The rock band ALABAMA SHAKES earned their first #1 on the Billboard 200 chart with "Sound & Color" selling 96,000 copies. Their first full-length album, "Boys & Girls", peaked at #6 in 2013. It's the first independently-distributed #1 album since JASON ALDEAN'S "Old Boots New Dirt" last October. The only other new album in the Top 10 is "Love Story" from YELAWOLF, which sold 58,000 copies in 3rd place. He previously topped out at #27 with his last album, "Radioactive".

Here are this week's Top 10 albums . . .

1. NEW: "Sound & Color", Alabama Shakes . . . 96,000 copies

2. The "Furious 7" soundtrack . . . 62,000 copies

3. NEW: "Love Story", Yelawolf . . . 58,000 copies

4. "If You're Reading This It's Too Late", Drake . . . 48,000 copies

5. The "Fifty Shades of Grey" soundtrack . . . 38,000 copies

6. "1989", Taylor Swift . . . 36,000 copies

7. "In the Lonely Hour", Sam Smith . . . 36,000 copies

8. "x", Ed Sheeran . . . 32,000 copies

9. "Montevallo", Sam Hunt . . . 32,000 copies

10. "Title", Meghan Trainor . . . 30,000 copies