The “Twilight” soundtrack debuts at #1 on next week’s Billboard albums sales chart, having sold about 164,700 copies in its first week on store shelves. Mind you the teen romance vampire flick doesn’t open till next Friday but fans of the much-anticipated adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s novel hit their local record stores to pick up a copy of the movie’s soundtrack.

more photos and Twilight soundtrack I caught myself by Paramore music video after the scare…

The Twilight soundtrack features two songs by Paramore plus songs by such other acts as Linkin Park, Collective Soul and Perry Farrell. It is the first soundtrack to hit #1 in advance of the movie’s release since 8 Mile six years ago.  That’s the Eminem movie which was also debuted in November back in 2002. Some coincidence here?

For the record, only five other soundtracks have ever hit #1 in advance of the movie’s release. In 1997, Private Parts hit #1 five days before the Howard Stern comedy opened. In 1994, Murder Was The Case hit #1 four months before the Snoop Dogg movie opened. In 1975, That’s The Way Of The World hit #1 one month before the little-seen Earth, Wind & Fire movie opened. In 1964, A Hard Day’s Night hit #1 two weeks before The Beatles movie opened. And in 1951 (hey, I said “ever”), Show Boat hit #1 six weeks before the MGM musical opened according to Yahoo Music

Movie plot: a teenage girl, Isabella (Bella) Swan played by Kristen Stewart risks everything she has when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Collen played by Robert Pattinson.

Robert Pattinson, the star of upcoming teen vampire flick caused a stampede the other day at a San Francisco mall – more than 3,000 teens showed up to get a glimpse of Pattinson! I think we can pretty much safely predict that Twilight will be smiling all the way to the box office!

Paramore - I caught myself music video

Twilight hits theaters nationwide on Friday, 21st of November!