Green Day's "Idiot" Amok on Charts
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Proving that seven is their   lucky number, the goofball punksters of Green Day have notched their   first number album with their seventh studio release, American   Idiot.
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So far 2008 has not been a good year for music sales. This week Alicia Keys, below, stays atop the Billboard chart with âAs I Amâ (J), but the number of copies that CD sold is barely above the historic low for a No. 1 album. Nielsen SoundScan reported that 61,000 copies of the album sold last week; the least number of weekly sales for No. 1 is 60,000, set by the âDreamgirlsâ soundtrack a year ago. (The numbers are rounded.) This week the âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino) is at No. 2 with 58,000, Mary J. Bligeâs âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) is No. 3 with 52,000, and Radioheadâs âIn Rainbowsâ (ATO) is next with 46,000. The R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn opens at No. 5 with 45,000 sales of âLove Behind the Melodyâ (J) and John Legendâs new âLive From Philadelphia,â available only through Target, reached No. 7 with 33,000.
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Green Day&#39;s American Idiot, a seriocomic political punk-rock opera, sold 267,000 copies to enter Billboard at No. 1, giving the Bay Area trio its highest chart debut to date and biggest sales week in 10 years.
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Bon Jovi topped the album charts for  the first time since 1988 on Wednesday, while rock duo the  White Stripes scored a personal best with a No. 2 debut for  their latest release.
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The stupid moves the recording industry makes generally outweigh the smart ones.
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Eminem's new album debuted atop the charts, following a decision by the rapper's record label to move up the album's sale date amid piracy concerns.
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Arts & entertainment: Album chart topped by little-known band, with similarly under-hyped Amy MacDonald in second place
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - In case you missed lessons   learned in recent years from "American Idol," awards shows and   the career path of Josh Groban, the top 10 of the latest   Billboard 200 albums chart makes an obvious marketing mantra   abundantly clear: TV exposure sells music.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - There was a time when Rod Stewart's   songwriting chops regularly helped him crown the charts. Today,   the singer sells millions of copies by interpreting the songs   of others, notably in the four, highly successful volumes of   his "Great American Songbook" series.
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Exclusive: To celebrate the return of football to the Superdome and aid in the city's rebuilding, U2 and Green Day will debut their special new benefit single on Monday Night Football
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50 Cent may be getting hip-hop's equivalent of a gold watch next week. Early reports have Kanye West beating 50 in their much-hyped battle of album sales: West's "Graduation" is on pace to sell about 575,000 to 700,000 its first week out, while 50 Cent's "Curtis" is on track to do 550,000, according to Billboard magazine.
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Veteran rockers The Eagles have topped the US chart after a last-minute rule change by its compilers.
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Billie Joe Armstrong swung his microphone around a few times, and that&#39;s the only thing last night&#39;s Green Day show had in common with the Who.
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Rolling Stone magazine claims to have the answer in a special issue hitting newsstands tomorrow. The list-happy music magazine, which has previously offered its rankings of the top albums of
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Grammy-nominated punk trio Green  Day returned to the top of the U.S. pop charts Wednesday with  its hit opus "American Idiot," which sold just 178 copies more  than Eminem's reigning champ.
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Eminem topped music charts for a second week, warming up a recent cold spell for record companies who hope the rapper and big releases from acts like U2 and Gwen Stefani will ignite a hot holiday season
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Pop-punk band Green Day scored its first No. 1 album on the US pop charts on Wednesday with &quot;American Idiot,&quot; the group&#39;s fifth studio set and its first release in four years.