![]() ![]() "I think people who grew up in the 80s are often going to think of us," said keyboard player Nick Rhodes. However, Duran Duran bristle at the notion they are 80s relics, pointing to a new album made in collaboration with Justin Timberlake and top American producer Timbaland. The band counted the late Princess Diana among their legions of female fans during their 1980s heyday with hits such as "Girls on Film" and "Hungry Like the Wolf." While videos of them on yachts wearing silk suits might be painful to watch now, over 100,000 Internet pages are devoted to Duran Duran, who have sold more than 90 million albums. "Sometimes the music press try to write us out of music history a little bit, so it's been really cool that bands have actually said we were a good band, and they were good songs and they want to be a little bit like us and take something from Duran Duran." "It's the greatest form of flattery," Duran Duran drummer Roger Taylor told Reuters in an interview before a sell-out Tokyo show earlier this week. ![]() Once panned for being pretty boys who used enough hairspray to blow a hole in the ozone layer, the British band have become a reference point for many of today's chart-topping acts, such as indie rockers Arctic Monkeys and American outfit The Killers. Pop stars Duran Duran, who shot to fame for a string of smash hits and dodgy suits in the 1980s, are officially cool at last. The first single from the new album, "Touch My Body," has spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 404,000 copies. "The Emancipation of Mimi," debuted at No. Final data will be released on Wednesday. Billboard estimates they represent 80% of the U.S. The first-day sales are tallied on tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan's Building Chart, which is based on data from nine chains - Trans World Entertainment, Starbucks, Best Buy, Circuit City, iTunes, Borders, Target, Anderson Merchandisers, and Handleman Co. That's more than five times the first-day haul for the current Billboard 200 champ, Leona Lewis' "Spirit," which ended up selling almost 205,000 copies in the week ended April 13. Preliminary data show that "E=MC2," Carey's follow-up to her 2005 smash "The Emancipation of Mimi," sold 154,000 units Tuesday. pop album chart, based on massive first-day sales from a survey of leading music retailers. Mariah Carey looks certain to debut at No.
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