Paramore have scored their very first No. 1 album after their new self-titled album debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart this week.The album beat out the competition to the top of the charts after selling 106,422 copies its first week of release according to numbers from SoundScan.
The band not only topped the charts here at home in American but also claimed the No. 1 spot in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
The band will be promoting the new album with a world tour that will kick off next week in Houston, Tx and will take the band across North America for a series of sold out shows in late April and May.
In June the band will head across the pond to launch a summer tour of Europe. That trek will begin on June 5th with an appearance at the Impact Festival in Warsaw.
Paramore will play a number of major music festivals in Europe as well as some stand alone dates before they launch a Latin America tour in July.
APRIL
25 Houston, TX Bayou Music Theatre � SOLD OUT
27 Frisco, TX 101.1 The Edge's EDGEFEST
29 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre
MAY
1 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre � SOLD OUT
3 Las Vegas, NV The Joint
4 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre � SOLD OUT
6 Salt Lake City, UT The Great Saltair
7 Denver, CO The Fillmore
9 Chicago, IL The Chicago Theatre � SOLD OUT
10 Detroit, MI The Fillmore � SOLD OUT
12 Camden, NJ Radio 104.5's WRFF Festival
13 Toronto, ON Sound Academy � SOLD OUT
15 Boston, MA House of Blues � SOLD OUT
16 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom � SOLD OUT
18 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore � SOLD OUT
20 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore � SOLD OUT
21 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle � SOLD OUT
JUNE
5 Warsaw, PL Impact Festival
7 Nurburg, DE Rock Am Ring
8 Nuremburg, DE Rock Im Park
10 Milan, IT Ippodromo Del Galoppo
11 Zurich, CH Komplex
13 Luxembourg, LU Rockhal
14 Landgraaf, NL Pinkpop Festival
16 Nickelsdorf, AT Nova Rock
17 Budapest, HU Budapest Park
19 Prague, CZ Lucerna
21 Paris, FR Stade de France � SOLD OUT
22 Hamburg, DE Docks
24 Copenhagen, DK Vega
25 Oslo, NO Sentrum Scene
27 Borlange, SW Peace & Love Festival
29 Helsinki, FI Rock The Beach Festival
30 Moscow, RU Park Live Festival
JULY
15 Mexico City, MX Palacio de Los Deportes
18 Santiago, CL Movistar Arena
20 Buenos Aires, AG Malvinas
22 Asuncion, PY Yacht Golf Club
25 Rio de Janiero, BR HSBC Arena
26 Belo Horizonte, BR Arena Expominas
28 Brasilia, BR Arena Iguatemi
30, 31 S�o Paulo, BR Espa�o das Am�ricas
AUGUST
2 Curitiba, BR Master Hall
4 Porto Alegre, BR Pepsi On Stage