The hard rock band's first album in five years sold 337,000 copies in the United States during the week ended September 21, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The Warner Bros. release debuted with 490,000 the previous week after just three days of sales. (It was released worldwide on a Friday. Albums usually come out on a Tuesday in the United States, and a day earlier everywhere else.)
Starting at No. 2 was Ne-Yo's "Year of the Gentleman" with 250,000 copies. The Def Jam album follows two No. 1 bows for the R&B singer-songwriter: 2006 debut "In My Own Words" (301,000) and 2007's "Because of You" (251,000).
Nelly's "Brass Knuckles," the rapper's first studio set since 2004, entered the Billboard 200 at No. 3 with 84,000. Four years ago, he dropped two separate albums on the same day -- "Suit" and "Sweat" -- which debuted at Nos. 1 and 2 with 396,000 and 342,000, respectively.
In its 50th week on the chart, Kid Rock's "Rock N Roll Jesus" drops one rung to No. 4 on a 15 percent decline to 64,000 copies.
Hootie & the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with the country set "Learn to Live," which sold 60,000 copies.
Young Jeezy's "The Recession" fell from No. 2 to No. 6 with 60,000 copies, a 33 percent sales decline. DJ Khaled notched his third straight top 15 album as "We Global" entered at No. 7 with 49,000. His first two charting albums -- 2006's "Listennn: The Album" and 2007's "We the Best" -- debuted and peaked at Nos. 12 and 8, respectively.
Rock band Buckcherry earned its best sales week ever and highest-charting album as "Black Butterfly" opened at No. 8 with sales of 47,000.
Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" slipped 9 percent in sales and descended from No. 8 to No. 9 with 43,000 while the Game's "LAX" moved from No. 7 to No. 10 with 42,000 (a 16 percent decline).
Other new entries include All That Remains' "Overcome" (No. 16, 29,000), Raphael Saadiq's "The Way I See It" (No. 19, 23,000), Avenged Sevenfold's "Live in the LBC & Diamond in the Rough" (No. 24, 20,000) and Eli Young Band's "Jet Black & Jealous" (No. 30, 16,000).
At 6.92 million units, sales were up 1.1 percent from the previous week's sum and down 16.5 percent from the year-earlier period.
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