Foo Fighters headed to Number One

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It looks like Foo Fighters will score their first ever Number One album. The band’s new disc, Wasting Light, is expected to sell upwards of 200,000 copies in its first week, which should be enough to beat out new releases from, among others, TV On The Radio, Paul Simon, Jessie J and Alison Krauss and Union Station.
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The fact that this would be the band’s first Number One album is sort of insane when you consider that they’ve released six studio albums, a live disc and a greatest hits collection. Five of those past releases have made it into the Top 10, but Wasting Light would be the first Number One. 2005’s In Your Honor was the band’s previous best-seller, coming in at Number Two in its first week.
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In other Foos news, the band recently revealed that after recording Wasting Light, they destroyed the original master tapes. But the pieces aren’t gone for good. Dave Grohl says that a small chunk of tape has been inserted in the albums you can purchase. Grohl told LA Weekly, “Everyone was so precious about tapes, so afraid they’re gonna shed or break or something will happen to them. That just made me want to destroy it. To prove a point to everybody to show how intangible a real tape can be. I thought, let’s chop it up into a million pieces, and give it to the people who buy the album so they can hold it in their hands and see it. A lot of the records you buy, there’s nothing you can hold in your hand, it’s all 1’s and 0’s, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.”