THIS WEEK IN METAL: THE SOUNDSCAN CHARTS

Any week in which the highest charting metal albums are a ‘best of’ collection from Led Zeppelin at #20, followed by Linkin Park, Nickelback, and Kid Rock, is a rough one. But to be fair, there have been NO new releases yet this year and there won’t be for another couple of weeks. Finger Eleven and Buckcherry continue their remarkable and unlikely rides up the chart (again!) while Dragonforce proves that Guitar Hero sells records. Chart numbers and sales figures after the jump.

#20: Led Zeppelin – Mothership
This Week: 21,729
Cume: 700,329

Baby boomers still buy CDs. Over and over!

#24 Linkin Park — Minutes to Midnight
This Week: 20,133
Cume: 2,143,078

#30: Nickelback – All the Right Reasons
This Week: 18,756
Cume: 6,534,163

Still funding the rest of Roadrunner’s bands…

#44: Kid Rock – Rock N’ Roll Jesus
This Week: 13,581
Cume: 692,666

#52: Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
This Week: 12,298
Cume: 561,923

Will it reach platinum? Maybe.

#63: Finger Eleven – Them Vs. You Vs. Me
This Week: 10,219
Cume: 421,926

45 weeks on the charts and counting. Fucking unbelievable!

#65: Buckcherry – 15
This Week: 9,882
Cume: 961,812

91 weeks on the charts!!!

#68: Seether – Finding Beauty in Negative Space
This Week: 9,531
Cume: 268,031

#75: Godsmack – Good Times, Bad Times: Ten Years of Godsmack
This Week: 8,943
Cume: 138,251

#79: Flyleaf – Flyleaf
This Week: 8,699
Cume: 896,351

#88: Avenged Sevenfold – Avenged Sevenfold
This Week: 7,502
Cume: 267,726

Not as big a seller as I would have expected. But then again it took a year for City of Evil to even catch on.

#90: Three Days Grace – One-X
This Week: 7,306
Cume: 1,058,448

#98: Eddie Vedder – Into the Wild Soundtrack
This Week: 6,920
Cume: 219,603

• #112: Sixx A.M. – The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack (Cume: 117,070)
• #119: Serj Tankian – Elect the Dead: (Cume: 208,152)
• #139: Puddle of Mudd – Famous (Cume: 125,995)
• #144: Alter Bridge – Blackbird (Cume: 153,576)
• #147: Dragonforce – Inhuman Rampage (Cume: 214,216)
• #148: Metalocalypse: Dethklok – Dethalbum (Cume: 165,391)
• #158: Breaking Benjamin – Phobia (Cume: 827,103)
• #180: Atreyu – Lead Sails, Paper Anchor (Cume: 169,012)
• 185: Coheed & Cambria – No World For Tomorrow (Cume: 153,979)
• #199: Korn – Untitled (Cume: 367,166)
• #200: Killswitch Engage – As Daylight Dies (Cume: 349,185)