Billboard Top 15 Hard Rock Albums – 8/3/13

Billboard Hard Rock Albums Chart.  Top 15 albums ranked by sales data and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

THE TOP 15 THIS WEEK:

1. SICK PUPPIES – Connect
2. SKILLET – Rise
3. BLACK SABBATH – 13
4. PHILLIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS– Walk Through Exits Only
5. VANS WARPED TOUR ’13 – 2013 Tour Compilation
6. DEFEATER –  Letters Home
7. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – …Like Clockwork
8. SLEEPING WITH SIRENS – Feel
9. BRING ME THE HORIZON – Sempiternal
10. ALICE IN CHAINES – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
11. AMON AMARTH – Deceiver Of The Gods
12. HALESTORM – The Strange Case Of…
13. AUGUST BURNS RED – Rescue & Restore
14. FALLING IN REVERSE – Fashionably Late
15. VOLBEAT – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

HARD ROCK DADDY NOTES:

• ***Check out the Black Sabbath – “God Is Dead?” – Hard Rock Daddy Review***
• ***Check out the Skillet – “Sick Of It”:  Hard Rock Daddy Review*** 
• Sick Puppies debut in the #1 position
• Phillip H. Anselmo & The Illegals debut in the #4 position
• Defeater debuts in the #6 position