On Friday’s show in Stuttgart, Germany, which kicked off the second half of Simple Plan’s European tour, the band performed their new single ‘Singing In The Rain’ live for the first time!
Check out how the guys rocked this new summer anthem on the video below:
If we needed just one more proof how incredible the Czech fans of Simple Plan are, here’s one: last week, Simple Plan’s new music video for ‘Singing In The Rain’ was added to Czech music TV’s Óčko music video chart as a new addition (N1). From there, by the fans’ votes, it was able to move up to any of the 20 places that are available on the Óčko chart.
And the fans made sure they wouldn’t let their band down and voted their fingers off. And thanks to their dedication, Simple Plan’s ‘Singing In The Rain’ climbed all the way up to the #2 spot on Óčko chart, beating several high profile artists, such as Justin Bieber, Sia or Meghan Trainor! Incredible. Congratulations!
You can help keep Simple Plan up on the chart’s #2 spot for next week – and even help them reach #1 too by voting for them daily on the link below:
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Simple Plan’s latest single of their new record ‘Taking One For The Team’ is celebrating first success on the US radios!
According to Headline Planet, last week ‘Singing in the Rain’ (which recently hit 900 000 views on YouTube) reached the TOP 50 on position #50 on HOT Adult Contemporary radio with 193 spins a week! That 77 more spins than in the previous week, when Simple Plan reached #60 (116 spins).
The of course raises chances of Simple Plan’s return to the United States, where they haven’t properly toured in a very long time.
Even though almost two months have passed since the Prague show, Simple Plan have not lost their popularity in Czech media since then. For instance, the song ‘Opinion Overload’, although not an official single from the Taking One For The Team album, the song has been going strong in the TOP 20 MODERN ROCK chart of the Czech branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). This particular chart documents the 20 most played rock songs on Czech radios every week.
As you can see from the table below, ‘Opinion Overload’ can currently pride itself with the highest position (#14) of this song on this chart ever since it reached the TOP 20:
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However it is their second single off their new record – Singing In The Rain, for which the band recently released a music video, that Simple Plan are counting on the most. And it is precisely the video and single for ‘Singing In The Rain’ that the Czech music website MusicServer reviewed very positively today – giving it 8/10. While the article admits that the song is definitely a very pop material, it describes it as a “well-written [song] that definitely stays in your head after first listen and makes one wanna tap their feet and immediately start singing along.” Along with that, MusicServer also marked the song as the next big summer hit, which is definitely a very good news!
And while radios over here in the Czech Republic are still only very slowly putting ‘Singing In The Rain’ on, as you already know from one of my previous articles, the Czech music television TV ÓČKO has been airing the music video for a couple days now. This week, the clip has also finally been added as a new addition (N1) to the Óčko chart, where starting today, you can start voting for it! In the past, the fans of Simple Plan have been known on this station to have extremely good voting skills, so let’s not disappoint this time and let’s move SP to the top of the chart! You can vote until Tuesday – just go on the chart’s website, scroll down to N1 and click on the link next to the title of the song.
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As Jeff Stinco mentioned on Twitter yesterday, the lead guitarist has recently given a large number of interviews for brazilian media, hinting on the band’s return to Brazil this fall.
In one of the interviews, that has already been released, Jeff discussed a number of issues including touring and new album – but I decided to point out two of Jeff’s answers: one of which gives us a little look behind the meaning of the music video for ‘Singing In The Rain’ and the other one that includes Jeff’s excitement about visiting Brazil later this year. Check out the English translation of the excerpt of the interview here [or the original full portuguese version here]:
One of the new music videos – “Singing In The Rain”, seems to be a retelling the story of the band’s career. What exactly did you want to express through this video?
Jeff: It’s not about our career. I think some people thought it is. We’ve been through the process but it’s not as if we lived that way. It’s more about the power of music and what it does for the band. Our band is different… We have a vocalist who is a well-focused guy. He has no “crazy ego”, he is very respectful to his bandmates, so he’s complete opposite of the guy in the video. You know, we are lucky because we all have girlfriends who are not involved in our lives, so the video is about having fun being in a band. It’s about the concept of having a band and what would happen if this band had a song, how long it would last. We also have a lot of influences from bands of that time, like The Beatles. I think our reference to The Beatles there is kind of obvious (laughs). And there is also a little reference to Simple Plan. It’s about the power of five guys who hang out together, form a band, write songs and build things around it.
We miss you in Brazil! It’s been already four years since the last time you were here. Do you have any good memories of the country?
Jeff: We will be back in Brazil this fall. We have a million memories from there! We go out and we have a lot of caipirinha, listen to great music. I have fun there. And one of the most exciting things is the energy that the fans have. We always say that our fans in Brazil are the craziest fans in the world. I can tell you that at every show we do around the world, there is always one Brazilian fan … always! We are very honored to have so much success in Brazil and we love the fans there very much. We have no confirmed date, but everything indicates that we will return in the fall.
