{"id":1746,"date":"2012-06-10T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T12:51:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-10T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T12:51:26","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Joe Bonamassa is No.1 in the UK&#8217;s Midweek Album Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Bonamassa\u2019s brand new studio album \u201cDriving Towards The Daylight\u201d is the number 1 album in today\u2019s Official UK Midweek Album Chart.<\/p>\n<p>Released in the UK by Provogue Records, this marks Joe\u2019s 13th solo album and solidifies his reputation as one of the hottest guitarists in the music business. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited about Joe\u2019s impressive rise in record sales,\u201d says Ed van Zijl, owner of Provogue Records.  \u201cJoe has worked extremely hard for the past 20 years, gradually building a massive following with the general public.  It now seems that public demand is dictating the need for a singer\/songwriter and guitarist of Joe\u2019s stature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The midweek chart position is subject to change.  The official album chart will be revealed on Sunday evening.  The album follows Bonamassa\u2019s appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, which aired on Monday May 21st. View Joe\u2019s Letterman TV debut here \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Kd4ieP.\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/Kd4ieP.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Bonamassa\u2019s brand new studio album \u201cDriving Towards The Daylight\u201d is the number 1 album in today\u2019s Official UK Midweek Album Chart. Released in the UK by Provogue Records, this marks Joe\u2019s 13th solo album and solidifies his reputation as one of the hottest guitarists in the music business. \u201cWe are very excited about Joe\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press_releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}