INTERSCOPE NAILS TOP TWO BOWS WITH "TRIBUTE," BIZKIT
Limp Bizkit has a hand in what will be next week's two largest debuts on the HITS Top 50 album chart.
The band appears on the highly anticipated America: A Tribute To Heroes album performing Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" with the Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik, and in a remixed fashion on the fashionable remix album, New Old Songs. Both records are on Interscope.
Based on first-day sales from retailers around the country, the all-star tribute record will sell in the 150k range, landing it in next week's Top 10. The two-disc set includes tracks from Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Billy Joel, Enrique Iglesias, U2, Alicia Keys and Sheryl Crow, among others, from the live concert that took place less than two weeks after the Sept. 11 tragedy. Proceeds are being earmarked for victims. Last week's Concert For New York City on Columbia Records, bowed at #24 with almost 100k sold.
Limp Bizkit's remix album appears to be headed upwards of 125k, which should have it knocking on the Top 10 door. The album features some of the band's biggest hits reworked by the likes of Timbaland, the Neptunes, P. Diddy, Method Man, Bubba Sparxxx, Everlast, Butch Vig and William Orbit.
Meanwhile, at the top, Creed's Weathered (Wind-up) looks to run the table until the end of the year in the #1 spot, though the gap between it and Virgin's Now Vol. 8 continues to shrink as a dogfight looms over the next few weeks.
