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Fourteen maggots. That’s all Slipknot needed to score the first chart-topping debut of their impressive, decades-plus career. If the band’s All Hope Is Gone had been picked up by 14 more fans — affectionately dubbed “maggots” — it would have opened #1 on next week’s albums sales chart.

But Los Angeles rapper the Game has his own allegiant fanbase, and in one of the closest races in recent memory, his L.A.X. managed to outsell Slipknot’s latest by a mere 13 copies. First-week sales for the Game were clocked at 238,285, while those generated by the masked Iowa metallers were reported at 238,272, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That means on next week’s chart, Game will notch his third consecutive #1 debut. His 2005 LP The Documentary entered the chart on top with 587,000 scans, and his 2006 follow-up, Doctor’s Advocate, sold more than 358,000 units and also opened at #1.

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