Muse, Seether hit Billboard chart

Muse, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and Seether all hit the Billboard Top 200 album chart this week with new releases. Yorke's first solo album, The Eraser, debuted at Number Two with sales of 90,000 copies, while Muse's fourth effort, Black Holes and Revelations, arrived at Number Nine with sales of 48,000, marking the British trio's best week ever on the chart. Muse drummer Dominic Howard told us that the success of the band's previous CD, 2004's Absolution, allowed them to stretch out on the new disc: "Yeah, I think Absolution, it really, in reflect it kind of gave us more time and opportunity to, like, go off and do something different this time around. It felt like we'd really kind of accomplished a point of time in the band, you know, so it was, it was definitely -- the idea for starting this new album definitely felt like we were starting from scratch in a lot of ways."

Seether's new live, acoustic CD/DVD package, One Cold Night, entered the chart at Number 50 with sales of 17,000.

Yorke has only previously made it as high as Number Three with Radiohead, on 2003's Hail To The Thief.

The week's number one album, the 22nd installment in the Now! That's What I Call Music compilation series, bowed far out in front of all other releases with first week sales of 398,000 copies.