If there's anything that my advertising classes taught me (they didn't teach me anything), it's to never underestimate the buying power of Dave Matthews Band fans. They're to thank for the success of hacky sacks, weed in the Midwest and the robust DVD sales of the Dave Matthews-Dakota Fanning picture, Because of Winn Dixie. Now Dave Matthews fans are responsible for getting their molasses tongued prophet to the top of the Billboard 200, as the band's 14,000 album (that's an estimate), Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, has moved 424,000 units in its first week out.

Dave Matthews Band knock off former chart topper Eminem, whose Relapse topped the last two weeks, and now sits at number two with 141,000 copies sold. Big Whiskey is the fifth straight DMB album to sell more than 400,000 copies in its first week out, proving that there are either 400,000 Dave Matthews Band fans who like them so much that they'll buy every CD, or one Dave Matthews Band fan who buys 400,000 copies of each of their albums. [Billboard]