Nine Inch Nails have taken a bite out of the competition.

The industrial alt-rock mavens’ first official studio release in six years, With Teeth, debuted atop the pop charts for the week ending Sunday, moving a career-best 272,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan.

Powered by the single “The Hand That Feeds,” the new disc aims to return Nine Inch Nails and creative mastermind
Trent Reznor to their mid-’90s heyday, when The Downward Spiral delivered such twisted hits as “Closer” and “Hurt.” Though 1999’s double-disc The Fragile became NIN’s first number one disc, the album vanished from the charts as quickly as the band dropped off the radar. With a new hit single and album, Reznor looks to put those Fragile days behind him.

With Teeth is the fourth album in four weeks to open at number one in the wake of 50 Cent’s impressive six-week run on top. Mariah Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi kicked off the revolving door four weeks ago, followed by new released from
Rob Thomas,
Bruce Springsteen and now Nine Inch Nails. (Carey has remained in the number two position for the past three charts–it sold 197,000 copies last week.)

With Jedimania heating up, John Williams’ Star Wars: Episode III–Revenge of the Sith film score sold nearly 96,000 copies to open at number six. This is the fifth Star Wars soundtrack to open in the Top 10 and third in a row to accomplish this feat, a new record for sountracks. The Star Wars series was previously in a three-way tie for the most consecutive Top 10 bows with the Spider-Man and American Idol franchises. The film itself, which will be the last in the series, opens May 19.

Chicago emo-rockers Fall Out Boy landed the final Top 10 bow, charting at number nine with From Under the Cork. The band, backed by the hit single “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down,” sold 68,000 first-week copies.

The rest of the Top 10 were holdovers: Rob Thomas’ Something To Be at three, 50 Cent’s The Massacre at four, Bruce Springsteen’s Devils & Dust at five,
Gwen Stefani’s Love, Angel, Music, Baby at seven, Il Divo’s self-titled at eight and Houston rapper Mike Jones’ Who Is Mike Jones? at 10.

Elvis by the Presleys, the double-disc companion set to CBS’ May sweeps Elvis miniseries, sold north of 49,000 copies to bow at 15. Along with several of the King’s hits, the 32-track set includes a collection of rarities and early demo recordings.

Limp Bizkit, one of the few artists ever to achieve a million-copy sales week, was an afterthought on the Billboard 200 with its new seven-song EP, The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1). The seven-song disc, which admittedly got little or no label promotion, sold 37,000 copies at number 24 bow. Just two years ago, the group sold 325,000 first-week copies of Results May Vary, which was considered a relative disappointment at the time.

Other noteworthy new releases included
Ryan Adams’ Cold Roses at 26, Nivea’s Complicated at 37, Amy Grant’s Rock of Ages…Hymns & Faith at 42,
Aimee Mann’s The Forgotten Arm at 60, Joe Perry’s self-titled at 110 and the Raveonettes’ Pretty in Black at 152.

Here’s a recap of last week’s Top 10 albums:

1. With Teeth, Nine Inch Nails
2. The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey
3. Something To Be, Rob Thomas
4. The Massacre, 50 Cent
5. Devils & Dust, Bruce Springsteen
6. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, John Williams
7. Love, Angel, Music, Baby, Gwen Stefani
8. Il Divo, Il Divo
9. From Under the Cork, Fall Out Boy
10. Who Is Mike Jones?, Mike Jones

Credit: E! Online