Snow Patrol release their new single

Snow Patrol release their new single The Planets Bend Between Us through Fiction/Polydor on 25th May 2009.

The song is taken from their fifth studio album, A Hundred Million Suns, which has already sold over 600,000 copies in the UK and over 1.5 million worldwide. Currently on a sell out world tour, the band recently finished an outstanding sold-out 18-date UK arena tour where they played to over 230,000 people, including three nights at London's O2 Arena.

Snow Patrol are one of the biggest selling UK bands this decade and A Hundred Million Suns follows up the 2006 Number One, seven times platinum phenomenon Eyes Open which sold an incredible 2.1 million copies in the UK and over 1 million in the USA. Eyes Open achieved platinum awards across the world from the US and Canada to Germany, Australia and beyond, selling over 4.5 million copies in total. The single Chasing Cars has just received its 100,000th UK radio play and its 2 millionth download in the US. Eyes Open was the UK's biggest selling album of 2006.

Snow Patrol are among an elite group of UK artists to have achieved consecutive million selling albums – Eyes Open followed up 2003's Final Straw which sold 1.6 million copies, achieving five times platinum status.

Snow Patrol play the following UK & Irish Dates this Summer:

9th May Radio 1 Big Weekend, Swindon
10th July Oxegen Festival, Dublin
12th July T in the Park, Kinross
22nd August V Festival, Weston Staffordshire
23rd August V Festival, Chelmsford

The Planets Bend Between Us will be released on 25 May and available on CD and 7" via Fiction/Polydor."