Slipknot edges past the Game for No. 1 album

In a neck-and-neck race to the top of the national sales chart, Slipknot has slipped past the Game, with the hard-rock band’s “All Hope Is Gone” edging out the rapper’s “LAX” for the No. 1 spot.

It gives the band its first chart-topping album, with 239,516 copies, compared with 238,382 for “LAX.”

Solange Knowles entered the Top 10 at No. 9, Beyoncé’s little sister selling 46,000 copies of her sophomore album, “Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams,” according to the Nielsen SoundScan sales monitoring service.

-- Randy Lewis

Photo of Slipknot by Neil Zlozower