The Dave Matthews Band leads a wave of new releases taking over the top slots of Billboard's album chart, as record companies begin their fall assault of major new releases.
The Dave Matthews Band's latest, “Away From the World†(RCA), opened at No. 1 with 266,000 copies sold in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It is the band's sixth consecutive studio album to debut at No. 1, and the first by any group to achieve such a run. But with music sales depressed over all these days, “Away From the World†had the lowest opening-week sales number for any of the group's studio releases since 1996, when its second release, “Crash,†opened at No. 2 with 254,000, as Billboard noted.
< p>The next five spots on the chart this week are for new albums. The country group Little Big Town is No. 2 with 113,000 sales of “Tornado,†and Bob Dylan opened at No. 3 with 110,000 sales of his latest, “Tempest†(Columbia); Mr. Dylan's last two records, “Together Through Life†and “Modern Times,†both opened at No. 1.The Avett Brothers reached No. 4 with “The Carpenter†(Universal Republic), selling 98,000 copies; the British indie band the xx opened at No. 5 with 73,000 sales of its second album, “Coexist†(Young Turks/XL); and ZZ Top is No. 6 with “La Futura†(American), its first studio release in nine years, which sold 31,000 copies.
Amanda Palmer, the “punk cabaret†singer who raised $1.2 million on Kickstarter for the release of her new album, “Theatre Is Evil†(8ft.), opened at No. 10 with 24,000 sales of that record, including advance orders. Ms. Palmer's unorthodox business practices caused a minor furor recently w hen she asked musicians to volunteer for her tour, leading to some angry accusations that she was exploiting the players for cheap labor.
Last week's No. 1, Matchbox Twenty's “North†(Atlantic), fell to No. 8 with 28,000 sales, a 71 percent decline in its second week out.
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