Honestly, I hadn't heard the word Incubus in what seems like eons. The band still has a good core group of fans, though, because its album Light Grenades (Epic) debuted at #1 by selling 164,000. If any album is destined for a 60% second-week fade, it's this one. The only other debut in the Top 20 was Clipse's Hell Hath No Fury (Re-Up/Jive). The Neptunes-produced album sold 78,000 in its first week. Reviews have been excellent and there's a good chance it will have a lighter-than-average fade next week.

Sarah McLachlan's Wintersong (Arista) rose 38% and now sits at #7. It has sold 346,000 in seven weeks. A few weeks back, Bob Lefsetz pronounced McLachlan to be over. At the time her album was starting slowly and was down further in the charts. Lefsetz made the mistake of seasonal ignorance. Wintersong is a Christmas album. Like other Christmas albums, Wintersong has been steadily rising up the chart. Clive Davis isn't trying to teach Terry McBride a lesson, as Lefsetz posited. The fact is that holiday albums peak late in the year. Christmas albums by Wynnona, Aly & AJ and James Taylor have had similar upward trends.

As for last week's top album, Jay-Z's Kingdom Come (Def Jam), it dropped an amazing 79% and fell to 139,000 units after selling 680,000 in its first week. This time last week people were saying that Jay-Z is back. Obviously that was premature. Granted, first week sales were boosted by Black Friday shopping sprees, but 79%?!

Second-week fades: Jay-Z sank 79% (I think that's a 2006 second-week fade record), Tupac skidded 67%, Snoop Dogg fell 66%, Killswitch Engage fell 64%, Brand New sank 63%, U2 fell 56%, RBD sank 54%, Daughtry dropped 49%, Now 23 dropped 47%, The Beatles fell 46%, Tom Waits dropped 35% and Il Divo slid 32%.

The entire Top 20 after the jump.

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