Four years after releasing their debut album Maroon 5 score a number one album. Their album “It Won’t Be Soon Before Long” sold 429,000 copies in the week ended May 28, according to Nielsen SoundScan data. One reason for this is the popularity of their song “Makes Me Wonder” which is currently also number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

The group sold 102,000 copies of its new album digitally, breaking a record set last week when rock band Linkin Park’s “Minutes to Midnight” moved 84,000 via that format to debut at No. 1. The latter album fell to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 198,000, a hefty 68 percent sales slide.

Osbourne flew in at No. 3 with “Black Rain,” which sold 152,000 copies. That’s only 1,000 fewer than the opening week for 2001’s “Down to Earth,” which entered at No. 4. Nearly a quarter of sales for “Black Rain” came from digital retailers, which offered early ticketing to this summer’s Ozzfest with pre-orders for the limited edition of the album.

(WENN)

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