Sentence 1: Hard Candy is the fourth studio album by Counting Crows , published in the United States on June 7 , 2002 and the following day in the United Kingdom .
Sentence 2: Hard Candy is the fourth studio album by Counting Crows , released in the United States on June 7 , 2002 and the following day in the United Kingdom .

Do these two sentences convey the same information?

OPT: -- no; -- yes;
yes