ROSES - CHINESE DEMOCRACY BREAKS MYSPACE RECORDS

GUNS N' ROSES' highly anticipated new album CHINESE DEMOCRACY has smashed MySpace.com records after it was streamed on the social networking website on Thursday (20Nov08).
Fans rushed to check out the LP, the band's first in 15 years, and the release had received around 25 listens a second in its first 24 hours online (20-21Nov08).
The title track had been played more than 826,000 times by 4pm GMT on Friday - while the album had been played in its entirety on more than 3 million occasions.
The listening party figures are the largest amount of listeners for an artist album stream launch on MySpace to date.