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The new Volcano/ZLG disc bows with 553k in first week sales, just a scant 2,000 less than its predecessor, which went on to sell 2.3 million to date.

TOOL TIME!!

Volcano/ZLG Band's First Album in Five Years Is Top Rock Release of 2006
It hasn’t been 10,000 Days since the last Tool album... it just seems that long.

Maynard James Keenan and company return to the top spot of the HITS’ album chart this week after almost five years to the day after the chart-topping debut of Lateralus. The new Volcano/ZLG disc bows with 553k in first week sales, just a scant 2,000 less than its predecessor, which went on to sell 2.3 million to date.

J/RMG’s self-titled Pearl Jam album marks an impressive comeback for the pioneering Seattle grunge-rockers, with a #2 debut and 281k sold, dwarfing both their last studio album, ‘02’s Riot Act, which moved 166k and 500k overall, and its ’03 Road Dogs, a collection of B-sides and rarities that scored 89.5k in first-week sales, for a to-date total of 363k.

Veteran G-Unit/Interscope rappers Mobb Deep make their debut for 50 Cent’s label with 108k, good for #3.

Atlantic’s Jewel (#8) and RLG’s Phil Vassar (#10) are the other two Top 10 newcomers, with Walt Disney RecordsHigh School Musical (#4), Lyric Street’s Rascal Flatts (#5), last week’s #1, Republic/Universal’s Godsmack (#6), UTV’s Now 21 (#7) and Columbia’s Bruce Springsteen (#9).

Other chart debuts include Island/IDJ’s Thursday (#17), Interscope’s Wolfmother (#25), Big Vin RecordsRebel Meets Rebel, a collaboration between country singer David Allen Coe and ex-Pantera Vinnie Paul (#36) and Capitol’s Poison Best of (#49).

Virgin’s K.T. Tunstall leads the way for the gainers with a whopping 98% increase (#50-27) after the song “Black Horse & a Cherry Tree” was performed on American Idol. Other double-digit rises are registered by Universal’s Chamillionaire (#24, +11%), Geffen’s Mary J. Blige (#36-31, +26%), A&M/Interscope’s Pussycat Dolls (#32, +11%), Island/IDJ’s Johnny Cash compilation (#34, +10%) and Reprise’s Michael Buble (#35, +30%).

Next week, look for WB’s Red Hot Chili Peppers to vie for the #1 spot, with chart debuts from Jive’s Nick Lachey, Columbia’s Jagged Edge, Columbia’s Harry Connick Jr. and Def Soul’s Isley Brothers.

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