Guitar Hero 5 Tops Beatles in U.K.

We won't see how the "battle of the bands" is doing here in America until we get the NPD data next month, but according to the latest weekly sales from Chart-Track Activision's Guitar Hero 5 has the edge over MTV's The Beatles Rock Band in the U.K.  

For the week ended September 12, Guitar Hero 5 debuted in the top spot; furthermore, Chart-Track said it was the "first in the series to take an All Formats No1 placing – both Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Guitar Hero: World Tour (the fourth in the series) reached No4 on the All Formats Chart."

Meanwhile, The Beatles Rock Band made its debut in fourth place. That said, the EA distributed title debuted "higher than the highest position achieved by either of the previous Rock Band titles (record for this series held by original Rock Band, No6 in week 21, 2008)."

Batman: Arkham Asylum, which was in first place the previous week, fell to third, while Wii Sports Resort (second in the previous week) dropped down to sixth.

Here's the top 10 all-formats list:

1. Guitar Hero 5 (Activision Blizzard)
2. Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (Codemasters)
3. Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eidos)
4. The Beatles: Rock Band (EA)
5. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
6. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
7. IL Sturmovik: Birds of Prey (505 Games)
8. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
9. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
10. Ashes Cricket 2009 (Codemasters)