Papa Roach debuts in Top 20

Papa Roach's new album, The Paramour Sessions, debuted at Number 16 on the Billboard Top 200 on Wednesday, September 20th, selling 37,000 copies in its first week of release. It was also Papa Roach's fourth consecutive Top 20 debut, although the sales are less than the 52,000 copies that 2004's Getting Away With Murder sold in its first week. Singer Jacoby Shaddix told us that the band worked harder on this album than any of its previous efforts: "We definitely pushed it as far as we could go, you know, because we were living in this house, and it was like we just got deeper into the layers of ourselves, and there were moments, you know, when we were having these jam sessions that would last, like, six to eight hours long, and we have never jammed like that in the 13 years we've been together. It definitely opened up a new creative force within our band and, like, it was just naked and fearless."

The members of Papa Roach lived together in a house in Hollywood for several months while writing and recording The Paramour Sessions.

In other chart debuts, the Mars Volta entered at Number Nine with Amputechture selling 59,000 copies, while Black Label Society's Shot To Hell sold 32,000 copies to land at Number 21.

Papa Roach will team up with H.I.M., Lostprophets and Kill Hannah this fall on an 11-date tour dubbed No Sleep Till Halloween, beginning on October 18th in Lowell, Massachusetts.

The band will also headline the 2006 Zippo Hot Tour in November, with dates and cities yet to be announced.
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