On the Charts: Lil Wayne Leads the Way as Plies, MMJ Debut in Top 10 The Big News: There was Lil Wayne, and then there were 199 other albums. Light years behind Tha Carter III at number two was rapper Plies’ Definition of Real, which sold 215,000 copies. Third place went to Now! 28, last week’s champ Disturbed and their Indestructible fell to four and Usher’s Here I Stand claimed fifth. Tha Carter III wasn’t the only album to go platinum, however, as Mariah Carey’s E=MC2 and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand both crossed the million sales threshold last week, while the Eagles’ Long Road Out of Eden passed three million in sales. Debuts: Outside the big rap debuts, a trio of rookies claimed the 7-8-9 spots, as N.E.R.D.’s Seeing Sounds, Alanis Morissette’s Flavors of Entanglement and My Morning Jacket’s Evil Urges all cracked the top 10. Emmylou Harris’ All I Intended to Be bowed in at 22 with 27,000 copies and the Wallflowers’ Jakob Dylan and his solo Seeing Things entered at 24. Last Week’s Heroes: Weezer’s Red Album suffered from a 64% sales drop from its debut week, stumbling from four down to ten. Journey’s Relevations held surprisingly strong though, only falling one spot down from five to six in its second week on the charts. Not as fortunate was Ashanti and her controversy-causing Declaration, dropping from six to thirteen. Next week, we’ll find out if Coldplay’s Viva La Vida can make a run at Lil Wayne’s 2008 sales record, having already gone platinum in their native U.K.. [Photo: Getty]
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Published: 2008-06-18
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Chart Roundup
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Smoking Section: Jakob Dylan, Pharrell Williams, Eddie Vedder “Haven’t there been moments over the last few years when you asked yourself, ‘Am I seeing things?’ ” says Jakob Dylan, explaining to the Smoking Section the title of his first solo album, Seeing Things. While his Wallflowers have been on hiatus, Dylan spent 2007 visiting Rick Rubin’s studio, where he laid down minimalist acoustic tracks that deal with the darkness of these times — “Evil Is Alive and Well” and “All Day and All Night” — and more contented tunes like “Something Good This Way Comes.” “This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while, and I couldn’t be happier,” says Dylan. “It had nothing to do with clocking in or clocking out and setting up pinball machines and hiring a secretary. Rick provided the environment and offered incredibly useful judgment about where the songs were headed. It’s intangible, but Rick is right more than anybody I’ve ever worked with.” * * * * “It’s like auditory Red Bull,” Pharrell Williams tells the S.S., sitting behind a console at Electric Lady studios in Manhattan before introducing the new N.E.R.D. track “Everybody Nose,” which clocks in at a breakneck pace of 140 beats per minute. “This song’s about when all the hot chicks disappear from the dinner table — you know where they’re going.” The new N.E.R.D. disc, Seeing Sounds — their first in four years — features a cut about attention-deficit disorder (”Anti-Matter”) plus “Spaz,” which will certainly inspire clubgoers to spaz. Williams is stoked about N.E.R.D.’s slot on the Glow in the Dark Tour, launching in April, with Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco and Rihanna: “We’re gonna bring some energy to the game. It’s gonna be retarded!” * * * * It’s been said before, and the S.S. will say it again: Free the West Memphis 3! On
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Published: 2008-03-10
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Smoking Section
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