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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Sugarland Will Perform on American Music Awards - Airs Sunday, November 18, 8pm-11pm ET on ABC

Sugarland Will Perform on American Music Awards - Airs Sunday, November 18, 8pm-11pm ET on ABC

"Stay" Secures #1 iTunes Country Song Position & Creates YouTube, Myspace & Homepage Online Explosion

ENJOY THE RIDE Sales Up 112%

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- After winning the "Vocal Duo of the Year" trophy at the recent Country Music Association (CMA) awards, creating the upset of the night; Sugarland is sure to make some more noise when they perform at the American Music Awards, which airs this Sunday, November 18, 8pm-11pm Eastern Time on ABC.

Within less than 48 hours after their emotional CMA performance, which received a standing ovation, online activity for all things Sugarland began surging. Fans bombarded YouTube with over 100,000 streams of their video for current single "Stay", which brings the grand total of overall views to over one million. Additionally, traffic to www.sugarlandmusic.com increased six- fold and their Myspace page accepted 5,000 new friend requests and received 50,000 profile visits and audio streams. "Stay" Myspace streams now total 1.25 million.

"Stay" is also the #1 country song at iTunes, all of which contributes to Enjoy The Ride album sales being up 112%.

Sugarland continues their "CMT ON TOUR 2007: SUGARLAND CHANGE" headlining tour tonight in New York City at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square. For more information on remaining tour stops, log on to www.sugarlandmusic.com and click the "Tour" tab.

Sugarland is best known for hits "Baby Girl", "Something More", "Want To" and "Settlin'" from the platinum-selling TWICE THE SPEED OF LIFE and multi- platinum selling ENJOY THE RIDE. The Academy of Country Music named them "New Duo/Group of the Year", The American Music Awards recognized them as "Breakthrough Favorite New Artist", Country Music Television awarded them "Collaborative Video of the Year" and "Duo Video of the Year", Jennifer Nettles received a Grammy for "Best Country Collaboration with Vocals" and the Country Music Association recently presented them "Vocal Duo of the Year".

   For more information on Sugarland, contact   Jason Owen at 615.524.7563 or jason.owen@umusic.com or   Amber Williams at 615.524.7516 or amber.williams@umusic.com  

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Source: Mercury Nashville

CONTACT: Jason Owen, +1-615-524-7563, jason.owen@umusic.com, Amber
Williams, +1-615-524-7516, amber.williams@umusic.com

Web site: http://www.sugarlandmusic.com/
http://www.mercurynashville.com/


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