GLASS ANIMALS’ NEW ALBUM I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH DEBUTS TOP 5 ACROSS SIX BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS

GLASS ANIMALS’ NEW ALBUM I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH DEBUTS TOP 5 ACROSS SIX BILLBOARD ALBUM CHARTS
 
CHARTS IN THE TOP 5 IN THE U.K. AND AUSTRALIA
 
KICKS OFF GLOBAL HEADLINE “TOUR OF EARTH” NEXT WEEK IN THE U.S.
PERFORMING AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN & KIA FORUM
 
LISTEN TO I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH HERE
 

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“Love songs have existed for millennia but leave it to Glass Animals to give them a refreshing spin, where love isn’t always a honeymoon phase or heartbreak — it’s much, much more.” – Associated Press
 
“Following up a record-breaking smash like ‘Heat Waves’ is no easy task, and on the charming new album I Love You So F***ing Much, Glass Animals shrug off chart expectations while still baking oversized hooks and harmonies into the 10 songs.” – Billboard
 
“I Love You So F***ing Much is a natural continuation from Dreamland with big, heavy bass lines, woozier synths, and larger pop sounds.” – Rolling Stone
 
“[On] I Love You So F—ing Much, the Englishmen embrace a sort of majestic, celestial loneliness.” – GRAMMY.com
 
“A 10-track delivery that explores existential qualms and galaxies far away. Glass Animals has gone out of this world for its fourth studio album.” – HYPEBEAST
 
“Filled with expressions of vulnerability and longing” – NPR Weekend Edition
 

NEW YORK, NY – JULY 30TH, 2024 – Today, GRAMMY® and BRIT-nominated, Diamond-selling British band Glass Animals’ critically acclaimed fourth studio album, I Love You So F***ing Much, debuts in the Top 5 across six Billboard Album Charts with over 16 million streams in its first week of release—see the band’s US charting success below:
 

#1 on Billboard Indie Store Album Sales Chart
#2 on Billboard Vinyl Albums Chart
#3 on Billboard Top Rock Albums Chart
#3 on Billboard Top Alternative Albums Chart
#4 on Billboard Top Rock & Alternative Albums Chart
#4 on Billboard Top Album Sales Chart
#11 on Billboard 200 Chart

 
Meanwhile, globally, I Love You So F***ing Much debuted in the Top 5 on the Official U.K. and Australia Albums Charts and Top 10 on the Official New Zealand Album Chart, with Glass Animals also seeing their highest chart debut positions to date in numerous countries around the world, including Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Austria. Upon the album’s highly anticipated release, the band delivered an out-of-this-world performance of their new single “Show Pony” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as well as cosmic-inspired, live renditions of “Creatures In Heaven” and “Show Pony” for Vevo. Singer, songwriter, producer, and frontman Dave Bayley—who fully wrote and produced the album himself—also sat down with Anthony Mason on CBS Mornings and Zach Sang on Zach Sang Show to deep-dive into the new album, its creation process, and coming to terms with the global success of 2020’s Dreamland and their breakthrough, RIAA Diamond Certified hit “Heat Waves,” which is now the 11th most-streamed song in Spotify’s history.
 
Having performed a string of intimate, underplay pop-up shows for fans across the world leading up to the album’s release, Glass Animals begins their mammoth North American leg of their “Tour Of Earth” next week on August 7th in Charlotte, NC, playing arenas and amphitheaters to tens of thousands of fans across the country this summer, including sold-out dates at Madison Square Garden on August 13th and The Kia Forum on September 14th. The “Tour of Earth” continues in the UK, Europe, and Australia later this year, with the band playing London’s O2 and two nights at Sydney’s Opera House Forecourt in November. See the full list of North American tour dates below and HERE.
 
Painting 10 portraits of love in all its messy forms, I Love You So F***ing Much is the most personal record that Bayley has ever written. From the existential to the intimate, from the first love we witness around us as children, to romance, hate, and heartbreak—each song is dedicated to a different side of love. From a tiny teardrop in an airlock to a vast galaxy, I Love You So F***ing Much is an expansive record with retro-futuristic production that travels in and out of the “shapelessness of love.” “Show Pony,” the album’s opening track, is a lucid tale of a relationship from start to finish. Bayley shares, “Our first blueprints of love are the relationships we see and experience growing up. They aren’t always perfect, but they completely shape our understanding of love. That’s why I wanted ‘Show Pony’ to open the album. It throws you in at the deep end, but that’s life.”
 
I Love You So F***ing Much is the follow-up to 2020’s critically revered Dreamland, which sold over 12 million copies globally and gave life to “Heat Waves,” the record-breaking song that became the biggest international hit from a British band in almost 30 years. It was the first song to reach #1 with a single writer and producer since Pharrell’s “Happy,” and led to the pop world’s biggest acts, including Florence Welch, all wanting to work with Bayley. But the birth of I Love You So F***ing Much was rooted in an existential crisis. Dave found himself struggling to make sense of this newfound global stardom, having watched it all happen while the world was in lockdown. “Life can change dramatically, but sometimes you aren’t able to change as quickly on a personal level. You end up feeling like a spectator. And then you are asked and expected to be a certain type of person, a different person. But…I wasn’t sure how. It confused me to the point of not knowing who I was or if anything was real.” It took being stranded on a cliff in a wooden house on stilts during one of California’s biggest storms in history to push that feeling into a full existential crisis. In forced isolation, watching trees tumble down mountains and assuming “death was coming,” Dave began asking questions of himself, of the universe, and of the human experience: namely, love. As he came to accept himself as an introvert, Dave realized that “human connection and the love between us is much bigger, more important, and more complex than anything else.” However vast space is, deep human connections make the void seem less empty.
 
From one infinite song, that set the stage for the biggest British contemporary band to break records and tour the globe, to the infinite possibility of their profound cosmic fourth studio album, Glass Animals are ready to tell their millions of fans, and perhaps themselves: I Love You So F***ing Much.

 

Photo Credit: Drewby Perez
 
ADDITIONAL CRITICAL PRAISE:
 
“Glass Animals have crafted something that demands – and rewards – repeated listens. It’s an album that feels like a journey, one that leaves you changed by the end.” – DORK 5*
 
“Confident, self-aware, and ambitious” – DIY 4.5*
 
“Existential crises never sounded this good” – Rolling Stone UK
 
“A confident and well-crafted album” – CLASH
 
“Another step forward as they up the ante with each era” – The Line Of Best Fit
 

I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH TRACKLISTING:
1. “Show Pony”
2. “whatthehellishappening”
3. “Creatures in Heaven”
4. “Wonderful Nothing”
5. “A Tear in Space (Airlock)”
6. “I Can’t Make You Fall in Love Again”
7. “How I Learned To Love The Bomb”
8. “White Roses”
9. “On the Run”
10. “Lost in the Ocean”
 
HUMAN MUSICAL GROUP SENSATIONS GLASS ANIMALS: TOUR OF EARTH - NORTH AMERICA DATES:
Wed Aug 07 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion +
Thu Aug 08 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre +
Sat Aug 10 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at the Mann +
Sun Aug 11 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center +
Tue Aug 13 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden +
Fri Aug 16 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek +
Sat Aug 17 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion +
Tue Aug 20 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage +
Wed Aug 21 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center +
Fri Aug 23 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center +
Sat Aug 24 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre +
Sun Aug 25 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center +
Tue Aug 27 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena +
Wed Aug 28 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island +
Thu Aug 29 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island +
Sat Aug 31 – Kansas City, KS – Azura Amphitheater ~^*
Sun Sep 01 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP ~
Tue Sep 03 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre ~
Wed Sep 04 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre ~
Thu Sep 05 – Salt Lake City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre ~
Sat Sep 07 – Seattle, WA – The Gorge Amphitheatre ~^
Sun Sep 08 – Vancouver, BC – Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena ~
Wed Sep 11 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre ~
Fri Sep 13 – Chula Vista, CA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre ~
Sat Sep 14 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum ~^
Tue Sep 17 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre ~
Fri Sep 20 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion ~
Sat Sep 21 – The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion ~
Sun Sep 22 – Austin, TX – Moody Center ~
 
*Non-Live Nation Date
 
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