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Only Marilyn Manson can turn something grotesque into chart gold.
The infamous shock-rocker scared up his second career number one debut with The Golden Age of Grotesque, which also topped charts in Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Manson previously owned the top spot in 1998 with Mechanical Animals. (His 2000 release, Holy Wood, however, opened down at number 13, thanks to stiff competition from the Beatles, Ricky Martin, Sade, the Offspring and a Now That's What I Call Music! compilation, as well as the now standard boycott by Wal-Mart and Kmart stores.)
Golden Age of Grotesque sold just north of 118,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to SoundScan numbers, making this 2003's lowest-selling chart-topping debut to date. Still, it was enough to dethrone last week's chart champs, the Isley Brothers, whose Body Kiss plummeted all the way down to the 10 spot in its second week.
Jacksonville's Cold scored the week's other Top 10 debut with its third album, Year of the Spider, selling 101,000 copies at number three. Originally discovered by Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, Cold recently landed mainstage honors for this summer's revived Lollapalooza tour.
Thanks to a record-setting box-office take over the weekend, The Matrix Reloaded saw its soundtrack get a three-spot boost, selling 96,000 copies at number five. Though nearly three weeks old at the theaters, The Lizzie McGuire Movie also saw upward movement for its soundtrack, which climbed two spots to number eight. The film itself placed fifth in the latest box-office tally.
The rest of the Top 10 were holdovers: 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' at two, Evanescence's Fallen at four, Norah Jones' Come Away with Me at six, Kelly Clarkson's Thankful at seven and Cher's The Very Best of Cher at nine.
Just missing the Top 10, one-time radio powerhouse Third Eye Blind debuted at 12 moving nearly 63,000 copies of Out of the Vein. Chicago indie rockers Alkaline Trio scored an impressive number 20 bow as their second Vagrant Records' release, Good Mourning, sold more than 40,000 copies.
Other Top 200 debuts included Marco Antonio Solis at 59 with Tu Amor O Tu Desprecio and the ESPN Stadium Anthems collection--featuring a laundry list of sporting event sing-a-longs, including, of course, "Who Let the Dogs Out"-- which sold 6,000 copies to open at 149 thanks to an endless array of late-night direct-response TV ads.
Here are the Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday:
1. The Golden Age of Grotesque, Marilyn Manson
2. Get Rich or Die Tryin', 50 Cent
3. Year of the Spider, Cold
4. Fallen, Evanescence
5. The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, various
6. Come Away with Me, Norah Jones
7. Thankful, Kelly Clarkson
8. The Lizzie McGuire Movie soundtrack, various
9. The Very Best of Cher, Cher
10. Body Kiss, Isley Brothers
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