Chart Rundown

Weezer stormed in to a #4 chart position for the first week of Red Album sales, trailing only behind Disturbed, Usher and Volume 28 from Now That's What I Call Music. Radiohead's Best Of received a double entry with the slightly more popular Single Disc version, while In Rainbows continues to sell well. Meanwhile, iPod darlings The Ting Tings and Sub Pop's Fleet Foxes both sold over 8,000 with the first week actual sales.
Billboard 200:
- #4 Weezer - Weezer (Red Album) [126,599]
- #17 Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs [24,884 this week, down 26%, 254,729 to date]
- #26 Radiohead - Best Of (Single Disc) [18,361]
- #35 Various Artists - Juno OST [14,513 this week, down 12%, 793,089 to date]
- #70 Radiohead - In Rainbows [8,905 this week, up 1%, 543,453 to date]
- #72 Flight Of The Conchords - Flight Of The Conchords [8,825 this week, up 5%, 130,014 to date]
- #77 The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing [8,551 this week, up 279%, 15,242 to date]
- #81 Radiohead - Best Of (Double Disc) [8,155]
- #83 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes [8,027]
- #94 The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely [7,334 this week, up 10%, 174,397 to date]
- #95 R.E.M. - Accelerate [7,315 this week, down 17%, 275,477 to date]
- #103 Portishead - Third [6,737 this week, down 20%, 116,527 to date]
- #120 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend [5,659 this week, down 11%, 234,090 to date]
- #124 Gnarls Barkley - Odd Couple [5,207 this week, down 23%, 176,550 to date]
- #132 Ladytron - Velocifero [4,408 this week, up 284%, 7,734 to date]
- #152 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [4,352 this week, down 2%, 91,747 to date]
- #164 Black Keys - Attack & Release [3,958 this week, down 1%, 92,458 to date]
- #167 Santogold - Santogold [3,906 this week, down 17%, 34,876 to date]
- #199 Kooks - Konk [3,080 this year, down 8%, 42,588 to date]



and where is "New Artist Albums" section?
Posted by: lll | Friday, June 13, 2008 at 12:33 AM
I was wondering the same thing.
Posted by: JRR | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 05:28 PM
What does everyone think of the new Weezer album?
Posted by: charito | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM