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Beyoncé's "B'Day" Bashes Chart
Call it the icing on the cake.
Beyoncé Knowles' B'Day celebrated its berth in stores by debuting atop the album charts, selling a massive 541,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan figures released Wednesday.
The album, appropriately released worldwide on Sept. 4, Knowles' 25th birthday (it was released a day later in the U.S.), shunted aside last week's chart champ Bob Dylan and fended off Audioslave's latest to record the third-largest sales week of the year. Rascal Flatts' Me & My Gang leads the 2006 weekly list with 722,000 copies, followed by Tool's 10,000 Days with 564,000 copies.
B'Day's lead radio single, the Rodney Jerkins-produced "Deja Vu," which once again pairs her with boyfriend Jay-Z (who apparently forgot about his retirement and also cameos on the track "Upgrade U"), actually slipped a spot to number two behind the Janet Jackson-Nelly collaboration, "Call on Me." Beyoncé and Jay-Z previously teamed up on her first solo single, "Crazy in Love," and on the Kanye West-produced " '03 Bonnie & Clyde" from Jay's The Blueprint 2.
This marks the second straight solo chart-topper for Knowles, following her 2003 post-Destiny's Child smash, Dangerously in Love. That album went on to win five Grammys, tying a record for most in a single year by a female artist. Knowles will have another shot at the top of the charts in December, as part of the cast album for the big-screen adaptation of the Tony-winning Dreamgirls.
Audioslave's Revelations didn't put up much competition for the number one slot, but still sold a respectable 142,000 copies at number two. The Grammy-nominated group is currently in FM rotation with "Original Fire," which has burned up rock radio and even crept onto the pop-driven Hot 100 chart.
In 2002, Audioslave opened at number two with their self-titled debut, while their sophomore disc, Out of Exile, topped the charts with a more impressive 263,000 first-week copies.
With new entries taking over the top spots, Dylan's Modern Times dropped to number three in its second week. The disc, which made Dylan the only living artist with a 30-year span between number one albums, sold another 128,000 copies.
Cracking the Top 10 for the first time in its three-decade career, Iron Maiden debuted at nine with A Matter of Life and Death, which sold 56,000 copies. The album topped the charts in nine different European countries.
After 31 weeks of release, Hinder's Extreme Behavior entered the Top 10 at 10, selling more than 53,000 copies last week for a total of 609,000. The Oklahoma hard rock band benefits from its pop ballad hit, "Lips of an Angel."
The remaining Top 10, all holdovers, included Danity Kane's self-titled at four, Cheetah Girls 2 soundtrack at five, Christina Aguilera's Back to Basics at six, Jessica Simpson's A Public Affair at seven and Nickelback's All the Right Reasons at eight.
Panic! At the Disco, who got a bounce from a Video of the Year win at the MTV Music Awards, climbed six spots to 15 with A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. In its 39th week, the disc sold another 37,000 copies, bringing its total to 1.17 million.
Other noteworthy debuts included Jars of Clay's Good Monsters at 58, The Essential Alice in Chains at 139 and Aaron Tippin: Now & Then at 162.
Here's a recap of the Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday:
1. B'Day, Beyoncé
2. Revelations, Audioslave
3. Modern Times, Bob Dylan
4. Danity Kane, Danity Kane
5. Cheetah Girls 2 soundtrack, various
6. Back to Basics, Christina Aguilera
7. A Public Affair, Jessica Simpson
8. All the Right Reasons, Nickelback
9. A Matter of Life and Death, Iron Maiden
10. Extreme Behavior, Hinder
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