Linkin Park are certain to repeat the success of their last album and once again debut at number one atop the US chart later this week.
Hitsdailydouble.com is predicting sales of between 250-260k for the first week of the Rick Rubin produced 'A Thousand Suns' album.
The site also points out that their last Linkin Park record, 'Minutes To Midnight' from 2007, sold 623k in week one.
'A Thousand Suns' is the forth album for Linkin Park. It is a concept album about nuclear war. The title came from Hindu Sanskri text Bhagvad Gita 'f riddance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like splendor of the mighty one'.
The first Linkin Park album 'Hybrid Theory' was released in 2000. It has sold more than 10 million copies in the USA.
The band released the second record 'Meteora' in 2003 and third 'Minutes To Midnight' in 2007.
Music icons Bon Jovi are releasing a career-spanning greatest hits compilation November 9th on Mercury Records.
Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS will transport listeners through the band's worldwide monster hits of the past and offer a bridge to the future with the debut of four brand new tracks.
'Music marks milestones in all our lives,' notes frontman Jon Bon Jovi. 'These songs have stood the test of time and they remind us all where we came from, even as we keep our eyes towards the future.'
Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS will be a 16-song single disc chock full of the band's biggest chart-toppers including 'Livin' On A Prayer,' 'Always,' 't's My Life,' 'Wanted Dead or Alive,' and 'Who Says You Can't Go Home.'
One of the biggest bands on the planet, they have sold a staggering 120 million albums worldwide, scored 5 UK Number 1 albums alone and played live to over 34 million fans.
Two new songs, including lead single 'What Do You Got?,' round out the tracklisting. 'What Do You Got?' will hit radio airwaves globally at the end of August and is a brand new Bon Jovi classic.
An inspiring ballad with Richie Sambora's guitar to the fore, it is a message from a band who have brilliantly captured on record the everyday hopes and dreams of millions throughout their career ' always strive for more but never forget what is really important in life.
Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION will be a 28-song two disc edition made up of the GREATEST HITS CD from the standard edition and a second disc featuring beloved fan favorites including 'Bed of Roses,' 'Blood on Blood,' 'These Days,' and 'Keep The Faith' plus the third and fourth new tracks created for this project.
The four new songs ('The More Things Change,' 'No Apologies,' 'This Is Love, This Is Life' and the first single, 'What Do You Got?') were written specifically for inclusion in this compilation.
The complete tracklistings for Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS and Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION will be unveiled exclusively at www.bonjovi.com.
