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Super
Super - cover artwork
13th studio album
release date: 1st April 2016
chart: UK #3; US #58
length: 46:33
label: x2
producer: Stuart Price

Pet Shop Boys will release their brand new studio album, 'Super', on April 1st. Produced and mixed by Stuart Price in Los Angeles, it features 12 new Tennant/Lowe compositions including the lead single, 'The Pop Kids’.
The album's release was announced on the band's website and social media pages on 21 January 2016, and was made available for pre-order via the iTunes Store on the same day. Those who pre-ordered Super received an instant download of the album's first track, "Inner Sanctum". Additionally, the band announced a four-performance residency at the Royal Opera House, scheduled for July 2016. The album's opening track, "Happiness", was released as a second teaser track on 23 March 2016. The video for "Twenty-something" was released on 10 May 2016.
To mark the release of the Super album on April 1st, a special pop-up store was open in London. Thee Super Store was located in Boxpark Shoreditch, Unit 26, Braithwaite Street, E1 6GY. The Super Store was selling a range of new Pet Shop Boys merchandise, including tee-shirts in five different designs, iPhone cases, a signed screen print (edition of 100), badges, and signed Super CDs and vinyl. There were also listening stations with B&O Play headphones so visitors can listen to the album. The shop was open from Friday April 1st to April 3rd, 2013.
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    tracklist
    1. Happiness
    2. The Pop Kids
    3. Twenty-something
    4. Groovy
    5. The dictator decides
    6. Pazzo!
    7. Inner sanctum
    8. Undertow
    9. Sad robot world
    10. Say it to me
    11. Burn
    12. Into thin air
    releases
    DL: 2016 UK
    (x2; x20008DL1) [wav,mp3,aac]
    CD: 2016 DE
    (X2;X20008CD1)
    LP: 2016 DE
    (X2;X20008VL1)
    CD-R: 2015 UK
    (x2; x20008CD1-P) [promo for company & media staff; named/watermarked]
    DLOAD: 2016 UK
    (x2; n/a) [Feb; promo stream for company & media staff; watermarked]
    LP: 2016 UK
    (x2; n/a) [w/l promo]
    CD: 2016 AU
    (x2; x20008CD1/5-0604-5-49411-3 2)
    CD: 2016 AR
    (x2; x20008CD1/8-898-5-31877-2 0)
    CD-R: 2016 US
    (x2; ??) [promo]
    CD: 2016 US
    (x2; x20008CD1/5-0604-5-49411-3 2)
    CD: 2016 MX
    (x2; x20008CD1/8-898-5-31877-2 0)
    CD: 2016 BR
    (x2; x20008CD1/5494113 2)
    CD: 2016 JP
    (Sony Records Int'l; SICX-41) [promo]
    CD: 2016 JP
    (Sony Records Int'l; SICX-41) [w/OBI]
    CD: 2016 HK
    (Love Da Records; LOVECD452) [HongKong]
    CD: 2016 SK
    (Leaplay Music; Leap134) ["South Korea"]
    CD: 2016 RU
    (Soyuz Music; SZCD 6623-16) [Russia]