America's ready for new Idols
With the Shins and Arcade Fire merely debuting at #2 on the Billboard 200, maybe it takes the showmanship of self-mutilation to make it to #1. Modest Mouse take it to the limit (via Billboard): Modest Mouse scores the first No. 1 album on The Billboard 200 of its career this week as "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" debuts on top. The Epic set moved 129,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, more than double the group's previous best sales week. Modest Mouse's last album, 2004's "Good News for People Who Love Bad News," debuted at No. 19 with 68,000.
