BON JOVI scored their fifth #1 album this week, as "What About Now" debuted with 101,000 copies. DAVID BOWIE had to settle for 2nd place, as his new album, "The Next Day" sold 85,000 copies.
Rounding out the Top 10 is Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix so a great showing for Classic Rockers. And Dave Grohl's album features a lot of Classic Rockers, including Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Rick Springfeild... so really 5 of the 10 are Classic Rock Albums!
In all six new albums debuted in the Top 10 this week. Here's the full list . . .
1.) (NEW) "What About Now", Bon Jovi (101,000 copies)
2.) (NEW) "The Next Day", David Bowie (85,000 copies)
3.) "Spring Break . . . Here to Party", Luke Bryan (61,000 copies)
4.) (NEW) The "Passion: Let the Future Begin" live Christian album from the Passion Conference in January (48,000 copies)
5.) "Unorthodox Jukebox", Bruno Mars (43,000 copies)
6.) (NEW) "All Around the World", Mindless Behavior (37,000 copies)
7.) (NEW) "Old Sock", Eric Clapton (37,000 copies)
8.) (NEW) The soundtrack to Dave Grohl's "Sound City" documentary, "Sound City - Real to Reel" (37,000 copies)
9.) "Babel", Mumford & Sons (31,000 copies)
10.) "People, Hell and Angels", Jimi Hendrix (30,000 copies)
_________________________________________________________________________________________ And here's more about the new releases from last week:
"Sound City: Real To Reel", Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and a long list of collaborators who include his former Nirvanabandmate Krist Novoselic, plus . . .
. . Stevie Nicks, Paul McCartney, Rick Springfield, Trent Reznor, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford of Rage Against the Machine, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick.
(This album of all new songs was recorded as part of a documentary about a recording console from Sound City Studios. It had been used by dozens of legendary bands until Dave bought it and relocated it to his own studio.)
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"What About Now", the 12th album from Bon Jovi
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"The Next Day", David Bowie . . . His first new album in 10 years.
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"Old Sock", Eric Clapton . . . It features 10 covers, and two new original songs: "Gotta Get Over" and "Every Little Thing". His guests include Paul McCartney, who plays bass on "All of Me", and Steve Winwood, who plays the organ on "Still Got the Blues".
And click here to hear the whole album...it's streaming on the "Wall Street Journal's" website: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/03/05/exclusive-hear-eric-claptons-new-album-old-sock-first/
