Atreyu's new album Congregation of the Damned has debuted at number 18 on the Billboard 200 selling 26,000 copies. Although it is not as high as Lead Sails Paper Anchors (debuted at number 8), it is still really good.
I blame the economy. And Atreyu is not the only band to feel the economic shitstorm. AFI released their highly anticipated Crash Love this year which debuted at number 13 in it's first week in comparison to it's 2006 predecessor Decemberunderground which debuted at number 2. Even though their newer album did not sell as well, it is still regarded by their fans as a better album than it's predecessor.
Either way, congrats to the boys for still doing well on sales and of course congrats for making such an amazing fucking album which is still very much their best in my opinion.
Thanks to Joe for pointing this out to me!
You can read about there here (MTV) and here (Blabbermouth).
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I still can't believe Creed came in 2nd and sold over 100,000. Boggles the mind.
ReplyDeleteyou cant blame the economy, lead sails sold 43000, i mean 26000 is bad for as big as a band as atreyu is, killswitch's new cd sold 58000, well they are a bigger band, but still, i mean 26000, i feel bad for atreyu
ReplyDeletehere you can see the position of the album in the other charts
ReplyDeletehttp://www.billboard.com/#/album/atreyu/congregation-of-the-damned/1295664
@ corey. when LSPA came out people had far more moeny to blow on CDs
ReplyDelete@JoeMimic ...indeed, it does boggle