SOUNDSCAN WEDNESDAY BELONGS TO BARONESS AND SKELETONWITCH
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 1:00pm by Vince Neilstein
Not that we had any doubt Baroness’ Blue Record would have a strong debut, but it’s always nice to see the proof. And Skeletonwitch’s ripping new record Breathing the Fire had a great debut too; I’m elated to see the band sell as many records first week as they did. Elsewhere it was the usual radio rock / alt-metal suspects dominating the charts. Click through to see chart positions and sales figures.
13 BREAKING BENJAMIN - DEAR AGONY
This week: 26,569
Cume: 203,001
Oy.
17 ALICE IN CHAINS - BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE
This Week: 23,023
Cume: 185,775
This record is slipping down the charts quite quickly as is de rigueur this days, so hopefully the AIC guys don’t pull a Dave Mustaine and blame their label.
33 MUSE – RESISTANCE
This week: 15,394
Cume: 222,275
That’s a great number for this band in the U.S., no?
49 METALOCALYPSE: DETHKLOK - DETHALBUM II
This week: 10,892
Cume: 72,010
57 FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – WAR IS THE ANSWER
This week: 9,521
Cume: 84,463
65 SHINEDOWN - SOUND OF MADNESS
This week: 8,386
Cume: 771,480
95 CHEVELLE - SCI-FI CRIMES
This week: 5,697
Cume: 104,954
108 THEORY OF A DEADMAN - SCARS & SOUVENIRS
This week: 5,031
Cume: 731,310
111 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA - 11:11
This week: 4,884
Cume: 42,517
117 BARONESS - BLUE RECORD
This week: 4,696 (debut)
A huge debut for this band and a huge debut for Relapse. Congrats to everyone! Will they follow Mastodon’s footsteps from the metal underground to the mainstream? FYI, this record netted #1 on the “Top New Artist” chart and #15 on “Top Hard Music.”
142 MEGADETH – ENDGAME
This week: 3,948
Cume: 75,795
Boo fucking hoo, you’ve sold nearly 100,000 records. Now go tour and make money the way everyone else does these days, douche.
151 SKELETONWITCH - BREATHING THE FIRE
This week: 3,483 (debut)
I honestly did not expect these guys to sell so many records but I’m of course happy they did. I guess they have hardcore fans.
154 HATEBREED – HATEBREED
This week: 3,326
Cume: 24,001
Is this band’s popularity finally waning or do people just care more about their lives show than their records?
166 STEEL PANTHER - FEEL THE STEEL
This week: 3,047
Cume: 13,655
This band will be dropped from Universal faster than you can say “my cock’s a free spirit.” Too bad, ’cause they rule.
167 CHICKENFOOT – CHICKENFOOT
This week: 3,017
Cume: 329,162
-VN
Those two records definitely deserve it.
I agree completely. I’m glad to see metal albums charting in general. I, for one, embrace good metal getting to the mainstream (or at least getting the respect it deserves).
I bought both the Baroness and Skeletonwitch records. Totally awesome.
First day buyer of Breathing the Fire here, fucking great record. As for hatebreed, I couldnt agree with you more, I didnt buy their new album, but definitely did get tickets to see them next month with Cannibal Corpse. It’s also really good to see Dethklok posting such solid numbers.
Good for Baroness.
Couldn’t care less about the rest of them…
Nor do they care for you.
I don’t profit from their care, but they would profit from mine.
lul
Both the Baroness and Skeletonwitch albums are awesome, so this shouldn’t be a huge surprise. Baroness’ album especially is fucking great.
Bought both of them in the first week, and I’ll be seeing Baroness live in Austin. Great, great albums.
LOL. Dethklok are actually going to outsell Megadeth. That’s hilarious.
Oh, and Vince, AIC are holding up just fine. They’ve spent 3 weeks in the Top 20 now, which is something crybaby Mustaine has only managed once in his career, which was back in 1992 with Countdown To Extinction.
Hails to Skeletonwitch!!! Great to see ALL THAT FKN TOURING has earned them a cool fanbase that goes out and BUYS records!!! Long may they THRASH!
I couldnt agree more man. I have seen them 3 times in the past year in the Dallas area. They tour like crazy. I REALLY wish they would have come back again with Children Of Bodom though
Yeah, it was awesome in the Southern California area. I was lucky enough to see them with Children of Bodom and it was great. I met Mr. Laiho before the show, too, near the tour bus. He’s cool, he’ll talk for a minute to us fans.
“Is this band’s popularity finally waning or do people just care more about their lives show than their records?”
You’re starting to sound more like Toki Wartooth every day! But it should read, “Ams this band’s popularity finallys waning or ams peoples just cares mores abouts lives show thans their record?
Skeletonwitch was great live! I picked up their album at the show on the tenth. They gave me a free Skeletonwitch patch to go with it.
Sorry.
No, that was funny, keep at it.
The new Baroness is great. I hope it continues to sell well. I wonder how it compares to the red album debut.
I don’t like Hatebreed’s CD’s, but there’s something about Jamey Jasta as a frontman that whenever I see him I have to pay attention (and I’ve seen both Hatebreed and Kingdom of Sorrow). Dude’s one hell of a frontman. Maybe their live show is all they got going for em.
To be honest i was more impressed by the covers album than their new release. Id like to see them step up their skills after hearing their cover of Ghosts of war. I got it their a Hardcore Band, but cmon you know they got more than that.
They’re a Hardcore band…..sorry.
Wow. That Hatebreed number is REALLY low. I’m kinda surprised, considering how fucking huge their fanbase is. Crazy.
And I only just started listening to Baroness (tried to dig the red album but it wasn’t happening), but Blue Record is fucking tight and tasty. Still have to check out the new Skeletonwitch.
Seriously, How do terribly generic radio rock bands sell that many records. Breaking Benjamin, Theory of a Deadman, Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, Chickenfoot etc.
I get that people have their own tastes but this music is just plain predictable and bad. Having said that, its great to see some great metal bands selling well.
Two words…radio and rock.
I kind of liked that Chickenfoot album. Nothing special but it’s some good ol’ rock n’ roll.
Yeah, my metalhead coworker (all one of him) played it for me loudly one Friday and it was okay. Southern rock style.
Oh my God 329,169 people bought the Chickenfoot record.
I don’t care whether you think they’re good or bad or whatever. Do you really think Chickenfoot deserve to sell Three Hundred Thousand records? Fucking REALLY?
If people would just get their tongues out of the asses of Baroness long enough they might figure out that the new album is a piece of astonishing mediocrity. This from someone who really enjoyed The Red Album. The definition of over-hyped and over-rated.