Album Chart: Dave Matthews Band is 'King' of the heap
"Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King," the latest album from the Dave Matthews Band [ tickets ], bows at No. 1 on the US album chart after moving about 424,000 copies during its first week in stores.
The strong first-week sales figure is the third-highest of the year, behind Eminem [ tickets ]'s "Relapse" (608,000 copies) and U2's "No Line on the Horizon" (484,000 copies), according to Nielsen SoundScan retail figures as reported by Billboard.
Meanwhile, after spending two weeks in the top slot...
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