Numbers are in...

[EmpyreLounge44]

http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/

VAN HALEN's two-CD retrospective, "The Best Of Both Worlds", has sold 138,284 copies in the U.S. during its first week of release to debut at position No. 2 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart according to Nielsen SoundScan.

[Warham]

So it's actually less than what's been posted before.

[EmpyreLounge44]

yeah not a bad first week though considering the market but not a strong showing at all in the first week. the ashley simpson # is just disgusting

[EAST COAST]

best of volume 1 debuted at number 1, without a tour.. what does that tell you fat boy fans, you still must sit in the back of the bus.

[Warham]

Not to mention BOV1 sold around 233,000 copies.

[EmpyreLounge44]

tells me that it was a stupid idea to put out a best of volume 2 with more than half of it being best of volume 1. really dont think it has anything to do with singers

[Warham]

I see that Jimmy Buffett finished #2 this week.

1 SIMPSON*ASHLEE - AUTOBIOGRAPHY 398493
2 BUFFETT*JIMMY - LICENSE TO CHILL 147943
3 VAN HALEN - BEST OF BOTH WORLDS 138284
4 USHER - CONFESSIONS 113050
5 WILSON*GRETCHEN - HERE FOR THE PARTY 88816
6 BANKS*LLOYD - HUNGER FOR MORE 88283
7 LAVIGNE*AVRIL - UNDER MY SKIN 87455
8 PRINCE - MUSICOLOGY 79157
9 BIG & RICH - HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR 74488
10 CINDERELLA STORY SOUNDTRACK 71276

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[Figs]

Originally posted by EmpyreLounge44
tells me that it was a stupid idea to put out a best of volume 2 with more than half of it being best of volume 1. really dont think it has anything to do with singers

It was stupid to put out a similar "best of" collection. It has a little to do with singers too because of the new songs. If they were any good they would push sales.

[Starwood]

Yeah. But they've "matured" as songwriters, right?

[EmpyreLounge44]

see i like the sam years but i went to Itunes to get the new songs...not going to spend the money to buy stuff I already have.

[EmpyreLounge44]

yup its officially number 3

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000588138

Sales of last week's No. 1, Jimmy Buffett's "License to Chill" (Mailboat/RCA), fell 38% to 148,000 copies, forcing it down to No. 2. Veteran rock act Van Halen's Warner Bros. compilation "The Best of Both Worlds" enters the tally at No. 3 with sales of 138,000 copies. The set pulls together highlights of the band's run with singer David Lee Roth and his replacement, Sammy Hagar.

The band's previous greatest hits project, "Best of Volume 1," debuted at No. 1 in 1996 with 233,000 copies, and has sold 3 million copies to date. Van Halen recently reunited with Hagar to launch a summer tour that plays the first of two shows in St. Louis tonight (July 28).