Multi-platinum rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars returns to the album charts this week with the debut of their highly anticipated third album This Is War (EMI/Virgin), landing in the #2 spot on both the Alternative Album Chart and Digital Album chart, selling nearly 71,000 copies in the first week. Alternative Press Magazine praised the album with 4 out 5 stars and calls This is War “an artistic triumph for 30 Seconds To Mars.” This Is War features thousands of different album covers, as friends, fans, musicians, artists and many other notable persons submitted their own photos to be used on individual covers as part of the band’s innovative Faces of Mars campaign. Not only are fans on album covers, the Thirty Seconds To Mars faithful can be heard yelling, clapping, stomping and singing choruses throughout the album. Fans participated in these “Summits” earlier this year in any of 9 countries around the world before the band extended the event digitally through TwitVid, allowing any fan with a wireless signal the ability to contribute.
