Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers
WITHIN TEMPTATION were honored in the "Best-Selling Artist - Netherlands" category at the
World Music Awards Sunday night (November 4) in Monte Carlo.
The
World Music Awards (founded in 1989) is an international awards show that annually honors recording artists based on their worldwide sales figures, which are provided by the
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (
IFPI).
As previously reported,
WITHIN TEMPTATION will be joined by the Dutch
Metropole Orchestra for a special concert at the Ahoy Stadium in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on February 7, 2008.
WITHIN TEMPTATION's latest album,
"The Heart of Everything", sold 7,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 106 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's first U.S. release for
Roadrunner Records,
"The Heart of Everything" also topped the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
