Grammy-nominated band Panic! At The Disco yesterday released their anxiously awaited sixth studio album Pray For The Wicked via Fueled By Ramen/DCD2 Records. The band also released a new music video for the track “Hey Look Ma, I Made It”. Produced by Jake Sinclair, Pray For The Wicked was announced in March alongside an action-packed music video for the album’s lead single “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” after a week of cryptic clues that set the internet a buzz. Since then P!ATD has been a mainstay on the American TV airwaves with explosive performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Ellen Degeneres Show, and NBC’s The Voice.
Panic! will make their next TV appearance on Friday, June 29th on Today as part of their Citi Summer Concert Series which airs from 7-9AM EST/PST (check local listings). Panic! At The Disco is currently featured on the cover of Alternative Press Magazine and “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” is currently #1 on Billboard’s Top Alternative Songs chart.
Ahead of the release of Pray for the Wicked, P!ATD treated fans to an early listen of tracks “(Fuck A) Silver Lining,” “High Hopes” and “King Of The Clouds.”
Next month, Panic! At The Disco will celebrate the album’s release with the first leg of their Pray For The Wicked Tour, which has sold out multiple venues including Madison Square Garden in New York City and STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. Produced by AEG presents, the tour’s first leg will kick off on July 11, 2018, in Minneapolis, MN, and will visit arenas throughout the summer before concluding in the band’s hometown of Las Vegas on August 18, 2018. A R I Z O N A and Hayley Kiyokoprovide support. Tickets for the leg one are on sale now at the bottom of this page.
@PanicAtTheDisco [rotatingtweets screen_name=’PanicAtTheDisco’]This fall, Panic! At The Disco will embark on an international run of dates visiting Australia, Japan, New Zealand, The Philippines, and Mexico in October. In January, the band will return to the road in North America for the second leg of the Pray For The Wicked Tour. The 28-city leg, which kicks off on January 10, 2019, in Buffalo, NY, and wraps on February 20, 2019, in Sacramento, CA, will feature support from Two Feet. Tickets for the tour’s second leg will be available to the public beginning today at 12:00 p.m. local time at PanicAtTheDisco.com. A complete list of upcoming live dates and ticket information can be found below.
Pray For The Wicked follows Panic! At The Disco’s critically acclaimed fifth album, Death Of A Bachelor, which was released on January 15, 2016, via Fueled By Ramen/DCD2 Records. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart and was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2017 GRAMMY® Awards. The RIAA platinum-selling release was the highest selling rock album and fourth-highest-selling album released in 2016, according to Nielsen Soundscan. The album has also spawned RIAA certified gold tracks “Hallelujah,” “LA Devotee,” “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time” and platinum “Victorious,” “Death Of A Bachelor,” and “Emperor’s New Clothes.” Most recently, frontman Brendon Urie starred as Charlie Price in the critically acclaimed, Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Kinky Boots.
“Might be Panic!’s best album yet.”
– The Independent“One of the year’s best albums.”
– GQ“Party-ready tracks with horn sections and shimmering vocals, the soundtrack to both your night on the town and your existential hangover in the morning.”
– Entertainment Weekly
About Panic! At The Disco
Award-winning internationally acclaimed rock band Panic! At The Disco released their highly anticipated sixth studio album Pray For The Wicked on June 22, 2018, via Fueled By Ramen/DCD2. The album follows 2016’s Death Of A Bachelor, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2017 GRAMMY® Awards.
The RIAA platinum-selling release was the highest selling rock album and fourth-highest-selling album released in 2016, according to Nielsen Soundscan. Panic! At The Disco’s Gold-certified fourth studio album, Too Weird To Live, Too Rare to Die!, was released in October 2013, and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, marking their second album to do so.
The band’s previous albums include 2005’s double-platinum A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, 2008’s Gold-certified Pretty. Odd., which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and Vices & Virtues, which debuted at No. 7. Panic! At The Disco have been nominated for multiple awards, including a GRAMMY, Teen Choice Award, Alternative Press Music Award, Kerrang! Award, and MTV Video Music Awards.
At the MTV VMAs in 2006, they won the highly coveted Video of the Year trophy for the video for their smash “I Write Sins Not Tragedies.” More recently, frontman Brendon Urie starred as Charlie Price in the critically acclaimed Broadway hit Kinky Boots.