Matador‘s Queens of the Stone Age will debut at #1 on next week’s chart, giving Beggars Group their second #1 album in a month, following the chart-topping bow of XL‘s Vampire Weekend, also distributed by Beggars. Another indie alternative record, Sleeping With Sirens, will also have an impressive opening. Here’s how it looks headed into the weekend:

*Queens of the Stone Age (Matador) 85-95k
*Sleeping With Sirens (Rise) 65-70k
Daft Punk (Columbia) 60-65k
Darius Rucker (Capitol Nashville) 30-35k
Blake Shelton (Warner Bros. Nashville) 30-35k
*Megadeth (UMe) 28-32k
Imagine Dragons (Interscope) 25-28k
Justin Timberlake (RCA) 25-28k
Great Gatsby (Interscope) 24-27k
George Strait (MCA Nashville) 24-27k
Now 46 (UMe) 23-26k
Florida Georgia Line (Big Machine/Republic) 21-24k
John Fogerty (Vanguard) 20-23k
Michael Buble (Reprise) 20-23k
Lady Antebellum (Capitol Nashville) 19-22k
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Macklemore) 18-21k
Vampire Weekend (XL) 18-21k
Alice In Chains (Capitol) 18-21k

*Debuts

Meanwhile, the top strains at the UMPG security-guard booth this week are Mungo Hairy, OctoKush and the Uzbekistani Crippler. [HitsDailyDouble]