The Decemberists are back on the charts.

The Portland band's "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World" landed at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, with 51,000 units "moved" under the magazine's new chart metrics, which are now adjusted for streaming plays and track downloads. That said, Billboard reported that 97% of that number comes from plain old album sales, so don't look for the band to conquer Spotify just yet.

The album sold roughly half of the first-week numbers for 2011's "The King is Dead," which notched sales of 94,000 and took the band all the way to No. 1. But 51,000 beats 19,000, the first-week sales figure for 2009's "The Hazards of Love."

With last week's other major local release, Sleater-Kinney just missed the top 10 with "No Cities to Love," arriving at No. 13, a new high for the independent act.

Portland music will have another shot at the charts in March, when Modest Mouse's anticipated "Strangers to Ourselves" debuts.

Rock act Fall Out Boy topped the albums chart this week with "American Beauty/American Psycho."

Previously:

How the Decemberists brought Portland to the world

Review: Sleater-Kinney's 'No Cities to Love' is a defiant return

-- David Greenwald

dgreenwald@oregonian.com

503-294-7625; @davidegreenwald