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Coldplay Too Hot for Foos, Backstreet
06/22/2005 2:24 PM, E! Online
David Jenison
The Foo Fighters set a band sales record and Backstreet is
back--alright!--but nothing was as hot as Coldplay on this week's album
chart.
In its first week out, the Foo Fighters' In Your
Honor sold nearly 311,000 copies--the biggest sales week ever for
the Dave Grohl-fronted group--but still finished 12,000 shy of
Coldplay's X&Y, which extended its chart-topping streak to a
second week by moving 323,000 albums, according to Nielsen SoundScan
figures released Wednesday. It has now sold more than 1 million copies
in its first two weeks.
Led by the hit single "Best of You,"
In Your Honor, the fifth Foo studio album since Grohl's Nirvana
days, is a double album featuring one disc of hard rock songs and
another with more acoustic numbers. The softer disc includes appearances
by Norah Jones and violinist Petra Haden.
In Your
Honor's first-week sales more than doubled the Foos' previous album,
One by One. The new release topped the charts in Australia, New
Zealand and Sweden and was number two, behind Coldplay, in the U.K.,
Norway and Ireland. The band embarks on a European tour June 29 in
Moscow followed by a full-scale U.S. tour in September backed by Queens
of the Stone Age.
While the Foo Fighters and Coldplay battled
for the top spot, the Backstreet Boys fought to show they were still
commercially viable after three years apart. Their new Never Gone
sold 291,000 copies to open at three.
Historically, Never
Gone doesn't come close to matching the group's prior first weeks:
1.13 million copies for 1999's Millennium and then record 1.6
million for 2000's Black & Blue. But those numbers reflect a time
when boy bands ruled the world. The group's previous release, Hits:
Chapter One, dropped just a year after the massive Black &
Blue, could only muster 197,000 in first-week sales sold for a
number four bow.
The new album, featuring the monster single
"Incomplete," is proving to be a worldwide hit, debuting at number one
in Japan, Germany, India, Chile and Korea and in the top 5 in Austria,
Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Mexico and Brazil.
The
Backstreet Boys, who have sold more than 73 million copies worldwide--30
million in the U.S. alone, launch their tour July 22 in West Palm Beach,
Florida.
Wrapping up the week's Top 10 bows, Fat Joe's All
or Nothing sold over 106,000 copies to open at number six. The
Bronx-raised Latino rapper, currently on the charts with his Nelly
collaboration "Get It Poppin'," responded to 50 Cent's diss track "Piggy
Bank" with his own slam, "My Fofo," on the new disc.
Country
babe Erika Joe landed the week's next best bow as her self-titled debut
sold 36,000 copies at 27. The singer, who just graduated from high
school, was the winner of the USA Network's Nashville Star
talent-competition show, which crowned the singer champ last April.
L.A. metalheads Static-X opened at 29 with their new disc
Start A War selling 35,000 discs, while As I Lay Dying
accounted for 33,000 discs as Shadows Are Security debuted at 35.
Other noteworthy debuts included Dwight Yoakam's Blame The
Vain at 54, Dark New Day's Twelve Year Silence at 103,
Patriotic Country Vol. 2 at 137, Funeral for a Friend's
Hours at 139, Life of Agony's Broken Valley at 147, Indigo
Girls' Rarities at 159 and the Batman Begins soundtrack at
170.
Meanwhile, in the wake of Michael Jackson's total
acquittal, fans celebrated by buying up enough Number Ones discs
to put the album back on the charts at 134.
Finally, over the
singles chart, new American Idol champ Carrie Underwood dominated
the top spot selling nearly 130,000 copies of her debut, "Inside Your
Heaven." Runner-up Bo Bice will make his singles chart debut next week
with his own version of "Inside Your Heaven" backed with "Vehicle."
Here's a rundown of the Top 10 albums for the week ended
Sunday:
1. X&Y, Coldplay
2. In Your Honor,
Foo Fighters
3. Never Gone, Backstreet Boys
4. The
Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey
5. Monkey Business,
Black Eyed Peas
6. All or Nothing, Fat Joe
7.
Honkytonk University, Toby Keith
8. Fijacion Oral, Vol.
1, Shakira
9. Love, Angel, Music, Baby, Gwen Stefani
10. Mezmerize, System of a Down
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