Contributor: Adam R. Holz

Top-3 disc spawned the hit “Get Drunk and Be Somebody”

This concept album about a serial killer (whose macabre exploits are just the twisted fantasy of a convict) bowed at 53.

No. 1 pop and R&B album

This slow-burner has sold nearly a million copies.

Depeche Mode’s 12th full-length album debuted at No 3 on the album chart.

Chart Action: Disc debuted at No. 1 with a whopping 742,000 copies sold its first week. The title track is a chart-topping single.

Topped out at No. 2. “Never Again” became a Top-10 pop single.

The Seattle grunge band’s eighth CD quickly sold a half-million copies and peaked at No. 2.

The band’s fourth studio album is a Top-10 pop effort.

Urban’s fifth studio release debuted at No. 1 on the album chart. “Sweet Thing” topped the country chart and hit No. 30 on Billboard’s Hot 100.

Despite only peaking at 23, this enduring disc has slowly sold more than a million copies.

U2’s 12th studio debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart with first-week sales of 484,000 units.

The band’s first No. 1 album since 1988 includes the hit single “(You Want to) Make a Memory”

Disc debuted at No. 1

No. 1 debut. “Get Back” was a hit single.