Previously Coolfer had wondered how little radio support and huge Internet awareness would do for Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere. The results are in, and St. Elsewhere sold 50,000 in its first week of wide release. (It sold about 3,700 digital albums a week before the CD was released, and had a few hundred street date violations that week as well.)

That's good for #20 on this week's album chart. Color Coolfer impressed. This has been a campagin driven by the Internet, and it proved that the Internet can indeed move the units...as long as the major retail chains are on board, of course.

Terrestrial radio support will be a major factor in sustained chart position. Otherwise expect around a 40% slide in the second week.

Six albums sold over 100,000 last week, four of them debuts. Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium sold 442,000 and tops the album chart. Nick Lachey's Jive debut, What's Left of Me, moved 171,000 and sits at second. Big debuts by Jagged Edge's self-titled Columbia album and the Isley Brothers' Baby Makin' Music on Def Soul Classics did 114,000 and 111,000, respectively.

New albums by Paul Simon and Neil Young both did 60,000 in their first weeks. Given all the hoopla for Young's Living With War, 60,000 might not look that great but his fans aren't the type to rush out to midnight sales.

People were pretty impressed by Mobb Deep's 105,000 last week. How do they feel about a massive 65% slide in its second week?

Proving that hit singles don't always sell albums to match, Daniel Powter has dropped to 32 from 23 from 18 in the last three weeks (it's been out for five weeks).

A note to hipsters: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Then Sings My Soul debuted higher than did Grandaddy's Just Like the Fambly Cat.