3 Doors Down tops Charts

Released Feb. 8, 3 Doors Down “Seventeen Days” has reached the No.1 position on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart after only one week with sale of more than 200,000 copies. This is their third album and their first No. 1 album debut.

No strangers to the top of the charts, the band — singer Brad Arnold, guitarists Chris Henderson and Matt Roberts and bassist Todd Harrell — has sold more than 12 million albums with their previous releases, “The Better Life” in 2000 and 2002’s “Away From The Sun,” which made its Billboard album chart debut at No. 8 with 115,000 and has sold 3.3 million to date. “The Better Life” has sold 5.2 million copies so far.

With 231,000 U.S. copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, 3DD’s third studio effort sends the Game’s “The Documentary” to No. 2. “We’re happy,” Arnold said when notified of the news in Dallas Wednesday morning. “It’s very exciting and we’re especially thankful to our fans for their support. We were tentative on how people would react, because we put our hearts into this one, and now our fans are saying they love this record, and that feels great; that’s all we care about.”

Billboard Magazine stated, “even with a healthy respect for heritage, 3 Doors Down is a thoroughly modern American band and a damn good one,” while The Associated Press reports, “(with) hard-rocking riffs and sensitive lyrics .. the band has blown away most of its competition.”