Angels and Airwaves’ new album ‘I-Empire‘ has made its debut at No. 9 with 66,000 copies sold. The bands first album ‘We Don’t Need to Whisper‘ debuted at No. 4 in 2006 with 127,000 copies sold. Demon Hunter’s ‘Storm the Gates of Hell‘ debuted at No. 85 with 8,700 copies sold and Nonpoint’s ‘Vengeance‘ scanned 6,400 copies coming in at No. 130.

Other notables include:

No. 23 Kid Rock ‘Rock N’ Roll Jesus‘ – 36,000
No. 30 Nickelback ‘All the Right Reasons‘ – 27,000
No. 32 Avenged Sevenfold ‘Avenged Sevenfold‘ – 25,000
No. 38 Seether ‘Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces‘ – 20,000
No. 39 Daughtry ‘Daughtry‘ – 20,000
No. 40 Matchbox Twenty ‘Exile on Mainstream‘ – 20,000
No. 48 Linkin Park ‘Minutes to Midnight‘ – 18,000
No. 50 Foo Fighters ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace‘ – 17,000

Sales are up 7.5% from last week and down 16.8% for the year.