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# New Hawthorne Heights Debuts At #3 Despite Victory’s Best (or Worst) Efforts
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/new_hawthorne_h/
- Published: 2006-03-09T07:51:07.000Z
- Updated: 2006-03-09T07:51:07.000Z
- Description: Despite loud posturing, a few dirty tricks and a whole lot of expensive old-school promo, Victory was only able to push Hawthorne Heights to #3 on Billboard’s Top 200 in. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2006/03/new_hawthorne_h.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Indie Music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

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Despite loud posturing, a few [dirty tricks](http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2006/03/victory%5Frecords.html?ref=hypebot.com) and a whole lot of expensive old-school promo, Victory was only able to push Hawthorne Heights to #3 on [Billboard’s Top 200](http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article%5Fdisplay.jsp?vnu%5Fcontent%5Fid=1002154738&ref=hypebot.com) in it’s first week. The bands latest CD moved 103,000 units while Disney TV movie soundtrack "High School Musical" sold an impressive 128,00 in it’s second week of release. Ne-Yo’s debut release hit #1 with 301,000 units – almost 3 times the sales of Hawthorne Heights.

Under different circumstances any indie rock CD debuting at #3 and selling more than 100,000 copies in a single week would draw kudos for both Victory and the band. But given Vicotry’s excessive over-hyping and encouraging street teamers to hide Ne-Yo CD’s at retail, Hawthorne Height’s impressive achievement is no cause for celebration.