Beyonce's B'day (Columbia) debuted at #1 on the album chart with sales of 541,000. Audioslave's Revelations (Epic) came in at #2 with 141,817 units shifted. And check out Iron Maiden at #9 with the debut of its Sanctuary album Matter of Life and Death.

Hinder has trudged its way into the Top 10. Extreme Behavior (Universal) has been on the album chart for 31 weeks and now sits at #10 after gaining 12% over last week. (Not to be outdone, Nickelback moves to #8 from #10 after 49 weeks on the chart.)

OK Go's post-VMA ride continues with a climb to #72 froom #115. I was about to write about how Capitol must have got more CDs into the market, but then I noticed that Oh No sold over 50% of last week's total in the digital format. (It's currently the #4 digital album in the country.) The moral of this story: Capitol and EMM are losing out on sales by not getting more product into the market. The demand is obviously there. There's no reason for a rising album like that to have more than a 20% digital share last week.

The three-week Paris Hilton downward trajectory: #6 to #33 to #49. That YouTube channel is a good idea, but she needs a radio hit and her own prime time special to stop from going sub-50.

Second-week slides: The Roots fell 58%, Pete Yorn went down 57%, Young Dro was down 56%, Too Short was down 55%, Hatebreed ebbed 53%, Method Man sank 51%, Crossfade dropped 46%, Ray LaMontagne faded 44%, Jessican Simpson skidded 41% and Bob Dylan dropped only 33%.