Matchbox Twenty Gets First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart

As expected, pop/rock band Matchbox Twenty scores its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as its new “North” album debuts with 95,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. It’s the group’s first full-length studio album since 2002′s “More Than You Think You Are,” which debuted and peaked at No. 6 off a 178,000 launch.

Since then, the act released an EP in 2003 (aptly titled “EP”) which went to No. 43 and a greatest hits package in 2007 titled “Exile On Mainstream.” The latter bowed and peaked at No. 3, starting with 131,000.

The group’s breakthrough debut album, 1996′s “Yourself Or Someone Like You,” topped out at No. 5 on the chart the following year, but spent a whopping 119 weeks on the tally. In 2000, the act issued its second set, “Mad Season,” which reached No. 3 and earned its best single sales week — when it started with 365,000.

The new album was led by the single “She’s So Mean,” which became the group’s 13th top 10 hit on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart (known as Adult Top 40 on Billboard.biz). This week “Mean” holds for a third straight week at No. 8 — its so-far peak. READ MORE

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