Davies garnered a Best Actress nomination in a Musical Tony Award for her role of Joplin. The Janis Joplin Estate, in partnership with Community, invites fans to communicate via text on the new dedicated number: 41.ĭuring January 2019, the Broadway bio-musical, A Night With Janis Joplin, which ran in the 2013-2014 season, featuring the original production starring Mary Bridget Davies, was available on theatrical streaming platforms. Each chapter of Pearl Comix is inspired by one of the songs in the Joplin canon and illustrated by women artists from around the world. The Janis Joplin Estate have partnered with Z2 Comics for the release of Pearl Comix, a graphic novel written by Leah Moore. Mastered from the Original Master Tapes with Mobile Fidelity's One-Step process, this edition is pressed at RTI on MoFi SuperVinyl for definitive sound quality and comes packaged with foil-stamped jackets.īaby Janis: A Book about Nouns will be released by Running Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group on April 20, is due. In July 2021, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, in association with Columbia/Legacy, will release a limited edition 50th Anniversary Edition of Pearl as an UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set. Scheduled for April 2021, Vinyl Me, Please, the 'best damn record club out there,' in association with Columbia/Legacy, will release a collectible 50th anniversary limited edition of Pearl pressed on white 'Pearl' Color 180 Gram Vinyl. More than 31 million Janis Joplin albums have been sold worldwide.

Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits was RIAA certified 9x Platinum on Novemwhile 'Piece of My Heart' (Janis' breakout single from Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills, one of 1968's top-selling albums) has recently been certified RIAA Platinum. Pearl has been certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA with Janis Joplin's overall album catalog-including greatest hits compilations-accounting for 17 Platinum and 3 Gold certifications (approximately 18.5 million records) in the United States. Columbia/Legacy will release a new official video for 'Me & Bobby McGee' later this year. Mercedes-Benz, the automobile manufacturer, used the track in its 2020 holiday advertising campaign. Digital single editions of both recordings have been recently certified by the RIAA: 'Me and Bobby McGee' achieving Gold & Platinum status with 'Mercedes Benz' earning Gold. 1 on the Billboard 200, a position it held for nine weeks, Pearl showcased some of Janis's most familiar and best-loved performances including her cover of Kris Kristofferson's 'Me and Bobby McGee' and the off-the-cuff a cappella 'Mercedes Benz,' the last song she ever recorded. Janis Joplin: Days & Summers - Scrapbook 1966-68 is available to preorder at: Peaking at No. Written by the people who really knew Janis and those inspired by her, the book's in-depth text provides a fascinating, new account of the singer's extraordinary life. Featured alongside are previously unpublished items from her personal archive, including letters she wrote home to her family and a preceding scrapbook from her senior high school years, 1956-59. Genesis Publications and the Janis Joplin Estate announced the upcoming publication of a new limited edition book, Janis Joplin: Days & Summers - Scrapbook 1966-6 8. During her career, Janis Joplin created a personal record of her meteoric rise to fame and the flowering of Sixties counterculture. Throughout it all, she collected posters, souvenirs, press clippings, photographs and records, and annotated them with her comments. In celebration of Pearl, will be releasing an exclusive capsule collection which includes a fine art collaboration with the estate of Barry Feinstein, the acclaimed celebrity photographer who lensed the iconic Pearl album cover further details to be announced soon. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland is curating a special exhibit devoted to Janis, Pearl and more, scheduled to open May 21, 2021. Originally released on January 11, 1971-three months after Joplin's passing on October 4, 1970, and eight days before what would have been her 28th birthday on January 19- Pearl debuted Janis' last completed studio recordings as well as intimations of what the influential American country-soul-blues-rock singer was capable of delivering. Sony Music Entertainment and the Janis Joplin Estate are commemorating the 50th anniversary of Janis Joplin's Pearl, her final studio album.

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