Lacuna Coil make chart debut

Blue October and Lacuna Coil are among the rock acts making debuts this week on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. Blue October's fourth album, Foiled, entered the chart at Number 29 with sales of nearly 33,000 copies, while Lacuna Coil's Karmacode debuted one slot above at Number 28 with almost 34,000 copies shifted. Blue October took its time making the follow-up to 2003's History For Sale, but frontman Justin Furstenfeld told us that he needed the space: "When it was over with, touring for two-and-a-half years for that album, I needed to go away and just write, and there was so much inside of me that I needed to get down. So, no, the timing was perfect. If we would have done it any earlier or later, it would not have come out great. I really needed to take that time to get focused on where my brain was, and then write the album that was going on in my head and in my heart."

In other chart news, Morrissey's eighth solo album, Ringleader Of The Tormentors, slipped in just ahead of Lacuna Coil at Number 27 with literally six more copies sold.

The Vines fizzled at Number 136, selling just 7,800 copies of their third record, Vision Valley.

The most surprising rock debuts on the chart were from veteran acts Queensryche and Poison. Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime II, the sequel to the band's successful 1988 concept album, sold nearly 44,000 copies to debut at Number 14, the group's best showing in more than a decade. Meanwhile, The Best of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock, opened at Number 17 with sales of almost 40,000 copies.
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