As their “Awake & Alive” tour packs houses across the U.S., Atlantic/Ardent/INO rockers Skillet’s 2006 release, “Comatose,” has been certified Gold by the RIAA, while their latest effort, “Awake,” which debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at No. 2, has surpassed 200,000 units in just 12 weeks. Likewise, “Awake” remains a top-ten charting Christian project, best-selling CD overall on Billboard’s Top 200, a top 30 best-seller on iTunes® Rock album chart, and boasts the No. 2 and No. 8 top Christian digital singles with “Monster” and “Hero” respectively.

 

Along with album sales, mainstream Active Rock radio and video channels like MTV2 and FUSE are also propelling Skillet.

Active Rock radio has given Skillet a top 10 single with “Monster,” hitting No. 9 with a bullet on BDS this week and No. 10 with a bullet at MediaBase. As their music video for “Monster” recently moved into MTV2’s ELITE 8, the band also hosted the network’s Rock the Deuce show and talked about their favorite videos and more. Rock the Deuce calls itself “the heaviest rock show in American history.” Catch clips from the show at:

 

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/44620...tml#id=1623864

FUSE: “Monster” is a hit on both the network’s Number One Rock Countdown show and Viewers Choice.

TOUR SELLING OUT AND PACKING HOUSES COAST TO COAST:

As their “Awake & Alive” Tour rolls across the U.S., the band has rocked sold out and capacity crowds in Chicago, Tulsa, Columbus, Boston, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, Boise, Denver,

Minneapolis, Des Moines and more.

Skillet recently announced they will be touring with Shinedown and Puddle of Mudd in January and February 2010. For tour dates and updates go to:

http://www.skillet.com or

http://myspace.com/skilletmusic.

Along with NBC’s use of “Hero” for Sunday Night Football and NFL Weekend Kickoff promos, an exclusive video performance of “Monster” opening each week’s ACC College Football games with Raycom Sports, and WWE’s use of the song for NBC’s nationally televised 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania special and WWE’s new “Smackdown vs. Raw 2010” video, FOX recently picked up “Hero” to open the third game of the World Series. In addition, the popular soap opera “One Life To Live” has been using “Awake & Alive” in promos for the month of November.