PARK AND RIDE!

Let the Suns shine in.

Despite a total nearly 400k below the debut of its 2007 album, Warner Bros.’ rockers Linkin Park bow at #1 on this week’s HITS chart, with 254k in sales for their fourth album, A Thousand Suns.

That’s enough to turn back Atlantic R&B crooner Trey Songz’ Passion Pain & Pleasure, which lands at #2 with 244k in its first week.

Shady/Aftermath/Interscope’s dominant Eminem album Recovery is #3, up 10% thanks to VMA exposure, and now closing in on 2.6 million in sales as well as the #1 spot over Lady Antebellum for 2010’s best-selling release.

Mercury Nashville’s highly touted Jamey Johnson debuts at #4 with his critically acclaimed double-album Guitar Song, followed by another pair of new entries in Rounder recording artist Robert Plant’s Band of Joy (#5) and Weezer’s Epitaph indie bow, Hurley (#6).

Island/IDJ’s Brandon Flowers solo debut, Flamingo, is the other Top 10 newcomer at #8.

Capitol/EMI’s Now 35 (#7) and Katy Perry (#9), along with Island/IDJ’s Justin Bieber My World 2.0 (#10), round out the Top 10.

Other chart entries are registered by Capitol/EMI’s Now Country 3 (#21), Universal Republic Godsmack frontman Sully Erna’s Avalon (#27), Hear Music’s John Lennon Starbucks exclusive (#38) and Peak’s Will Downing (#41).

Interscope’s Lady Gaga Fame Monster EP (#44) and Columbia’s Glee, the Music Vol. 1 (#47) both re-enter the Top 50.

The week’s biggest gainer is Universal Republic’s Florence + the Machine, moving #45-14, +162%, thanks to her show-stopping VMA performance of “Dog Days Are Over.”

Ahead of this week’s heavily publicized season premiere, Columbia’s Glee, The Music Vol. 3 Showstoppers moves #41-30, +46%, while LaFace/JLG’s Usher expanded edition of Raymond vs Raymond also makes an upward move, #29-26, +24%.

Rounding out the week’s double-digit gainers are Atlantic’s B.o.B (#37-36, +13%) and LaFace/JLG’s Usher remix album, Versus (#16, +12%).

Hitting retail this week are Atlantic’s Zac Brown Band, A&M/Octone’s Maroon 5, Columbia’s John Legend and the Roots, Hollywood’s Selena Gomez, Arista/RMG’s Santana, Mercury Nashville’s Billy Currington, Reprise’s Serj Tankian and Island Def Jam’s My Darkest Days.