Who Charted?: Amy Lee Wipes The Floor With Brandon Flowers’ Moustache

Version 2.0 of Evanescence, led by Amy Lee and her unbridled goth-girl impulses, grabbed the No. 1 spot on this week’s Billboard 200, selling 447,000 copies of their new album The Open Door. Coming in at No. 2 were the Killers, whose everything-but-Clarence-Clemons homage to Springsteen Sam’s Town scanned 315,000 copies.

Other chart movement:

Biggest Debuts: George Strait’s It Just Comes Natural was the 30th album of his career to hit the charts, debuting at No. 3 with 232,000 sales. Beck’s tricked-out release The Information came in at No. 7, with 99,000 copies (and lots of puffy stickers) sold. That’s a lot of music bloggers, no? Monica came in right behind Beck, selling 93,000 copies of The Making of Me.

Biggest Slides: Is the world getting sick of Janet Jackson’s breasts? 20 Y.O., which was promoted with lots in the way of hoopla and little in the way of shirts, took a 74% sales hit this week–although it stayed in the top 10, with 77,000 scans being good enough to snag the No. 9 position on the chart.

Nickelback Award For Inexplicable Durability: Oklahoman “real rock” quintet Hinder took a 1% hit in sales this week, but Extreme Behavior held on to the No. 10 slot on the chart. We’ve spent too many hours in recent weeks trying to figure out just what, exactly, made these velvet-jacketed jokers such a dominant sales force. Is it the Kroeger-esque pipes possessed by lead singer Austin Winkler? The fusion of jerky lyrics with guitars that recall Creed at their peak? Or the prominent rack on Extreme Behavior‘s cover?

Evanescence Zooms By Killers To Take No. 1 [Billboard]