NIGHTWISH have sold more than 15,000 copies of their new bombastic album "Once" in Finland after only half a day - enough for the CD to be certified with gold in the band's home country! "Once" is scheduled to be released in the rest of Europe on June 7 through Nuclear Blast Records.
In other news, NIGHTWISH's current single "Nemo" received gold in Finland as well - the song remains on top of the Finish single charts for over three weeks now. Further chart positions Europe-wide are as follows:

Finland - 1
Hungary - 1
Greece - 2
Norway - 4
Germany - 6
Slovenia - 8
Sweden: 15
Switzerland - 16
Austria - 20
Netherlands - 64
France - 64

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