[article id="1613748"]The E.N.D.[/article] is clearly just the beginning for the [artist id="30064"]Black Eyed Peas[/artist]. Thanks to the speaker-shredding mega-smash "Boom Boom Pow," the group will take the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart next week with first-week sales of more than 304,000, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.

That is more than enough to dethrone last week's #1, the [artist id="814"]Dave Matthews Band's[/artist] Big Whiskey & the Groogrux King, the sales of which plummeted by 70 percent to 128,000. At #3, [artist id="502642"]Eminem's[/artist] Relapse also saw another steep decline (38 percent) to 87,000 units moved, but the album managed to surpass the platinum sales mark in its first month. Showing remarkably strong hang-time, the all-star debut from Chickenfoot -- featuring ex-Van Halen members Michael Anthony and Sammy Hagar, [artist id="1012"]Red Hot Chili Peppers[/artist] drummer Chad Smith and guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani -- holds strong at #4 with a more than 50 percent uptick in business to 79,000.

The only debuts in the top 10 are from bachata stars Aventura, whose Last comes in at #5 on sales of 47,000; veteran rapper [artist id="504157"]Mos Def[/artist], whose Ecstatic lands at #9 (39,000); and former [artist id="1918586"]Pretty Ricky[/artist] star [artist id="3022362"]Pleasure P[/artist], whose Introduction of Marcus Cooper sneaks in at #10 (39,000).

The rest of the top 10 are: [artist id="3061469"]Lady Gaga's[/artist] Fame (#6, 47,000), the "Hannah Montana" soundtrack (#7, 46,000) and [artist id="988"]Green Day's[/artist] 21st Century Breakdown (#8, 41,000). Back on an independent label after 20 years on a major, legendary New York noisers [artist id="1018"]Sonic Youth[/artist] hit #18 with their latest, Eternal (19,000), and veteran soul sister Teena Marie is close behind at #20 with Congo Square (18,000).

The full-length debut from [article id="1613874"]D-Block[/article] (featuring the members of the LOX and others) drops in at #40 (12,000), while the DJ Quik & Kurupt collaboration, Blaqkout, pops up at #61 (9,000). One of the year's latest most talked-about indie albums, the Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca, arrives at #65 (8,000), and punk agitators Anti-Flag's People or the Gun makes a quiet noise down at #120 (4,000).

The Peas should savor the moment, because next week brings the latest from the Jonas Brothers, [article id="1613921"]Lines, Vines and Trying Times.[/article]