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Zeppelin: How the Charts Were Won
It's been a long time, but Zeppelin still knows how to rock 'n' roll...at least at the cash registers.
Led Zeppelin's new three-CD live set, How the West Was Won, just became the group's sixth album to top the charts, a feat nearly a quarter-century in the making. Zeppelin, which broke up 23 years ago following the death of drummer John Bonham, last topped the charts in 1979 with In Through the Out Door and previously issued just one official live album, 1976's The Song Remains the Same. Zep's hugely anticipated new live offering cobbles together material from 1972 shows at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena in anticipation of Houses of the Holy.
How the West Was Won moved 154,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to SoundScan numbers. The related two-disc Led Zeppelin DVD likewise topped the video sales chart with almost 120,000 copies sold. This sets a new record for music video sales, nearly doubling the previous record owned by Paul McCartney's Back in the U.S.
As Zep won the West and the charts, last week's one-two punch, Staind's 14 Shades of Grey and the Deftones' Deftones, dropped to seven and 11, respectively.
The hip-hop driven 2 Fast 2 Furious soundtrack--featuring contributions by Fat Joe, Dead Prez and film costar Ludacris--proved the only other Top 10 debut, selling 76,000 copies at number eight. The film races into theaters this weekend.
The rest were all holdovers: 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' at two, Evanescence's Fallen at three, Kelly Clarkson's Thankful at four, Norah Jones' Come Away with Me at five, The Lizzie McGuire Movie soundtrack at six, Cher's The Very Best of at eight and The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack at 10.
Elsewhere on the charts, Tijuana-born, San Diego-raised singer Frankie J, formerly a vocalist for the Grammy-nominated group A.B. Quintanilla y Los Kumbia Kings, bowed at 53 with his major label solo debut, What's A Man to Do? O.A.R. (short for Of A Revolution), the onetime Ohio State frat band turned Midwest rock faves, followed one spot behind with In Between Now and Then.
With their album St. Anger moved up five days to battle piracy and stoke the hype machine, Metallica should dominate the charts next week over new releases by Jewel, Train and Sugar Ray.
To recap, the Top 10 albums for the week ended June 1, 2003, were as follows:
1. How the West Was Won, Led Zeppelin
2. Get Rich or Die Tryin', 50 Cent
3. Fallen, Evanescence
4. Thankful, Kelly Clarkson
5. Come Away with Me, Norah Jones
6. The Lizzie McGuire Movie soundtrack, various
7. 14 Shades of Grey, Staind
8. 2 Fast 2 Furious soundtrack, various
9. The Very Best of Cher, Cher
10. The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, various
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