reveals new info about The Antidote videoshoot & album details in a new interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 10. November 2021 | no comments

Thanks to our loyal reader Mymie we learned that a Canadian web show called Le retour de 123 PUNK avec Rej Laplanche had Pierre Bouvier as a guest for an interview this week. The interview, which is in French is only available until November 12th through a private link, which you can aquire for free once you sign up for it here.

We asked Mymie to sum up for the most vital information that we would’ve learned in this interview, if we knew how to speak French. And surprisingly Pierre spilled some beans about the upcoming videoshoot for The Antidote and the new album:

  • Pierre said that the videoshoot would take place Tuesday or Wednesday (yesterday or today) in Los Angeles
  • The video is supposed to be edited as soon as possible, so that the music video comes out maximum in just a few weeks
  • He also mentioned that Simple Plan will release 3 to 4 songs before the album comes out

Quite exciting, isn’t it? What do you think the concept of the music video will be like? Let us know in the comments below or on our social media!

VIDEO: Behind the scenes of making The Antidote in the studio

AUTHOR: Dominika | 10. November 2021 | no comments

With Simple Plan’s new single “The Antidote” picking up hype on playlists all around the world, the band decided to reveal a little bit more from the making of this song by releasing a video footage from the behind the scenes of recording this song in the studio in California back in the summer of 2019.

Check it out in full below:

Pierre promises new Simple Plan album (out in early 2022) to be very rock, compares it to SNGA

AUTHOR: Dominika | 8. November 2021 | no comments

The British magazine RockSound published a new video call interview with Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan. In the interview, the reporter James Wilson-Taylor talked to Pierre about his band’s recent unexpected success with their past hits such as “What’s New Scooby-Doo?” and “I’m Just A Kid”, as well as Simple Plan’s new single and the upcoming 6th studio album.

When it came to the album (which, by the way, should be coming out in early 2022), Pierre noted that the core fans will be in love with this album, as it is “heavy and rock” and even compared it to one of the band’s most popular releases, the 2004 album “Still Not Getting Any”. Check out what Pierre said below:

“I would say The Antidote is a good indication [about the style of the record]. Obviously, there’s a few songs that are a little different. But mostly I would say this album is very… it’s more rock. It reminds me of like Still Not Getting Any, 2004-ish Simple Plan. I love the sound. […] Really heavy, rock… We have about 2 songs that are more on the pop kind of cross-over side, but everything else is just straight up pop-punk, so I think the fans who are, you know, big fans of Simple Plan will absolutely be stoked to hear this.

– Pierre Bouvier [Rocksound interview] –

And finally below you can check out the entire interview with Pierre:

Recap of Simple Plan’s Instagram live

AUTHOR: Dominika | 7. November 2021 | no comments

In case you missed it on Friday, thanks to our reader Sophie (@sophie_music05) you can now watch the full livestream that Simple Plan recently did on Instagram live on November 5th to celebrate the release of their new single “The Antidote”.

And in case you don’t have extra 35 minutes to watch it all right now, here’s a short recap of any important or interesting information we’ve learned in this livestream:

  • the guys discusses the behind the scenes of Jeff’s solo in “The Antidote” – turns out it wasn’t just Jeff playing it, but Pierre was controlling the pitch pedal to create the final crazy sound of the solo
  • there will be a music video for The Antidote, the guys have already chosen a director and are about to figure out the details of when it’s going to be filmed
  • Chuck confirmed that the music video for The Antidote will feature their actual fans in some way
  • Simple Plan’s official fanclub the SP Crew is currently under reconstruction, it will be back again: changed, but better
  • due to covid, soundchecks and VIP parties for the foreseeable future won’t be taking place, but as soon as the situation is better again, the guys want to reinstall these special fan meet-ups with the band too
  • to some extent, the album will have similar vibes as The Antidote, the songs are mostly classic Simple Plan but with a modern vibe to them
  • the fans can expect some collabs on the new album – the band is working on them right now
  • Simple Plan will make it up to their U.S. fans after the canceled tour – they are planning a new U.S. tour hopefully for spring/summer 2022

Check out the full livestream on the video below: