A special marketing campaign preceded the new album’s release in August, when the art concept was featured on Google Earth as a fictional utopian island, Audioslave Nation, created in the South Pacific . Several songs from the upcoming album appeared on movie and video game soundtracks; “Wide Awake” and “Shape of Things to Come” were featured in Miami Vice , while “Revelations” was on the soundtrack of Madden NFL 07 . Revelations was released on September 5, 2006. The album entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2 and sold 142,000 copies during its first week of release. It became the band’s least commercially successful album; dropping even faster than Out of Exile , its sales were down 65 percent the following week, achieving gold certification a month later. The album showed funk, soul and R&B influences that were non-existent for the band before; Morello referred to the new sound as “Led Zeppelin meets Earth, Wind & Fire “. Additionally, several songs took a more overtly political stance than previous Audioslave releases.
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