Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Disturbed 'Indestructable" Joins Van Halen, U2, System of a Down For Sales Record

It seems the whole world is Disturbed. The massively popular metal band now has three #1 albums (Billboard) in a row given their latest, Indestructible just sold 252,000 copies (Nielsen SoundScan).

The only other rock bands to have achieved this are Van Halen, U2, Metallica, Dave Matthews Band, Staind and System of a Down.

Melodic dinosaur's Journey debuted #5 debut with their new one,Revelation (WalMart only), selling 105,000 copies in its first week, their best sales since Trial By Fire in 1996. Progressive Metal band Opeth hit #23 with Watershed, with Radiohead's Best Of at #26

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