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The band's new album, entitled Songs from the Sparkle Lounge, was released worldwide on April 28, 2008 and on April 30, 2008 in Japan. The album debuted at #5 on The Billboard 200 in America. The first single is entitled "Nine Lives" and features country singer Tim McGraw, who co-wrote the song with Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, and Rick Savage.
Although greeted with generally positive reviews, X quickly disappeared from the charts, ultimately becoming Def Leppard's least successful release. However, the accompanying tour played to Def Leppard's strongest audiences since Adrenalize.
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As a testament to Def Leppard's popularity at the time, a US Gallup poll in 1984 saw Def Leppard voted as favourite rock band over peers such as the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, and Journey. However, this popularity was not matched in their native England, a fact that greatly bothered them.
Soon afterward they adopted a name proposed by Elliott, "Deaf Leopard." At Kenning's suggestion, the spelling was slightly modified in order to make the name seem less like that of a punk band and perhaps also as an indirect homage to Led Zeppelin.