On 18 December 2004, the band released a song “Maybe Tomorrow is a Better Day” as a free download on their website to promote their then-upcoming debut album Signs of Life . The album was released on 19 January 2005 in Finland, followed by an iTunes release on 25 May 2005. It entered the Finnish Top 40 album chart at #1 and has been certified platinum by the Finnish IFPI . It won the Emma Award for the “Best Debut Album of the Year 2005” with the band also receiving the “Best Newcomer of the Year” award. The songs “Stay” and “Illusion and Dream” were used as promotional radio singles. Due to Kaarlonen being a former employee of benchmark -developer Futuremark , POTF were offered to have their song “Lift” included in the 2005-iteration of Futuremark’s benchmarking software 3DMark , which helped further promote the album. In 2005 POTF performed at Popkomm in Berlin.
released ‘Maybe Tomorrow is a Better Day’ as free download
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