The Eagles' first new studio album in 28 years, "Long Road Out of Eden," takes a short route to No. 1 on The Billboard 200 after Billboard revised a significant chart policy today (Nov. 7).

In consultation with Nielsen SoundScan, Billboard will now allow exclusive album titles that are only available through one retailer to appear on The Billboard 200 and other charts, effective with this week's charts. Prior to this, proprietary titles were not eligible to appear on most Billboard charts.

Early SoundScan numbers have the Eagles taking the top perch on The Billboard 200 with 711,000 copies sold, with most sales moved by Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores. For now, the only other U.S. outlets carrying "Eden" are walmart.com, where both physical copies and downloads are sold, and the Eagles' own Web site.

Well, selling over 700,000 copies in one week of any CD (and only at Walmart)...these days is amazing. Often CD's are #1 on the charts with sales of uner 100,000 in the first week.

Looks like taking 27 years to make a new full CD by the Eagles paid off

Maybe they have been talking to Garth I might add , I like them a lot .

Very,very good point! Also add Steuart Smith to the mix as he took Don Felders' spot in the Eagles. Steuart was Rodney Crowells' guitar player who got songwriting credits on numerous songs on this release & was stunning on guitar when I saw the Eagles a couple of weeks ago. I just finnished the Don Felder book "Heaven & Hell" about his P.O.V. of his time in the Eagles. Not alot of nice things to say about Frey & Henley.

Good for them, I've always loved the Eagles. They were awesome last night on the show, so glad Vince got to introduce them.