Version 2.0 of Evanescence, led by Amy Lee and her unbridled goth-girl impulses, grabbed the No. 1 spot on this week's Billboard 200, selling 447,000 copies of their new album The Open Door. Coming in at No. 2 were the Killers, whose everything-but-Clarence-Clemons homage to Springsteen Sam's Town scanned 315,000 copies.
Other chart movement:
Biggest Debuts: George Strait's It Just Comes Natural was the 30th album of his career to hit the charts, debuting at No. 3 with 232,000 sales. Beck's tricked-out release The Information came in at No. 7, with 99,000 copies (and lots of puffy stickers) sold. That's a lot of music bloggers, no? Monica came in right behind Beck, selling 93,000 copies of The Making of Me.
Biggest Slides: Is the world getting sick of Janet Jackson's breasts? 20 Y.O., which was promoted with lots in the way of hoopla and little in the way of shirts, took a 74% sales hit this week—although it stayed in the top 10, with 77,000 scans being good enough to snag the No. 9 position on the chart.
Nickelback Award For Inexplicable Durability: Oklahoman "real rock" quintet Hinder took a 1% hit in sales this week, but Extreme Behavior held on to the No. 10 slot on the chart. We've spent too many hours in recent weeks trying to figure out just what, exactly, made these velvet-jacketed jokers such a dominant sales force. Is it the Kroeger-esque pipes possessed by lead singer Austin Winkler? The fusion of jerky lyrics with guitars that recall Creed at their peak? Or the prominent rack on Extreme Behavior's cover?
Evanescence Zooms By Killers To Take No. 1 [Billboard]









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Don't forget twee gods Decemberists, scoring both their first top 100 and first top 40 album in one fell swoop: Crane Wife opened all the way up at #35. That's a lot of Seth Cohens. Impressive considering another 100,000 kids probably torrented it.
No word on TV on the Radio yet from HITS or Billboard, 'cuz they didn't make the top 50. Hopefully the top 100.
TVOTR sadly sinked on the Billboard chart thanks to the 100,000 kids that torrented it. But they'll make up for the loss of sales through their sold-out tour.
I've wondered who likes Nickelback and Hinder. According to RS, both bands are big in red states, where radio stations play them all the time. Red states apparently love down-home country style post grunge.
Yes I'm saving up money to move to Amsterdam.
Nickelback gets plenty of airplay in Canada, because apparently CanCon means we'll just play the same five shitty Canuck artists ad nauseum instead of mixing things up a bit.
Word on Nickelback and Hinder. It blows my mind that on hipster/music-geek blogs like this one, we all argue about how tired we are of the Shins or Lily Allen or even Justin Trousersnake, when there are far, far more evil shitmerchants out there we should all be banding together to destroy. With...I dunno, the power of our snark or something.
tee. Is CanCon still subjecting you to the suburban malaise that is Matthew Good or has he gone on to his life's work?
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