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Besides being #1 on the Hot 100, "You're Beautiful" remains the #1 Hot
Digital Song for the fourth consecutive week and has just been certified as
a double platinum digital single by the RIAA.

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For the second week in a
row, the single ranks at #1 on "Billboard's" Pop 100 chart and at national
Hot AC/Adult Top 40 radio.

In other Blunt news, he recently taped a performance and interview for "The
Oprah Winfrey Show," which is slated to air next Wednesday, March 8th.

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"I am proud to have the opportunity to release the music of Gentle Giant
through my own company DRT Entertainment," said Derek Shulman upon the
announcement .3 million units,
"BACK TO BEDLAM" ranks #1 on the European Top 100 Albums chart for the
seventh consecutive week (eight weeks total).

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The first
two releases scheduled are Free Hand and In A Glass House, both due in-stores
May 10. A Gentle Giant anthology and a
DVD of concert footage shot across Europe in 1974, as well as an interview
from Italian TV, are also scheduled for a December release . singles chart since Elton John reached #1 with "Candle In The
Wind" in 1997.

"BACK TO BEDLAM ," Blunt's debut album, breaks into the top five this week
on the "Billboard" 200 for the first time since its release, landing in the
#5 spot. Blunt was recently
honored with two BRIT Awards, for Best Pop Act and Best British Male Solo
Artist.

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Blunt is the first British artist to
top the U.

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The 35th anniversary
edition will contain the previously unreleased live version of "Just The
Same.

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Gentle Giant Mark 35th Anniversary With Release of Remastered Catalog Featuring Unreleased Material

Together we composed music that
still holds up with old and new fans alike. sales in excess
of one million units. "BACK TO BEDLAM"
has now gone nine times platinum in the UK, where it has sold 2. Kicking off March 13th, the eagerly
awaited itinerary is already completely SRO, with every show instantly
selling out the day that tickets were put on sale.

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In addition , the album, which was released in the U.

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Gentle Giant, formed in the U.
"You're Beautiful ," the smash single from
Custard/Atlantic recording artist James Blunt, has hit #1 on the
"Billboard " Hot 100 singles chart.

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Blunt returns to North America this month for his first full-fledged
cross-country headlining concert tour.

For more information, please visit www.

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"I was extremely fortunate to have been surrounded by
outstanding musicians and friends in the 70's.

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These new releases will uphold the
integrity of the band, and hopefully inspire new generations of musicians .

Meanwhile, Blunt continues to enjoy spectacular success in his native UK
and around the globe .

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" One of the band's most popular albums, but never before available in
the U.

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S. The album has thus far hit
#1 in 16 territories, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway ,
Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.

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S. on October
4, 2005, has been certified platinum by the RIAA for U.

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, In A Glass House (1973), will feature the bonus live track,
"Experience .9 million
units and was the biggest-selling album of 2005.

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in 1970 by brothers Derek, Ray and Phil
Shulman, have sold over 3 million albums in North America alone beginning with
their self-titled debut released in 1970. The companion video is currently in Big Ten
rotation on MTV and has been #1 on VH1, where Blunt has been a "You Oughta
Know" artist for 17 consecutive weeks.

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Free Hand, originally released in
1975, is considered Gentle Giant's most commercial album.
Enjoy what was and what is!"
The rest of 2005 will bring the re-releases of The Power and the Glory
(1974 ), Interview (1976), Giant for a Day (1978), The Missing Piece (1977) and
Playing The Fool (1977) , a double live album.

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NEW YORK, Iconic progressive rock band Gentle
Giant will mark the 35th anniversary of their formation with the release of
seven of their albums, all re-mastered and re -packaged in a special 35th
anniversary edition and containing previously unreleased material.

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S. With worldwide sales now over 7.