Poison The Well's Versions debuted at #147 on the Billboard top 200, scanning over 7,823 copies and landed at #17 on the top hard music chart. Also, you can enter to win a Poison The Well/Paul Frank custom guitar right here.

Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster's new album, II, has debuted at #156 on the Billboard 200, selling 6,000 units.

Modest Mouse scores the first No. 1 album on The Billboard 200 of their career as We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank debuts on top.

Gym Class Heroes have hit #4 on the Billboard hot 100 single charts. Fall Out Boy land at #10 and Fergie "I Pee Myself" is at #1.

Billboard recently wrote an article on Say Anything's new music video for "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too," which premieres on TRL this Monday; the article also offers a little glimpse into the band's new record, In Defense of the Genre.

Congratulations to The Shins for selling 117,991 copies of their new album Wincing The Night Away and opening at No. 2 (with No. 1 being Pretty Ricky). They are No. 1 on Top Independent Albums, Top Digital Albums, Top Internet Albums and the Top Tastemakers chart, and their first single "Phantom Limb" is top 20 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart. Sub Pop Records had never opened higher than No. 79 before.

The winners of the Billboard Music Awards have been announced.

Highlights

New Artist of the Year: Chris Brown
Album of the Year: Carrie Underwood
Rock Album of the Year: Nickelback
Group of the Year: Nickelback

Below is the latest press release for Between the Buried and Me.

Press Release

Between the Buried and Me blasted their way onto the charts today when The Anatomy Of landed at #151 on the Billboard Top 200 with 6,999 sold – breaking their existing sales debuts for their previous three albums. Between the Buried and Me recorded the new album as a tribute to the rock legends that inspired them growing...[read more]

AFI moved over 200,000 units and debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts. Moreover, they received the first ever MySpace Award, which is given to a band who receives 500,000 plays in one day. For more information check out the article here.

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Billboard has posted a new article on AFI and their new album.

This past week, three Victory releases landed in the Billboard 200: Hawthorne Heights' If Only You Were Lonely came in at #3 with 114,000 copies sold, The Silence In Black and White (its 62nd straight week on the charts) came in at #144 with 7,721 sold (788,190 overall), and Bayside's new acoustic CD/DVD landed the #200 spot.

Billboard.com have posted an article on the new (as in not-recorded) Fall Out Boy album. Most of the information is old news (to regulars around here), but it appears as though the band will hit the studio this summer.

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Bleeding Through's new album, The Truth, debuted last week at #48 on the Billboard 200, was the highest ranked independent release, and was the best charting new release.

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“Student Voice” Contest Gives College Students a Chance to be Published in Billboard and on mtvU.com

New mtvU and Billboard “Student Eye” Column to be Exclusively Written by College Writers

New York, NY (November 21, 2005) – Billboard, the world’s most trusted source of music, video and...[read more]