Thrice's Beggars originally peaked on the Billboard 200 at 48 for the digital release, then fell off the chart immediately. After last week's physical release, it has charted at #47, beating its initial position by one.
Jay-Z will be No. 1 on the charts for a second week in a row, as his new album, The Blueprint 3, has added another 200k in sales to the 476k it sold last week. Kid Cudi's debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, will debut in the Top 5 with sales between the 110-120k range.
Third Eye Blind is expected to sell over 50k copies of Ursa Major this week. An interview with Stephan Jenkins discussing this and more can be read here.
Metric landed on the Billboard charts and were #1 on the Heatseekers chart before the physical release of their new record. The band sold 6,203 copies of Fantasies this past week.