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TWENTY ØNE PILØTS ANNOUNCE NEW HEADLINE “BANDITØ TOUR” DATE SALT LAKE CITY, UT OCTOBER 28TH VIVINT SMART HOME ARENA

TRENCH AVAILABLE AT ALL DSPS AND WWW.TWENTYONEPILOTS.COM ​ ​ ​ ​ August 15th, 2019 – have announced a new date in SALT LAKE CITY on their “Banditø Tour” due to overwhelming demand. The “Banditø Tour,” which follows this summer’s sold-out arena run, is set to kickoff October 9th at Tampa, FL’s Amalie Arena and will continue through a performance at ​ th Tulsa, OK’s BOK Center on November 9 .​ To ensure tickets get into the hands of fans and not scalpers ​ or bots, the tour has partnered with Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan platform. Fans can register now through August 18th at 10pm MT at https://verifiedfan.ticketmaster.com/twentyonepilotsSLC. ​ ​ Registered fans who receive a code will have access to purchase tickets before the general public starting on Tues 8/20 at 10am – Thurs 8/22 at 10pm MT. All remaining tickets for this show will be released to the public at 10am MT on Friday, August 23rd. For complete details and ticket availability on Twenty One Pilots’ “Banditø Tour,” visit www.twentyonepilots.com/banditotour. ​ ​

Furthermore, Twenty One Pilots have shared “Cut My Lip (40.6782°N, 73.9442° W),” the second stripped ​ ​ back performance from the ’s new “Løcatiøn Sessiøns.” Recorded by , “Cut My Lip (40.6782°N, 73.9442° W)” follows the series’ debut session “Chlorine (19.4326° N, 99.1332° W),” and is ​ ​ ​ accompanied by an official visualizer streaming now on the band’s official YouTube channel. ​ ​

Earlier this year, the Twenty One Pilots shared an official for “Chlorine,” which is directed by ​ ​ longtime collaborator Reel Bear Media and streaming now on the band’s YouTube channel. “Chlorine” is ​ ​ featured on Twenty One Pilots’ acclaimed LP TRENCH, which made a stunning global impact upon ​ ​ release this past October. The RIAA gold certified collection earned the GRAMMY® Award winning duo of Tyler Joseph and their biggest sales week ever in the U.S., with 175,000 units sold in its first ​ week. An extraordinary achievement for the Columbus, OH band who moved 135,000 copies of TRENCH ​ in pure sales without the aid of a ticket / album bundle for their worldwide headline “Banditø ​ Tour.” TRENCH — with over 52 Million on-demand audio streams its first week — also marked the ​ ​ ​ largest streaming week (debut or otherwise) in the U.S. for a rock album. A true global phenomenon ​ amassing 110 Million streams worldwide in its first week, TRENCH earned Twenty One Pilots Top 5 chart ​ ​ debuts around the globe including the U.S., U.K., Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, , and Sweden, with #1 debuts in , New Zealand, and The Netherlands. TRENCH ​ is available worldwide at all DSPs and www.twentyonepilots.com. ​ ​ ​ ​

TRENCH is highlighted by the #1 Alternative smash “Jumpsuit,” which became the decade’s fastest rising ​ ​ ​ ​ song to reach #1 on Billboard’s “Alternative Songs” chart, and also earned the duo their fourth ​ ​ GRAMMY® nomination (Best Rock Song). TRENCH also features album standouts “,” ​ ​ ​ “Levitate,” and “My Blood,” which is accompanied by a Tim Mattia directed music videos streaming now ​ ​ ​ ​ on the band’s official YouTube channel and all other providers. ​ ​

Twenty One Pilots’ TRENCH follows the Twenty One Pilots’ global breakout , which made a ​ ​ ​ ​ stunning chart debut upon its initial release, entering the SoundScan/Billboard 200 at #1. The album also ​ achieved a milestone unrivaled in the digital era, becoming the first album in which every individual song on the album certified Gold, Platinum or multi-Platinum by the RIAA.

BLURRYFACE spawned a series of hit singles, beginning with the 2x RIAA platinum certified “Tear In My ​ Heart” and followed by the #1 sensations, “Ride” (5x platinum certified) and the 7x platinum certified, ​ ​ ​ GRAMMY® Award-winning “.” The latter track – which reached #2 on Billboard’s “Hot 100” ​ ​ ​ ​ – spent three months at #1 at while also topping the charts at CHR/Top 40 and Hot AC. “Stressed Out” was a worldwide breakthrough for Twenty One Pilots, earning gold, platinum, and multi-platinum certifications in countries spanning Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, and the . The “Stressed Out” companion video was an equivalent success, now boasting over 1.8 billion views at ​ YouTube alone. ​

BLURRYFACE was then followed by still another world-conquering hit single, “Heathens,” featured on ’ blockbuster SUICIDE SQUAD: THE ALBUM. The 6x RIAA platinum certified single – ​ ​ which received three GRAMMY® Award nominations including “Best Rock Performance” (Tyler Joseph, ) – spent four consecutive weeks at #2 on the “Hot 100” while also topping Billboard’s “Hot ​ ​ Rock Songs” for a record-shattering 28 consecutive weeks and counting. The unprecedented one-two punch of “Ride” and “Heathens” made Billboard history, establishing Twenty One Pilots as only the third ​ rock act with simultaneous top 5 “Hot 100” singles in the chart's 58-year history, following only and . In addition, the “Heathens” companion video received the 2016 MTV Video Music Award for “Best Rock Video” and has now earned more than 1.2 billion individual views via YouTube alone. ​

TWENTY ØNE PILØTS “BANDITØ TOUR”

FOR MORE INFO AND TICKETS VISIT: www.twentyonepilots.com/banditotour

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For more information: Ross Anderson 212-707-3066 [email protected]

Sarah Goldstein 212-707-2146 [email protected]