THIS WEEK’S SOUNDSCAN NUMBERS REVEALED

Every Time I Die made a big splash this week to debut at number 41 with The Big Dirty, while Ted Nugent’s Love Grenade is a giant bomb at number 186. Click through for chart positions and sales numbers of this week’s hard rock and heavy metal records in the Top 200, after the jump.

#8: Nickelback – All the Right Reasons
This Week: 36,217
Cume: 5,893,772

#10: Linkin Park – Minutes to Midnight
This Week: 28,406
Cume: 1,658,091

#29: Atreyu – Lead Sails Paper Anchor
This Week: 18,476
Cume: 61,300

Down from #8. 57% sales drop. It’s “Uh-oh” time in HollywoodRecordsville.

#41: Every Time I Die – The Big Dirty
This Week: 13,833 (debut)

Pretty good… pret-tay, pret-tay, pret-tay good.

#42: Korn – Untitled
This Week: 13,817
Cume: 246,631

#50: As I Lay Dying – An Ocean Between Us
This Week: 11,584
Cume: 68,745

#52: White Stripes – Icky Thump
This Week: 11,033
Cume: 576,770

#57: Flyleaf – Flyleaf
This Week: 10,328
Cume: 712,803

#61: Finger Eleven, Them Vs. You Vs. Me
This Week: 9,682
Cume: 195,473

Still rising. Amazing. I don’t get it.

#68: Three Days Grace – One-X
This Week: 8,979
Cume: 877,088

#85: Hinder – Extreme Behavior
This Week: 7,308
Cume: 2,536,439

I have run out of jokes to make about Hinder. Insert your own here.

#91: Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist
This Week: 6,732
Cume: 286,565

#96: Velvet Revolver – Libertad
This Week: 6,275
Cume: 221,472

Back in the Top 100 after dropping out last week, but sold a near identical number of copies — actually, exactly 3 more than last week — indicating that the bump up the charts has more to do with the performance of other releases than this one.

Hangin’ on by a thead…

• 111: Buckcherry, 15 (Cume: 829,138)
• 113: Papa Roach – Paramour Sessions (Cume: 345,825)
• 115: Ozzy Osbourne – Black Rain (Cume: 377,384)
• 119: Halloween – Soundtrack (Cume: 18,596)
• 131: Breaking Benjamin – Phobia (Cume: 738,408)
• 133: Hellyeah – Hellyeah (Cume: 179,629)
• 142: Incubus – Light Grenades (Cume: 669,838)
• 147: Killswitch Engage – As Daylight Dies (Cume: 284,833)
• 163: The Scorpions – Humanity – Hour 1 (Cume: 14,536)
• 164: Sixx A.M. – The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack (Cume: 20,196)
• 179: 30 Seconds to Mars – Beautiful Lie (Cume: 1,067,750)
• 185: 12 Stones – Anthems for the Underdog (Cume: 27,215)
• 186: Ted Nugent – Love Grenade (Debut: 3,639)
• 199: Marilyn Manson – Eat Me, Drink Me (Cume: 214,594)
• 200: Evanescence – Open Door (Cume: 1,792,679)

-VN