Dave Matthews Band is ruling the physical and digital charts, topping not only iTunes' album chart but also the Billboard Top 200. It's interesting the album is doing so well without a Top 10 single. That ought to serve as a bit of a rebuke to everyone who thought iTunes' a la carte approach to music sales would kill the album. In fact, none of the artists in the Top 6 of the album charts have a Top 10 single. Only Lady GaGa's The Fame is represented in the singles chart (and she has two of them).
So, DMB's first album since the passing of saxophonist LaRoi Moore tops the charts knocking Eminem from #1 to #2. I've heard good things about this record, including a favorable review from BC's Mark Saleski. I'm stunned to see 311 in the #3 slot. Those guys haven't been significant sellers since the mid '90s. I completely despised their hybrid of rap-rock, as well as just about every other band who fused those two genres. I never got their appeal and wasn't at all surprised to see them fade. This resurgence — if only for one week — is a disappointing shock to me.
Taking Back Sunday and Green Day both have albums in the Top 10. I don't know if that helps or hurts the cause of those who believe one is a clone of the other. The 'supergroup' Chickenfoot, comprised of former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, guitar great and Coldplay antagonist Joe Satriani, and Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer Chad Smith, gets their debut album in the Top 10 at #6. This one got a positive review at BC, although other critics have been less kind.
Albums:
1. Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux - King Dave Matthews Band
2. Relapse - Eminem
3. Uplifter - 311
4. Only By the Night - Kings of Leon
5. New Again - Taking Back Sunday
6. Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot
7. The Fame - Lady GaGa
6. 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day
7. Twilight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Various Artists
8. Kenny Chesney Greatest Hits II - Kenny Chesney
Article comments
1 - arnie
[personal attack deleted] 311 is quite a talented group