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Album Sales -- Disturbed, Lyfe Jennings + More

Disturbed turn the top of the Billboard 200 album chart into an 'Asylum' with their new album of the same name selling 179,000 copies this week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

It's the Chicago-based hard rock band's fourth straight studio album to reach the top of the charts, and finds the band delving into darker, more in-depth subject matter such as war crimes, the West Memphis Three, and, on lead single 'Another Way to Die,' humankind's destructive effects on the planet.

The 'Now 35' singles compilation is the second of five new entries onto this week's Top 10, hitting No. 2 with sales of 105,000 units. R&B singer Lyfe Jennings debuts at No. 6 with 'I Still Believe,' his fourth and -- if you can believe what any young, popular artist ever says about retirement (which you can't) -- last album ever. Jennings has stated that he will now focus on his family and work, but behind the scenes in the music industry.

Close behind we find the Goo Goo Dolls, who end a four year drought of new material with their new record, 'Something for the Rest of Us' and quite happily find 34,000 fans still love them enough to get them to No. 7 in their first week.

However, even that gap is nothing compared to classic rock radio warriors Heart, who end a 20-year absence from the Top 10 by selling 27,000 copies of their new album 'Red Velvet Car.'

So who's left? Eminem, of course, with 'Recovery' staying amazingly strong at No. 3 with 93,000 sold, keeping him just ahead of Katy Perry and last week's champ, 'Teenage Dream,' which slips three spots to No. 4 on sales of 88,000.

Fantasia drops three spots in her second week on the charts, with 'Back to Me' moving another 40,000 records and settling in quite nicely in its new home at No. 5. Meanwhile, 31,000 new "Beliebers" (and yes, we've been waiting all week to use that) pick up Justin Bieber's 'My World 2.0' to keep their hero on the charts at No. 8, just ahead of 'Camp Rock 2: the Final Jam' at No. 9, with 28,000 sold.

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