YELLOWCARD LIGHTS UP BILLBOARD AT NUMBER 5

Yellowcard’s new album, Lights And Sounds, debuts on the Billboard 200 album chart at Number 5, making it the hightest charting rock record for the week.

The album was up against the Now #1 album and P.O.D.’s Testify, among others. Violin player Sean Mackin told us that Lights And Sounds is a make or break album for Yellowcard.

“I think this is the make it or break it. I don’t know we just… after being where we were at when we recorded Ocean Avenue and being out in the public eye and listening to the critics and the fans and everyone kind of toss around what we are or what’s going on, I think that we were filled with a lot of, ‘Well we know who we are and what we are, and to have us be pigeonholed into this certain category…’ Personally, I thought we were more than one subgenre of musid or whatever the industry’s become, so…”

Yellowcard’s last album, Ocean Avenue, sold two-point-five million copies worldwide, but some feel it could have been more had the industry come up with a legalized download system. Those at the label are positive the new media initiatives will slow down illegal downloads, leading to more sales.