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"Well, Amy Lee&amp;apos;s pain is still a big seller, according to this week&amp;apos;s charts anyway, which have Evanescence scoring a seriously big Number One debut. The band&amp;apos;s new album, Open Door, (read the Rob Sheffield-penned Rolling Stone review here) sold 447,342 copies in its first week, beating the Killers&amp;apos; second album, Sam&amp;apos;s Town, by more than 100,00 copies. The Killers&amp;apos; new album has received slams in this magazine and in other publications (like the New York Times), but according to frontman Brandon Flowers it&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;one of the best albums of the last 20 years&amp;quot; and at least 314,788 people think he&amp;apos;s onto something, as the record sold that many copies and secured the Number Two spot in its first week on the charts.\r\nFans may be having too much fun with Beck&amp;apos;s multimedia art project of a record for those U.K. chart-bosses, but here in the States Information debuted at Number Seven, selling 99,481 copies in its first week on the charts. Indie rock continued to triumph this week with the Decemberists&amp;apos; Crane Wife making an impressive debut at Number 35, selling 26,226 copies.\r\nNow here&amp;apos;s your directive: Go out and buy boatloads of copies of the Hold Steady&amp;apos;s new record, Boys and Girls in America, just like those scientologists reportedly did with Tom Cruise&amp;apos;s Vanity Fair cover. If they can use guerrilla methods to make sure their guy sells, we can do the same for the Brooklyn-based Twins fans. Cuz we can&amp;apos;t have that record wallowing down at 124, where it debuted. The world would be a sad and dark place in that case."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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