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High School Musical 3: Senior Year enters at #2.

With first-week sales of just over 784,000, AC/DC merch and latest LP, Black Ice — which was sold exclusively in the U.S. through Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and the band's official Web site — has earned the distinction of becoming the year's best-selling rock debut, surpassing the 721,000-plus week-one sales put up by Coldplay's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends. Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, which sold over a million units its first week in stores, remains the year's best first-week seller.

Black Ice marks the band's second stint at #1 (1981's For Those About to Rock ... We Salute You reached the peak several weeks after its initial release), and the first chart-topping debut of the band's more than 30-year-career. AC/DC will also be the first band to get to get its very own version of MTV's video game "Rock Band," which is due on November 2 and will be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart/ Sam's Club for PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii.

The chart's second-biggest seller, the soundtrack to "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," enters the top 200 at #2, selling nearly 297,000 units, according to the latest sales data compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The only other new release to enter the chart's top 10 belongs to gospel duo Mary Mary, whose The Sound scanned almost 37,000 copies to bow at #7.

T.I.'s Paper Trail falls one spot to #3, selling more than 93,000 units, while Kenny Chesney's Lucky Old Sun slips three spots to #4, scanning almost 88,000 copies. Metallica's Death Magnetic follows at #5 with approximately 52,000 units scanned, while Kid Rock's Rock N Roll Jesus lands at #6 with just under 41,000 sold. Ne-Yo's Year of the Gentleman holds for a third week at #8, with more than 30,000 scans, while the self-titled debut from Jennifer Hudson, who suffered a heartbreaking family tragedy in recent days, slides four spots to #9, selling close to 29,000 units. Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III sold more than 25,000 copies, climbing two spots to #10.

Also new to next week's chart is Hank Williams III's latest, Damn Right, Rebel Proud, which enters at #18 with just under 20,000 copies snatched up, while Lee Ann Womack's Call Me Crazy debuts at #23 with nearly 17,000 sold. Escape the Fate's This War Is Ours opens at #35, with just under 13,500 sold, while Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping bows at #38. Craig Morgan's That's Why follows at #39, while folk-pop artist Brett Dennen's Hope for the Hopeless bows at #41. Calle 13's Los de Atras Vienen Conmigo makes its debut at #89, and Disciple's Southern Hospitality follows at #98.

Twilight Soundtrack Bites Into AC/DC's Billboard Reign

Vampire fans snatched up album, which features tracks by Linkin Park, Paramore, Perry Farrell and more.

After two weeks at #1, AC/DC's Black Ice — which has already broken the 1 million-sold barrier — has been bitten by the "Twilight" phenomenon.

The vampire flick opens next Friday, but before hitting the local cineplex, fans of the much-anticipated adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's novel hit their local record stores to pick up a copy of the movie's soundtrack, which features tracks by Muse, Perry Farrell, Paramore and Linkin Park.

The "Twilight" soundtrack debuts at #1 on next week's Billboard albums sales chart, having sold about 164,700 copies in its first week on store shelves. It becomes the year's third soundtrack to top the chart, following this summer's "Mamma Mia" soundtrack and the "Juno" set, which was released in 2007, but climbed to #1 in January. According to the latest sales totals compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, AC/DC's latest falls one spot to #2, with 159,500 week-three scans reported.

"Twilight" was among 17 new releases impacting next week's chart, and one of four to enter in the top 10. Following the soundtrack to "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," which holds at #3 with just under 110,000 sold, Hinder's Take It to the Limit bows at #4, after selling 81,400 units. Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli's Incanto opens at #8 with 62,200 copies scanned, and country star Brad Paisley's Play debuts at #9 with 53,700 sold.

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