Charts Godsmack'd; Presley Strong

Indulging in Godsmack is a tough habit to kick.

The Boston rockers smacked into the top of the charts with their new album, Faceless. The group's previous chart high mark came with 2000's Awake, opening its first week at number five. Faceless, however, finished the week ended Sunday at number one by moving nearly 267,000 copies, according to SoundScan figures.

Godsmack, who kicks off its world tour April 25 in Miami, benefited from live performances last week on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The band's tune "Greed" is currently serving as the soundtrack to a much-broadcasted television commercial for the Navy. Faceless' lead single, "Straight Out of Line," follows up the enormous success of "I Stand Alone" (a major radio hit off last year's The Scorpion King soundtrack), which is also included on this new CD.

Also making a big splash was Lisa Marie Presley's long-awaited debut, To Whom It May Concern, tallying 142,000 copies at number five. Empowered by much media curiosity and a relentless promotional blitz (including a Rolling Stone cover and Diane Sawyer interview) that saw Lisa Marie dishing on her marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage and her life as Elvis' kid, To Whom It May Concern enjoyed one of the best opening weeks ever for a new solo female artist. As news of her strong showing came Wednesday, she also announced plans for her first tour, slated to kick off in June.

Following at number six, urban-pop crooner Ginuwine sold 122,000 copies of his latest, Senior. Guest appearances on the album include Snoop Dogg, Method Man and, for the young ladies, Mr. Chocolate Factory himself, R. Kelly. To date, the D.C.-based Ginuwine has three double-platinum albums to his credit.

With Godsmack moving into number one, last week's top three all slid down a spot. Linkin Park's Meteora fell to second, 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' was third, and Now That's What I Call Music! 12 landed at four.

Meanwhile, despite holding steady in the seven slot, Cher's Very Best of Cher did 11 percent better business than the previous week, moving 123,000 copies on the strength of her highly rated NBC special.

Other Top 10 holdovers didn't fare as well: Celine Dion's One Heart and Norah Jones' Come Away with Me fell four spots each, to numbers eight and nine, respectively.

Evanescence's Fallen, a Top 10 mainstay since debuting six weeks back, dropped one spot to 10. A more significant dip might be coming. The band members gave a cuss-filled Entertainment Weekly interview that purposely distanced themselves and their music from their Christian roots (in a twist, they called their earlier faith-promoting remarks youthful indiscretions). The backlash was immediate: The group's new album has been pulled off all Christian radio and from all Christian bookstores, where the album had been a top seller.

For now, though, the chart's big loser is the White Stripes. A week after the Top 10 debut of Elephant, the duo's disc dropped nearly 50 percent, falling seven spots to number 13 with sales of just 61,000.

Just missing the Top 10, James Taylor's Best of James Taylor sold 73,000 copies to open at 11. His previous studio album, October Road, had a much stronger showing, opening at number four last August with sales of 154,000.

As repackaging current releases appears the trend of-the hour (watch for 50 Cent's new CD/DVD reissue next week), Jay-Z debuted at 17 with his The Blueprint 2.1. The new version includes two bonus tracks, while trimming away weaker songs that appeared on the original. Following right behind at 18 was alt-country star Lucinda Williams' latest, World Without Tears. Scarface charted at 20 with his unconventionally titled Balls & My Word.

Elsewhere on the charts, New Zealand Christian rockers the Newsboys sold 31,000 copies of Adoration: Worship Album at 33, the Jayhawks hit 51 with Rainy Day Music, Boomkat's Boomkatalog One debuted at 88, Abk's Hatchet Warrior opened at 98, Yo La Tengo's Summer Sun came in at 115, Point of Grace's retrospective 24 landed at 138, and pop-punk rockers Lagwagon opened Blaze at 172.

As tabulated by SoundScan, the Top 10 albums for the week ended April 13 were:

1. Faceless, Godsmack
2. Meteora, Linkin Park
3. Get Rich or Die Tryin', 50 Cent
4. Now That's What I Call Music! 12, various
5. To Whom It May Concern, Lisa Marie Presley
6. Senior, Ginuwine
7. Very Best of Cher, Cher
8. One Heart, Celine Dion
9. Come Away with Me, Norah Jones
10. Fallen, Evanescence