The days where Linkin Park were putting up Adele-type numbers with their new albums are very likely over, but they still have enough momentum from those days to ensure at least one more #1 album. The band’s fifth studio album Living Things is being projected by Billboard to sell between 230-240k in its first week of sale, which should be just enough to make it the band’s fifth number one album (and about matches the first-week numbers of A Thousand Suns, the band’s previous album). Rock music is back, very temporarily!
Unfortunately for Maroon 5, this means that they’re gonna have to make do with having the #2 album, as fourth album Overexposed is probably gonna pull up just short, with projected sales of 210-220k. (It’s far better than the debut of previous effort Hands All Over, which also debuted at #2, but with only 142k sold in its first week.) Both will finish ahead of other top ten debuts from the Maybach Music Group (Self-Made, Vol. 2, 80-90k) and R. Kelly (Write Me Back, 65k), while Justin Bieber will drop to #3 in the second week of release for Believe, which should still sell in the low six digits.
Next week, Chris Brown and Flo Rida battle it out for the top spot, unless Adele’s post-baby news sales bump sends her hurtling back to the top of the charts. Good to have some legitimate competition on top these days, at least.
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