Which Guns N' Roses album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 in 2008?

Chinese Democracy debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 in 2008. The album opened with 261,000 U.S. copies in its first week, placing behind Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak and Taylor Swift's Fearless on the chart dated December 13, 2008.

Its chart arrival was the culmination of one of rock's longest and most expensive recording sagas. Chinese Democracy was Guns N' Roses' first studio album of original material since 1991's Use Your Illusion albums and followed years of changing musicians, rewrites, leaks, and delays. In the United States, it was released as a Best Buy exclusive on November 23, 2008.

The number-three debut is sometimes confused with the album's international results: it reached number two in the United Kingdom and topped charts in several other countries. Its U.S. performance was commercially respectable, but it fell to number 18 in its second week, and the album's sales were widely judged disappointing relative to the enormous expectations surrounding it.