Dream Theater: Difference between revisions

Dream Theater has become a successful [[progressive metal]] band, despite the drop in popularity of the genre since the mid-1970s.{{Clarify me|date=March 2009}} Although the band has had a few successful hits (notably "[[Pull Me Under]]" in the early 1990s, which received extensive [[MTV]] rotation), they have mostly stayed underground for their career.

 

 

The band's highest selling album is the gold selling ''[[Images and Words]]'' (1992), which reached #61 on the [[Billboard 200]] charts.<ref name="charts">Billboard Chart history for Dream Theater can be seen at [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=14435&model.vnuAlbumId=681399 Billboard.com].</ref> Both the 1994 release ''[[Awake (Dream Theater album)|Awake]]'' and their 2002 release ''[[Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence]]'' also entered the charts at #32 and #46 respectively and received mostly positive reviews. ''Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence'' also led to Dream Theater becoming the initial band reviewed in the Music Section of [[Entertainment Weekly]] during its opening week of release, despite the magazine generally preferring more mainstream music. In 2007, ''[[Systematic Chaos]]'' entered US Billboard 200 at #19.<ref name="charts"/> Dream Theater has sold over two million albums in the U.S.,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.marketingtomenconference.com/marketingtomen/bb_article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003544204 | year=2007| title=February 9 2007 | work=Nielsen Soundscan News | accessdate=2007-02-11 }}</ref> and over 8 million records worldwide.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/DreamTheater/video.aspx | year=2007 | title=When Dream Theater and Roadrunner Records Unite! | work=dreamtheater.net | accessdate=2007-02-12}}</ref> The band has finished recording their tenth studio album, ''[[Black Clouds & Silver Linings]]'', which is scheduled for release on June 23.