Led Zeppelin debuts at US No1!

NEW YORK (Hits magazine) - It looks like Led Zeppelin will have both the No1 album and DVD in the U.S this week. The music industry trade magazine Hits reports that about 145,000 copies of the three-CD, How The West Was Won have been sold since it was released last week, which should put it at the top of the US albums chart.

The magazine also said the two-disc Led Zeppelin DVD has sold more than 100,000 copies in the past week, which would make it Number One on Billboard's music video chart--and which shatters the former record, set by the Beatles Anthology back in April, by around 40,000 copies.

Led Zeppelin bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones said all the promotion he and his bandmates have done recently probably helped sell a few CDs and DVDs.
"We started with the premiere and a lot of promotion," Jones said. "It's nice to talk about a project that's really good and worthwhile. The DVD is just stunning, and the triple-CD, How The West Was Won - it's just all really good stuff, you know? It's very exciting."

Jones, guitarist Jimmy Page, and singer Robert Plant attended a screening of a two-hour version of the Led Zeppelin DVD footage in New York on Tuesday (May 27), the same day the DVD and CD came out.

The last Led Zeppelin album to top the chart in the U.S. was In Through The Out Door, which spent seven weeks at Number One in September and October of 1979. Five other Led Zeppelin albums have hit Number One - 1969's Led Zeppelin II, 1970's Led Zeppelin III, 1973's Houses Of The Holy, 1975's Physical Graffiti, and 1976's Presence.