In the first week after Labor Day, new albums and singles are starting to arrive that could define the fall shopping season. For the record industry's sake, they better be big – track sales remain down three percent this year, and album sales are down six percent, as they have been all year long.
It's tempting to look at Avenged Sevenfold's Number One debut this week – Hail to the King sold 159,000 copies – and predict some kind of hard-rock comeback. But these days, even high-profile albums by established rock stars such as Linkin Park and the Red Hot Chili Peppers tend to drop significantly after their first week on the charts.
Country albums tend to have slightly more staying power, which is probably good news for Luke Bryan's Crash My Party – although he, too, dropped to Number Two this week, selling 92,000 copies, a decline of 42 percent.
RollingStone
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