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The Decaydance act hits a new high thanks to the breakout success of single &#8220;Good Girls Go Bad (featuring Leighton Meester)&#8221;&#8211;previous album &#8220;Viva la Cobra&#8221; peaked at number 80 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Moore&#8217;s self-titled debut will narrowly trail with figures in the 34-37,000 range, while the self-titled cut from Slaughterhouse should be good for 23-25,000.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to score big with lead single &#8220;Wanted,&#8221; the self-titled debut from Jessie James will settle for 18-20,000.  &#8220;Beggars,&#8221; an iTunes exclusive from Thrice, will debut just under 15,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=\\cobra starship&#038;iid=5704933\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/a\/a\/3\/4\/Diesel_U_Music_4be9.JPG?adImageId=2190158&#038;imageId=5704933\" width=\"320\" height=\"403\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Diesel U Music 2009 NYC Tour At Webster Hall On July 30 2009 In New York City\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Album Sales: George Strait Dominates; 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