Disturbed Send Chicks Home
Disturbed bounded to the top of the charts this week, ending the
Dixie Chicks’ three-week reign. Believe, the second
release by the Chicago metal men, sold 284,000 copies according to
SoundScan, to claim the top spot. The Chicks’ Home fell
only a notch, with sales of 168,000. Avril Lavigne continued to
play bridesmaid, as her pesky Let Go has repeatedly inched
within one spot of Number One, only to be thwarted by a new
release. The album sold 132,000 copies in its sixteenth week of
release at Number Three.
The Top Ten actually received a nice infusion of new blood. The
Ludacris project, Disturbing tha Peace’s Golden Grain,
moved 95,000 copies for a Number Six bow, Lifehouse’s Stanley
Climbfall sold 74,000 at Number Seven and Kenny G scored one
for jazz and blew his way into Number Nine with sales of 61,000. G
landed a slot behind fellow (yet chic and diploma’d) nouveaux
jazzbo Norah Jones and her debut, Come Away With Me, which
seems to be unpacking its bags in the top of the charts, selling
69,000 copies last week for its third consecutive week in the Top
Ten.
Want more debuts? We got ’em. Enrique Iglesias’ return to
Espanol with Quizas sold 49,000 copies at Number Twelve; a
re-release of John Mayer’s 1999 debut EP, Inside Wants
Out, moved 36,000 units at Number Twenty-two; and Natalie
Cole’s Ask a Woman Who Knows sold 26,000 copies to jump in
at Number Thirty-two.
Next week things look to be all shook up. The new Elvis Presley
collection, 30 #1 Hits, might mimic the success of the
Beatles’ 1 and put the past on top. Critical darling Beck
hasn’t fared well commercially without aid from radio hits, and his
new, achey-breaky Sea Change looks more like “More
Mutations” than “Odelaygain.” But the advance praise of the record
might provide a sales band-aid following a not-so-friendly
Midnite Vultures reception three years ago.
This week’s Top Ten: Disturbed’s Believe; Dixie Chicks’
Home; Avril Lavigne’s Let Go; Nelly’s
Nellyville; Eminem’s The Eminem Show; Disturbing
tha Peace’s Golden Grain; Lifehouse’s Stanley
Climbfall; Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me; Kenny G’s
Paradise; and Toby Keith’s Unleashed.