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From Tom's official site:
"Tom Waits debuted on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at #6, making this the highest debut and the fastest selling (63K+) of his long and storied career—not only in the US, but around the globe. Bad As Me, his 20th album to date, is currently top #10 Europe including the UK, Italy, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Austria and Germany; #6 in Canada and #11 in Australia.
Critics are making a racket with rave reviews including the Los Angeles Times: “The singer with the lowdown Howlin’ Wolf yowl, which is richer and more elastic than ever on Bad As Me…his first new studio album in seven years, and one of the best of his wildly fruitful creative life…The record…swirls with adventure and includes the instant classic ballad ‘Back in the Crowd,’ the stomping march ‘Hell Broke Luce’ and the transcendent closer ‘New Year’s Eve,’ a quiet yarn of a waltz” and Rolling Stone: “It doesn’t get much better than this.”
Meanwhile, 2011 is looking like a pretty good year for Waits…he started it off by being inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame and may wind down the clock with his best-selling album to date, no mean task for an artist in these tough times."
Tom Waits | News | Tom Waits' Highest Debut of Career!
In his 40 year recording career Tom has barely even managed to crack the top 30 on the Billboard charts (and he only did it one other time) so for him to sell this many albums and have such a strong debut is really very commendable. Also in the top 10 are American Idol winners Kelly Clarkson and Scott McCreery, country music star Toby Keith, the ever emotional Adele, and Coldplay (just to name a few). If there were ever someone who you'd not expect to be sandwiched in between them all it would be Tom Waits.
