DISTURBED SEEK ASYLUM AT #1

Veteran Chicago hardcore band Disturbed offer concrete proof the inmates have taken over the Asylum.

The band’s new Reprise album of the same name, its fifth overall, looks headed to a chart-topping debut on next week’s HITS Top 50, with a total that should be between 145-160k.

That should be enough to unseat this week’s #1 album, Katie Perry’s Teenage Dream, according to those music retailers who haven’t conveniently forgotten our e-mail, fax and phone numbers.

While it remains to be seen how the Labor Day weekend will affect sales, it looks like Capitol/EMI’s Now 35 will score in the 105-115k range.

Asylum’s Lyfe Jennings is the next-highest newcomer, with 35-45k predicted for the R&B crooner’s fourth album, I Still Believe.  

Warner Bros. veteran rockers Goo Goo Dolls return with their ninth album, Something for the Rest of Us, and first since 2006, on target for 30-40k, while

Sony Legacy’s Heart album, Red Velvet Car, is in the 25-30k range

Universal Republic’s Knoxville, TN, rock band 10 Years is back with their fifth album, Feeding the Wolves, looking at a first-week total of 15-20k, the same total expected for Lost Highway Oscar-winning songwriter Ryan Bingham’s Junky Star.

Eleven Seven Inland Empire metal vets Papa Roach return with the aptly titled Time for Annihilation, which is eyeing 15-18k in first-week sales.

The market was up 1% vs. last week, down 12% vs. same week last year and still down 12% year to date.

You may return to fantasizing how exactly Paris Hilton smuggles cocaine onto international airline flights.