Vocal
sensations Pentatonix, who are about to
embark on their very first – and completely sold out – European
tour, have announced dates for their upcoming North American
headline tour, including a Chicago Theatre concert
performance on Saturday, February 8, 2014. Show time will be
7:30pm.
Pentatonix has just released their second
album PTX Volume 2. The new recording
will feature 8 brand new tracks, including 3 original songs, 4
covers and a modern twist on the classic “Hit The Road
Jack”. A special iTunes release features a 7-song
Daft Punk medley, its video just released via the
group’s YouTube Channel, as well as a mash-up of
Swedish House Mafia hits
“Save The World” and “Don’t Worry
Child” as an album-only bonus track.
Pentatonix recently won the YouTube Music
Award in the “Response of The Year” category for
their cover of “Radioactive” alongside
Lindsey Stirling. The video has garnered
almost 45 million views. Online,Pentatonix’s
YouTube channel boasts almost 160 million views, buoyed by nearly
1.9 Million subscribers, and is one of the Top 100 most
subscribed-to music channels. The group also has more than 550,000
Facebook fans and nearly 150,000 Twitter followers. The
band’s latest video release, a cover of Lorde’s #1
hit “Royals” has garnered more than 11 million
views and is the most-viewed YouTube cover of the New Zealand
star’s highly-duplicated indie anthem. Additionally, the
group’s a cappella opus – “Evolution Of Music” –
has now eclipsed 22 million YouTube views, after gathering nearly
5.5 million in its first week. The video spans 1,000 years of music
in just 4 minutes, includes some of the most popular songs from the
last dozen centuries and has been featured by The Huffington Post,
Mashable and the Yahoo! homepage.
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