Smashing in at No. 2 spot
ALT-rock auteur Billy Corgan and his new-look Smashing Pumpkins are back on the pop albums chart, after a seven-year hiatus, with “Zeitgeist,” which sold 145,000 copies to claim the No. 2 spot on the rankings by Nielsen SoundScan.
Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin are the only holdovers from the Pumpkins lineup that created some of the most enduring rock music of the 1990s, and “Zeitgeist” is a sonic departure from those earlier days.
The No. 1 album in the country for the second week is “T.I. vs. T.I.P.,” which sold 175,000 copies -- enough to stay on top but also a steep drop from its first-week sales of 468,000 copies.
The indie rockers of Interpol are at No. 4 with their major-label debut with the Capitol Records album “Our Love to Admire,” which sold 73,000 copies.
Spoon, the indie-rock stalwarts from Austin, Texas, enjoyed the best sales week of their six-album career with the 46,000 copies sold of “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.” It debuts at No. 10 this week.
Aly & AJ, the pop sisters born in Torrance, opened at No. 15 with their album “Insomniatic,” which sold 39,000 copies. Alyson Renae and Amanda Joy Michalka star in a new MTV production “Super Sweet 16: The Movie.”
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