New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The award-winning Australian vocal group,
Human Nature have become the #1 pop vocal group ever in Australia, scoring 24 platinum awards, 18 Top 40 hits and five Top 10 hits. It was their million-selling Motown tribute, Reach Out, that caught the ear of the legendary Smokey Robinson, who helped them launch their famed "Motown Show" which has played for over 5 years in Las
Vegas and now with a multi-year residency at the Venetian Sands Showroom where they have played to sold-out crowds for the past two and a half years. Smokey is the presenter of their show. Now, the quartet is taking
America by storm with their latest collaboration with HLN's
Robin Meade, one of the top cable morning news show personalities in the United States!
The group's holiday duet with Robin, "Sleigh Ride," has been gaining steady momentum through the past couple of weeks - currently sitting at #29 on the AC
Radio Airplay Chart and holding a #16 position on the Holiday
Music Radio Airplay Chart. The single has continued to get more airplay and station ads every week - just the latest in a quickly-growing list of successes for the group, which is comprised of brothers Andrew and Mike Tierney, Phil Burton and Toby Allen from Sydney, Australia.
"Like everyone, the holidays are a special time of year for us and we want to share that feeling," said Human Nature's Andrew Tierney. "We had so much fun recording our Christmas album that we thought we should share that fun for the Holidays. That's what the new show is all about: bringing the spirit of the season to you."
Their collaboration with
Robin - who is recognized as one of the top 20 most popular television news personalities in the broadcast news industry - came about as a result of the vocal group wanting to add a voice to their new Christmas Album release who could be described as an "America's Sweetheart" with a warm and vibrant personality and charisma and
Robin made perfect sense. Of course, the host of HLN's Morning Express with
Robin Meade is also a respected singer-songwriter in her own right, with a pair of albums charting on the Billboard Country Albums chart in 2011's
Brand New Day and 2013's Count On Me.
"After 20 years of helming the morning news, it still comes as a surprise to many people that I've been a vocalist longer than that! I relish this chance to join
Human Nature for their Christmas show," said Meade. "If the experience is anything like our 'Sleigh Ride' duet on their new album, the energy for the audience is going to be combustible! Honored, and pumped!"
Robin is also appearing with the group during their new live stage show, "Christmas, Motown and More." The limited-engagement Human Nature's "Christmas, Motown, and More" will perform for eleven days beginning Friday, Dec. 12 with a special 1 p.m. matinee show on Christmas Eve. at the Sands Showroom at The Venetian Las Vegas.
With Christmas just around the corner, these four superlative vocalists are making their list and checking it twice for one of their most spirited album releases ever. Having become a successful pop group who honed their craft with yuletide tunes, it's fitting they've finally recorded their first Christmas album.
Human Nature - The Christmas Album is also accompanied by a portfolio of 6 music videos including an extraordinary clay animation video of "
White Christmas" which captures Human Nature's sentiment of the season with their own interpretation of the story. Their Christmas Album is available both as digital download and CD. iTunes | Amazon
About Human Nature
Brothers Andrew and Michael Tierney along with high-school friends Toby Allen and Phil Burton formed
Human Nature as teenagers while in school. Signing with Sony
Music Australia in 1995 the group has released ten albums, five of which hit number one in Australia. The group achieved 24 platinum awards, 17 top 40 hits and five top 10 hits worldwide and sold over two million albums in Australia alone. Following their PBS TV special, the group toured nationally in the U.S. in 2012 and scored a Number 1 position on the Heatseekers/New Artist chart with the release of their first U.S. album, The Motown Record, and its companion DVD
Human Nature Sings Motown. After an appearance on ABC's hit television show Dancing With The Stars in April 2012, The Motown Record shot up to the No. 1 spot on Amazon's Movers and Shakers, as well as Top 40 on both the Amazon and iTunes sales chart. Their most recent release, "Human Nature: The Christmas Album" reached Platinum status in Australia in December 2013 and peaked at #4 on the Australian charts. "The Christmas Album" became the 3rd most successful Australian album in all of 2013. In 2012,
Human Nature was voted #1 Vocal Group in Las Vegas. They have signed a new 5-album deal with Sony
Music through their HN Entertainment production company. The group performs in
Smokey Robinson Presents Human Nature: The Motown Show 5 nights a week at The Venetian Las Vegas.
About
Robin Meade
Robin Meade is the longtime host of "Morning Express with
Robin Meade" (HLN), a New York Times Bestselling author and a singer-songwriter with 2 music albums. She's jumped out of a perfectly good plane with President
George HW Bush, hosted "Ask Oprah's All Stars" at the mogul's request, and belted the anthem to millions of Nascar & NFL fans. She's performed with Kenny Chesney,
Darius Rucker, Richard Marx,
David Foster &
The Tenors among others. She wrote 14 of the songs on her debut & follow-up albums "
Brand New Day" & "
Count On Me", while her New York Times Best Selling book, "Morning Sunshine!" chronicled her rise over crippling panic attacks. Robin's quick wit lands her visits to the "Steve
Harvey Show", "Wendy Williams" & "
Extra" while her passion-filled vocals earn her a standing ovation on stages like the Grand Ole Opry.
