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Lisa Marie Presley debuts Number Five
Boston-based metal band Godsmack's third album Faceless sold 267,000 copies this past week, according to SoundScan, to debut at Number One. The album is Godsmack's first chart-topper, though its sales are only 11,000 higher than the first-week figure for the band's previous release, 2000's Awake, which mustered a Number Five bow.
Faceless managed to best West Coast new metal rival Meteora by Linkin Park, which dropped to Number Two with sales of 186,000. 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' remains a Top Five fixture at Number Three with sales of 159,000.
Other newcomers invaded the charts: Lisa Marie Presley's debut album, To Whom It May Concern, sneaked in at Number Five with sales of 142,000; Ginuwine's Senior debuted at Number Six with sales of 122,000; and James Taylor and Jay-Z both fared well warming up old material. The former sold 73,000 copies of The Best of James Taylor at Number Eleven, while the latter sold 55,000 copies of Blueprint 2.1 at Number Seventeen. Other strong debuts included Lucinda Williams' World Without Tears (Number Eighteen, 54,000 copies sold), Scarface's Balls and My Word (Number Twenty, 42,000), the Jayhawks' Rainy Day Music (Number Fifty-one, 19,000) and Boomkat's Boomkatalog One (Number Eighty-eight, 12,000).
Next week will likely see some movement near the top of the charts. Fleetwood Mac's Say You Will is the band's first new studio album with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks both on board in more than fifteen years. The band's The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac was a big seller last fall, and this week crept back into the Top 100 at Number Ninety-five. And Pete Yorn's Day I Forgot was also released this week, with a retail sticker as low as $5.99 in some outlets, which paired with the slow, successful burn of his previous album, might earn him a strong week one showing.
This week's Top Ten: Godsmack's Faceless; Linkin Park's Meteora; 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'; Now That's What I Call Music! 12; Lisa Marie Presley's To Whom It May Concern; Ginuwine's Senior; Cher's The Very Best of Cher; Celine Dion's One Heart; Norah Jones' Come Away With Me; and Evanescence's Fallen.