SOUNDSCAN Report: P.O.D., SWORN ENEMY, SCARLET, NASUM, CATHEDRAL

February 1, 2006

In what has to considered a significant disappointment for both the band and their label, P.O.D.'s new album, "Testify" (Atlantic) has sold just over 54,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 9 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart.

"Testify" is the follow-up to "Payable on Death", which opened with 106,000 copies back in November 2003 to debut at No. 9 on The Billboard 200. Other notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending January 29, 2006, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all figures are rounded to the nearest thousand, except numbers under 1,000, which are rounded to the nearest hundred):

SWORN ENEMY – "The Beginning of the End": 2,000
SCARLET – "This Was Always Meant To Fall Apart": 1,000
NASUM - Grind Finale: 700
CATHEDRAL – "The Garden of Unearthly Delights": 400
WATERDOWN – "All Riot": 300
GOREFEST - "La Muerte": 100

Find more on

Prev More News Next

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).