Queens of The Stone Age earn first No. 1 album on Billboard with ‘...Like Clockwork’

Queens of the Stone Age finally earned their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart this week with ...Like Clockwork.  It was also the first No. 1 for their record label, Matador Records.

Billboard reported that ...Like Clockwork only sold 91,000 copies in its first week, based on Nielsen SoundScan numbers.

Interestingly, vinyl sales made up a significant chunk of ...Like Clockwork’s total sales, with 12,000 LPs sold. That’s the second biggest sales week for a vinyl release since January 2010, only trailing Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. That album sold 19,000 LPs in its first week.

...Like Clockwork is Queens of the Stone Age’s first album since 2007’s Era Vulgaris, which debuted at No. 14. Their 2005 album Lullabies of Paralyze reached No. 5 with 97,000 copies sold.

Last week's No. 1, Random Access Memories, fell to No. 2 with 62,000 copies sold this past week. It's up to 494,000 copies so far.

The No. 3 spot is held by Sleeping with Sirens' Feel. It sold 59,000 copies and gave the group its best sales week ever. Their last album, 2011's Let's Cheer only hit No. 17.

Blake Shelton's Based on the True Story rose to No. 4 (36,000 copies), while Darius Rucker's True Belivers was at No. 6 (33,000).

The rest of the Top 10 includes Megadeth's Super Collider (29,000); Imagine Dragons' Night Visions (28,000); Florida Georgia Line's Here's to the Good Times (28,000); Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience (27,000) and Barenaked Ladies' Grinning Streak (26,000).

Robin Thicke's “Blurred Lines” single topped the Digital Songs Chart again with 315,000 downloads in the past week.

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