NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Warner Bros. Records) - It's cause for celebration in Bubleland as Canadian singer Michael Buble's new CD "
Call Me Irresponsible" debuts at No. 2 on next week's Billboard Pop charts - selling a staggering 212,000 copies. "Irresponsible," currently the top-selling digital album, debuted at No. 1 in Germany, Italy, and Holland and No. 2 in the U.K., it was confirmed today by Buble's label, Warner/Reprise Records.
As Buble gets set to embark on an 18-city US tour (beginning 7/12 in Reno, NV), the 31-year-old, multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated, four-time Juno-award-winning, Vancouver native has already sold out several arenas according to Don Fox at Beaver Productions - the tour's US promoter. Two shows at L.A.'s Greek Theatre (8/22 and 8/23) sold out in under 25 minutes, along with two shows at NY's Radio City Music Hall (7/31 and 8/1) and two shows at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre (7/23 and 7/24), which sold out within hours.
A tour itinerary for July and August follows.
Michael Buble is scheduled to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show on May 17.
"Call Me Irresponsible," produced by David Foster and Humberto Gattica, includes Buble's current smash-radio-hit "Everything," as wells as energy infused interpretations of standards from a variety of eras including songs by such greats as Leonard Cohen, Eric Clapton, Cy Coleman, Gamble and Huff, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer and others.
Buble arrived on the music scene with a groundbreaking 2003 self-titled debut CD. His multi-platinum follow-up, "It's Time," sold over 5.5 million copies and has remained on the Billboard Traditional Jazz charts for a staggering two years and in the No. 1 slot for over 80 weeks, holding the all time record. His overall record sales have totaled more than 12 million copies worldwide and his reputation as one of the world's consumate 'entertainers' is by now legendary.
7/12 Reno, NV Reno Events Center
7/14 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand
7/15 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
7/17 Salt Lake City, UT Ford Theater
7/18 Denver, CO Wells Fargo Theatre
7/20 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre
7/21 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre
7/23 Chicago, IL Chicago Auditorium Theatre
7/24 Chicago, IL Chicago Auditorium Theatre
7/27 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
7/28 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
7/31 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
8/1 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
8/4 Boston, MA Wang Theatre
8/5 Boston, MA Wang Theatre
8/7 Philadelphia, PA Mann Center
8/8 Philadelphia, PA Mann Center
8/10 Pittsburgh, PA Event's Center
8/11 Fairfax, VA Patriot
8/13 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre
8/14 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre
8/22 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
8/23 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
8/25 Oakland, CA Paramount Theatre
8/27 Portland, OR TBD
8/28 Seattle, WA McCaw Hall
8/29 Seattle, WA McCaw Hall
