I Love You So F***ing Much scores global chart success
Grammy and Brit-nominated, diamond-selling British band Glass Animals’ critically acclaimed fourth studio album, I Love You So F***ing Much, debuts in the Top 5 across six Billboard Album Charts with over 16 million streams in its first week of release. The album topped the Billboard Indie Store Album Sales chart, placed second on the Billboard Vinyl Albums chart, third on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums charts, fourth on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Album Sales charts, and 11th on the Billboard 200 chart.
Meanwhile, globally, I Love You So F***ing Much debuted in the Top 5 on the Official UK and Australia Albums Charts and Top 10 on the Official New Zealand Album chart, with Glass Animals also seeing their highest chart debut positions to date in numerous countries around the world, including Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Austria. Singer, songwriter, producer, and frontman Dave Bayley—who fully wrote and produced the album himself—also sat down with Anthony Mason on CBS Mornings and Zach Sang on Zach Sang Show to deep-dive into the new album, its creation process, and come to terms with the global success of 2020’s Dreamland and their breakthrough, RIAA diamond certified hit “Heat Waves,” which is now the 11th most-streamed song in Spotify’s history.
Having performed a string of intimate, underplay pop-up shows for fans across the world leading up to the album’s release, Glass Animals begins their mammoth North American leg of their Tour Of Earth next week on August 7th in Charlotte, NC, playing arenas and amphitheaters to tens of thousands of fans across the country this summer, including sold-out dates at Madison Square Garden on August 13th and The Kia Forum on September 14th. The trek continues in the UK, Europe, and Australia later this year, with the band playing London’s O2 and two nights at Sydney’s Opera House Forecourt in November.
Painting ten portraits of love in all its messy forms, I Love You So F***ing Much is the most personal record that Bayley has ever written. From the existential to the intimate, from the first love we witness around us as children, to romance, hate, and heartbreak—each song is dedicated to a different side of love. From a tiny teardrop in an airlock to a vast galaxy, I Love You So F***ing Much is an expansive record with retro-futuristic production that travels in and out of the “shapelessness of love.” “Show Pony,” the album’s opening track, is a lucid tale of a relationship from start to finish. Bayley shares, “Our first blueprints of love are the relationships we see and experience growing up. They aren’t always perfect, but they completely shape our understanding of love. That’s why I wanted ‘Show Pony’ to open the album. It throws you in at the deep end, but that’s life.”
