Coldplay staved off strong competition from Foo Fighters and the Backstreet Boys to rule the U.S. pop albums chart for a second week, according to sales data released Wednesday.
X&Y (Capitol) sold 323,000 copies in the week ended June 19, followed by Foo Fighters' "In Your Honor" with 310,600 copies and Backstreet Boys' "Never Gone" with 291,000 copies. The total for "X&Y" stands at 1.1 million copies.
Foo Fighters earned their highest Billboard 200 position and career-best sales week with their double-disc RCA set. The rock band's last album, "One by One" opened at No. 3 in 2002 with 122,000 copies and has sold 1.2 million to-date. The Foos' best-selling album remains 1997's "The Colour and the Shape" at 1.9 million."In Your Honor" also debuted at No. 1 in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden, and at No. 2 in Britain, Ireland and Norway, according to RCA.
The tally for the Backstreet Boys' latest Jive set is a far cry from the first week of their last studio set, "Black and Blue," which opened at No. 1 with 1.6 million units in 2000, and has sold 5.4 million to date.
"Never Gone" also debuted at No. 1 in Japan (on the international chart), Germany, India, Chile, and South Korea, according to Jive.
Fat Joe rounded out the top 10 debuts with his best sales week and Billboard 200 career high mark, as "All or Nothing" (Terror Squad/Atlantic) entered at No. 6 on sales of 106,500 units. The rapper's previous peak was a No. 7 start with "Don Cartagena" based on a 106,000-copy week in 1998. His best-selling album to-date remains 2001's "J.O.S.E.: Jealous Ones Still Envy" with 938,000.
In between this week's new entries was chart favorite Mariah Carey, whose "The Emancipation of Mimi" (Island/Def Jam) rose one place to No. 4 with 163,300 copies, and the Black Eyed Peas' "Monkey Business" (A&M/Interscope), which fell three places to No. 5 with 154,500.
At No. 7 for a second week, Toby Keith's "Honkytonk University" (DreamWorks Nashville) sold 93,000 copies. Colombian chanteuse Shakira's Spanish-language "Fijacion Oral, Volumen 1" (Epic) fell four places to No. 8 with 77,000 copies.
Gwen Stefani's "Love, Angel, Music, Baby" (Interscope) dropped one place to No. 9 with 76,400 copies, followed by System Of A Down's "Mezmerize" (American/Columbia), down four places, with 76,200 copies. The White Stripes' new release "Get Behind Me Satan" (V2) spent just one week in the top 10, falling eight places to No. 11 with 75,500 copies.
Other notable Billboard 200 entries included third-season "Nashville Star" winner Erika Jo's self-titled debut (Universal South, No. 27); Static-X's "Start a War" (Warner Bros., No. 29); As I Lay Dying's "Shadows are Security" (Metal Blade, No. 35); and country veteran Dwight Yoakam's New West Records debut, "Blame the Vain" (No. 54).
Also worth noting was the debut of Alanis Morissette's Starbucks-exclusive "Jagged Little Pill Acoustic" (Maverick/Warner Bros.), which sold 56,000 copies through the Seattle-based coffee retailer's U.S. outlets, but is not eligible to chart on The Billboard 200 unless it is generally available to all retailers. The tally would have been good enough for No. 17 on the Billboard 200. "Acoustic" will expand to other retailers outside of Starbucks on July 26.
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