By December 2010 , the album A Thousand Suns sold more than 590,000 copies in the U.S .
On January 11 , 2011 , A Thousand Suns was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of 500,000 copies sold in the U.S . It spent 30 weeks on the Billboard 200 , and by December 2010 it had sold 1,700,000 copies worldwide .
A Thousand Suns