AFI – 182,337
Angels & Airwaves – 34,445
Panic! At The Disco – 34,399
Blue October – 23,742
Buckcherry – 19,020
Live – 18,008

Alternative rockers AFI hold the #1 position on Billboard with first week sales of 182,337.

Los Angeles glam act Buckcherry jumps to 19k this week. The band released their self titled debut in 1999 to critical praise and wrote 3 big hits including Lit Up, Check Your Head, and For The Movies. Their follow up album Time Bomb in 2001 flopped and everybody abandoned them. They came back with a third record Fifteen (Eleven Seven Music) wrote another big hit “Crazy Bitch” landing in the top 50. This was organic without the major label marketing hype. Lava/Atlantic didn’t pick up the band until the track was a proven hit. This is proof that a great song will break the political barriers….sooooo stop complaining and blaming majors labels and starting writing “great” songs that people actually want to buy.