Great debut for the band.
The Strokes score a career-best week with their sophomore release, “Room on Fire.” The highly anticipated RCA album bows at No. 4 on sales of 126,000 copies. The group’s 2001 debut, “Is This It,” peaked at No. 33. While it has sold 910,000 copies to date, the set’s best showing came during the week of Christmas 2001, when it moved 41,000 copies. Current single “12:51” is up one on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks tally to No. 15.