Veteran hair-metal outfit Motley Crue debuted at #4 on the U.S. pop charts with the band’s original lineup releasing its first album in 11 years.  The album, entitled “Saints of Los Angeles” sold 99,000 copies in its first week and marked the groups 9th album in its 27 year history.  The new record outsold the bands previous release “generation swine”, which also debuted at #4 but sold only 80,500 copies. 

This showing is very impressive for a band that peaked in 1989 with the hit “Dr. Feelgood”.  Now for my analysis.  Although the music industry as a whole is weining, it seems the top artists are still selling records.  Artists such as Motley Crue, Lil Wayne, Coldplay, and the like are still selling records–in fact they are flying off the shelves.  It just goes to show you, no matter how bad the music, big record execs can still convince teenagers to buy the music they want them to buy.  Ohhhh the power of advertisement!