THIS WEEK’S SOUNDSCAN REPORT

Most of the big debuts in hard rock and metal came last week with the Foo Fighters, Dethklok, Down and Arch Enemy — but all of these held respectable positions, while Nightwish and The Cult made Top 100 debuts. Chart positions and sales numbers after the jump.

#16: Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
This Week: 54,527
Cume: 223,195

Down from a #3 debut, but gotta hand it to Dave Grohl for consistently cranking out awesome tunes that people seem to keep caring about. This one will do very well.

#22: Nickelback – All the Right Reasons
This Week: 34,172
Cume: 6,030,533

Sigh.

#32: Linkin Park – Minutes to Midnight
This Week: 21,616
Cume: 1,759,969

See #22, above.

#67: Metalocolypse: Dethklok – Dethalbum
This Week: 13,233
Cume: 47,092

Down from a #21 debut — but come on, this is a band of fucking cartoons!!! Amazingly that they could even break the Top 100 at all.

#70: The Cult – Born Into This
This Week: 12,637 (debut)

Ian Astbury may still sound awesome, but this band is no longer relevant.

#84: Nightwish – Dark Passion Play
This Week: 10,819 (debut)

#87: Down – Down III: Over the Under
This Week: 10,165
Cume: 39,524

I wouldn’t expect this to be a big seller; these numbers are pretty much in line with what I’d expect. Down is a cult band, doesn’t belong on a major label.

#90: Three Days Grace – One-X
This Week: 9,569
Cume: 914,046

#94: Dropkick Murphys – Meanest of Times
This Week: 8,847
Cume: 50,773

#95: Finger Eleven – Them Vs. You Vs. Me
This Week: 8,762
Cume: 229,586

Think that a radio single can’t drive album sales anymore? Class A exhibit: Finger Eleven.

Still in the the top 200:

• 102: Flyleaf – Flyleaf (Cume: 744,442)
• 104: Korn – Untitled (Cume: 281,260)
• 108: H.I.M. – Venus Doom (Cume: 58,390)
• 111: White Stripes – Icky Thump (Cume: 610,034)
• 118: Halloween – Soundtrack (Cume: 17,159)
• 119: Atreyu – Lead Sails Paper Anchor (Cume: 95,714)
• 147: Thousand Foot Krutch – The Flame in All of Us (Cume: 14,734)
• 149: Hinder – Extreme Behavior (Cume: 2,560,174)
• 161: Hellyeah – Hellyeah (Cume: 198,320)
• 163: Arch Enemy – Rise of the Tyrant (Cume: 13,889)
• 177: Buckcherry – 15 (Cume: 848,106)
• 178: Breaking Benjamin – Phobia (Cume: 756,263)
• 185: As I Lay Dying – An Ocean Between Us (Cume: 92,766)
• 188: Ozzy Osbourne – Black Rain (Cume: 395,364)
• 197: Sixx A.M. – The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack (Cume: 38,133)
• 198: Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist (Cume: 307,687)

-VN