‘Grenades’ arrives with a bang, lifting Incubus to No. 1
INCUBUS calls its new album “Light Grenades,” but even light artillery was enough for the hard-rocking outfit from Calabasas to capture the No. 1 slot on the national sales chart, the first time the group has made it to the top of that hill.
The collection sold 165,000 copies -- ironically, less than half the first-week sales of the band’s previous album, “A Crow Left of Murder,” which made it only as high as No. 2 despite a first-week figure of 332,000 copies in 2004, according to the Nielsen SoundScan sales monitoring service.
Last week’s No. 1 album, Jay-Z’s out-of-retirement work “Kingdom Come,” dropped to No. 5 with second-week sales of 140,000, down 80% from its inaugural-week figure of 680,000.
Elsewhere, the chart is beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. Sarah McLachlan’s “Wintersong” jumped 15 spots to No. 7 with sales of 116,000, while the third holiday collection in the “Now That’s What I Call Music!” series sold 102,000 copies, pushing it from No. 24 to No. 10.
Hip-hop duo Clipse enters the chart at No. 14 with “Hell Hath No Fury,” the only other new CD to break the Top 30. The collection sold 78,000 copies.
The top three spots next week should belong to Ciara, Eminem and Gwen Stefani, all expected to register first-week sales in the 200,000 to 350,000 range.
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