EVANESCENCE Tops BILLBOARD Album Chart
October 11, 2006EVANESCENCE's "The Open Door" has sold 447,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release to land at the top of next week's The Billboard 200 chart.
EVANESCENCE recorded "The Open Door" while dealing with its guitarist having a stroke, a legal battle with its former manager, and singer Amy Lee's public break-up with SEETHER's Shaun Morgan. Then just as the project was completed, bassist Will Boyd decided it was time for him to exit. Lee told Launch she was saddened but not totally surprised by Boyd's departure. "Will had been sort of estranged 'cause he'd been doing a lot of stuff at home, and kind of getting comfortable staying close to home and feeling like the closer tour got, the less he wanted to go," she said. "I get it, he just didn't want to do the big, crazy, sacrifice your life tour again. We all understand that, we all get sick of tour sometimes. But that's just who Will is. He's kind of a homebody and I love him."
The group recently recruited THE REVOLUTION SMILE bassist Tim McCord to replace Boyd.
EVANESCENCE appeared on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" on October 2 to perform the album's first single, "Call Me When You're Sober".
EVANESCENCE's major label debut, "Fallen", has sold 6.58 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending October 8, 2006, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all CD figures are rounded to the nearest thousand, except numbers under 4,000, which are rounded to the nearest hundred; The Billboard 200 chart position included, where applicable):
AMON AMARTH – "With Oden on Our Side": 3,400
INTO ETERNITY – "The Scattering of Ashes": 2,000
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