The Smashing Pumpkins debuted at No. 2 this week with 145,000 copies sold, Interpol debuted at No. 4 with 73,000 copies sold, Spoon hit No. 10 with 46,000, Bad Religion was No. 35 with 21,000 and Danzig at No. 164 with 4,600.

Circa Survive debuted at number twenty-four on the Billboard charts this week selling over 24,000 copies of their new full-length release, On Letting Go. The album is available in-stores now via Equal Vision Records.

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PlayRadioPlay's self-produced and self-recorded The Frequency EP has debuted at number 6 on Billboard's Electronica Chart, 1 spot ahead of Dntel's new album.

Click here to check out a recent Billboard.com article about Lifetime and why they tour in short bursts, as opposed to full-scale touring.

The Chariot's new album The Fiancée sold close to 7,000 copies it's first week, placing themselves #169 on the Billboard Chart.

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.

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.

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 up, paying homage to legends like Metallica, Pink Floyd, Queen, King Crimson and Smashing Pumpkins on The Anatomy Of. Metal radio taste-makers are raving about the new album, which picked up #2 Most Added at FMQB’s Metal Dectector and #3 Most Added at CMJ Loud Rock. Between the Buried and Me...

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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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.

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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