Swan Songs (Hollywood Undead album)
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Swan Songs is the debut album by Hollywood Undead
Hollywood Undead
Hollywood Undead is an American rap rock band from Los Angeles, California. They released their debut album, Swan Songs, on September 2, 2008, and their live CD/DVD Desperate Measures, on November 10, 2009. Their second studio album, American Tragedy, was released April 5, 2011...

, released through Octone Records. The album was released on September 2, 2008. "Everywhere I Go" was the first single to be released, it was a web single and was available for download only on iTunes
ITunes
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. The band released four music videos for four songs on the album, "No.5", "Undead
Undead (song)
"Undead" is a song by American rap rock band Hollywood Undead, the first track and third single from their debut full-length album, Swan Songs.-Reception:...

", "Young
Young (Hollywood Undead song)
"Young" is a song by American rock band Hollywood Undead. It is the fourth single off their full-length debut album, Swan Songs, and is the sixth track on that album...

", and "Everywhere I Go" When purchased through Amazon.com
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 and at some other retailers, the album includes a bonus track and an option to unlock music videos. Swan Songs is the only studio album to feature vocalist Deuce
Deuce (singer)
Aron Erlichman , better known by his stage name Deuce, is an American singer, rapper, record producer, and songwriter. Brought to fame as one of the co-founders and lead vocalist of rap rock band Hollywood Undead, Deuce has since branched into solo work and is preparing to release his label debut...

, excluding the half-studio album Desperate Measures
Desperate Measures (Hollywood Undead album)
-Disc Two :Live at the Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Marquee Theater, Tempe, Arizona-Chart positions:-Personnel:Hollywood Undead*Charlie Scene - vocals, lead guitar*Da Kurlzz – drums, percussion, screams, vocals Deuce- Lead vocals...

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Overview

Swan Songs was supposed to be released on the band's original label, MySpace Records
MySpace Records
Myspace Records is a record label founded in 2005 to sign artists who appear on the social networking site MySpace. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of MySpace and parent News Corporation, operating as a joint-venture between MySpace and Interscope Records...

 in 2007, however it was postponed by the record label when they requested to have some of the songs removed and others censored. The band declined and switched labels to Octone which wouldn't require them to censor their songs. The album peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

 and sold 41,000 copies on its debut week. Swan Songs was released by Polydor Records
Polydor Records
Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...

 on May 18, 2009 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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 with two bonus tracks. After 64 weeks, the album fell off of the Billboard
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Top 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

, but returned four weeks later at #154. Swan Songs ended up spending 76 weeks in total on the Billboard 200 . In December 2009, it was certified gold by the RIAA. The album has sold over 800,000 copies, and is approaching the Platinum sales mark.

The song "Undead" is featured in the video game Madden NFL 09
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. The song "Young" is featured as downloadable content
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 for Rock Band 2
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According to an e-mail sent out to fans from the official website April 4, 2011, the album has been re-released on iTunes as a Collector's Edition. This features all the tracks available on the original Swan Songs plus Swan Songs B-Sides EP
Swan Songs B-Sides EP
Swan Songs B-Sides EP is an EP by Hollywood Undead, that was released on June 23, 2009, and consists of 4 b-side songs that were recorded during the sessions of the album Swan Songs but didn't make the album....

, Swan Songs Rarities EP
Swan Songs Rarities EP
Swan Songs: Rarities - EP is an online purchase only EP, that was released on April 20, 2010, and consists of three remastered Hollywood Undead songs that were released on Myspace before the release of the band's first studio album Swan Songs...

, and the Black Dahlia Remixes
Black Dahlia Remixes
Black Dahlia Remixes is an EP by American rock band Hollywood Undead. It was released on September 13, 2010 and consists of three remixes of the track, "Black Dahlia", from their 2008 debut, Swan Songs.-Track listing:-Personnel:Hollywood Undead...

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Critical

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  • Rock Sound
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Track listing

  • *off of Swan Songs B-Sides EP
    Swan Songs B-Sides EP
    Swan Songs B-Sides EP is an EP by Hollywood Undead, that was released on June 23, 2009, and consists of 4 b-side songs that were recorded during the sessions of the album Swan Songs but didn't make the album....

  • off of Swan Songs Rarities EP
    Swan Songs Rarities EP
    Swan Songs: Rarities - EP is an online purchase only EP, that was released on April 20, 2010, and consists of three remastered Hollywood Undead songs that were released on Myspace before the release of the band's first studio album Swan Songs...

  • §off of Black Dahlia Remixes
    Black Dahlia Remixes
    Black Dahlia Remixes is an EP by American rock band Hollywood Undead. It was released on September 13, 2010 and consists of three remixes of the track, "Black Dahlia", from their 2008 debut, Swan Songs.-Track listing:-Personnel:Hollywood Undead...


Musicians

Hollywood Undead
  • Charlie Scene - vocals
    Rapping
    Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

    , lead guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

    , backing vocals
  • Da Kurlzz – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

    , screams
    Screaming (music)
    Screaming is a vocal technique that is most popular in subgenres of heavy metal, punk and hard rock, including metalcore, deathcore, post-hardcore, groove metal, black metal, and grindcore...

  • Deuce - clean vocals
  • Funny Man – vocals
    Rapping
    Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

  • J-Dog – vocals
    Rapping
    Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

    , rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

    , keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , synthesizers, audio engineering
    Audio engineering
    An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

    , screams
    Screaming (music)
    Screaming is a vocal technique that is most popular in subgenres of heavy metal, punk and hard rock, including metalcore, deathcore, post-hardcore, groove metal, black metal, and grindcore...

    ,
  • Johnny 3 Tears – vocals
    Rapping
    Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...


Production

  • Deuce
    Deuce (singer)
    Aron Erlichman , better known by his stage name Deuce, is an American singer, rapper, record producer, and songwriter. Brought to fame as one of the co-founders and lead vocalist of rap rock band Hollywood Undead, Deuce has since branched into solo work and is preparing to release his label debut...

     - production
  • Don Gilmore - production
  • Danny Lohner
    Danny Lohner
    Daniel Patrick "Danny" Lohner , frequently known as Renholdër, is an American rock musician who plays bass guitar, electric guitar, and keyboards. He worked with Trent Reznor on numerous occasions, both with Nine Inch Nails and on the now defunct Tapeworm project...

     - engineering
    Audio engineering
    An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

    , production
  • Billy Howerdel
    Billy Howerdel
    Billy Howerdel is the founding member, guitarist, songwriter, and producer for the bands A Perfect Circle and Ashes Divide. He has recorded three acclaimed studio albums with the former, and in 2008, Ashes Divide released their debut album, Keep Telling Myself It's Alright.-Early life:Howerdel was...

     - engineering
  • Mark Kiczula - assistant
  • Ben Grosse
    Ben Grosse
    Ben Grosse is an American record producer and mixer, who has worked on numerous albums. He currently works with a staff at his own studio, The Mix Room, in Burbank, California...

     - mixing
    Audio mixing (recorded music)
    In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...


  • Jonas Åkerlund
    Jonas Åkerlund
    Jonas Åkerlund is a Swedish film and music video director, and drummer. He is best known for directing music videos, which are often mock forms of movie trailers and short films...

     - art direction
    Art director
    The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....

    , photography
    Photography
    Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

  • Jason Goad - illustrations
  • Fox Phelps - assistant


Weekly charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Weeks on
chart
UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
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35 21
US Top Alternative Albums] 1 55
US Top Digital Albums 2 31
US Top Hard Rock Albums 1 56
US Top Rock Albums 1 42

Chart (2011) Peak
position
Weeks on
chart
US Top Catalog Albums 8 11

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog Ref
United States
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September 2, 2008 A&M/Octone
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CD, Digital download
Music download
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001133102
CD with Bonus Tracks 001199002
Japan
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May 6, 2009 CD, Digital download B001133102
European Union
European Union
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May 18, 2009 Polydor Group
Polydor Records
Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...

B002436WEE
Germany
Germany
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July 31, 2009 A&M/Octone
European Union December 1, 2009 Polydor Group Vinyl B002M81UA2
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