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May 6, 2009
Bob Dylan’s New Album Clinches Top Spots on U.S. and U.K. Album Charts
Together Through Life, Bob Dylan’s new album has debuted at #1 on both the U.S. and U.K. album charts. This achievement marks the second time in a row that Dylan has landed a new album atop the U.S. charts and the first time he has landed a new release atop the U.K. album charts since New Morning was released in 1970.
In addition to his current chart-topping status in the U.S. and U.K., Dylan’s Together Through Life has also secured #1 spots on the charts in Austria and Denmark. The new album is nestled among the top 5 in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Holland, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and New Zealand, and Top 10 rankings in Italy, France and Belgium.
In addition to the place that Dylan’s new album will occupy amongst fan collections around the world, TV movie giant HBO has decided to use the album’s first track, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin,” as the soundtrack for a run of promotional spots promoting the network’s hit series True Blood.
True Blood creator Alan Ball decided the new Dylan song would be a perfect fit for HBO’s promotional efforts. “When I heard the song, I knew it would be a perfect fit for our characters and storylines,” he said. The second season of True Blood starts on on June 14.
In addition to its use on HBO, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin” is also the inspiration for a short film by award winning director Nash Edgerton. The film will be shown on the IFC Channel as well as on IFC.com, starting on May 12.
The HBO promo spots featuring the new Dylan track can be viewed here.
March 30, 2009
New Bob Dylan Track Available For Free Download For Limited Time
The first track from Bob Dylan’s forthcoming release, Together Through Life, has been posted as a free download on BobDylan.com. Titled “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”, the song will be available for free from midnight, March 30th through midnight, March 31st. Together Through Life will be released on Columbia Records on April 28th.
Together Through Life, produced by Jack Frost, was recorded late last year, prompted by the composition of a new song, “Life Is Hard,” which was written for a forthcoming film by French director Oliver Dahan (La Vie En Rose).
The new album will be the 46th release from Bob Dylan, and follows 2006’s Platinum album Modern Times, which 
debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and reached the top of the charts in seven additional countries and the Top 5 in 22 countries around the world.
Dylan’s three previous studio albums have been universally hailed as among the best of his storied career, achieving new levels of commercial success and critical acclaim for the artist. The Platinum-selling Time Out Of Mind from 1997 earned multiple Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year, while “Love and Theft” continued Dylan’s Platinum streak and earned several Grammy nominations and a statue for Best Contemporary Folk album. His most recent studio work, Modern Times, became one of his biggest albums worldwide, selling more than 2.5 million copies and earning Dylan two more Grammys.
Those three studio albums fell within a ten-year creative span that also included an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning tune, “Things Have Changed,” from the film Wonder Boys, in 2001, a worldwide best selling memoir, Chronicles, which spent 19 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List, in 2004, a Martin Scorsese-directed documentary, No Direction Home, in 2005, and several volumes of the best-selling Bootleg Series, which culminated in last year’s highly-acclaimed Tell Tale Signs.
Dylan was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” He was also the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, the French Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1990, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000 and numerous other awards and accolades.
