Led Zeppelin have had six US number one albums

The band's live album, a three-CD set called How the West Was Won, sold more than 154,000 copies.

The band, famous for hard rock songs such as Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love and Kashmir, also went to top of the music video charts this week, US magazine Billboard said.

The two-disc Led Zeppelin DVD is estimated to have sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week on release.

This would break the record previously held by the Beatles Anthology DVD, released in April, by at least 40,000 copies.

The last time Led Zeppelin had a US number one album was in 1979, when they released In Through the Out Door.

Led Zeppelin's keyboard player John Paul Jones said the fact they had promoted the new album may have helped.

DVD screening

We started with the premi�re and a lot of promotion," Jones said. "It's nice to talk about a project that's really good and worthwhile. The DVD is just stunning, and the triple-CD, How The West Was Won - it's just all really good stuff, you know? It's very exciting."

Singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page attended a two-hour screening of the DVD in New York on 27 May, the day their two new releases came out.

Apart from In Through the Out Door, Led Zeppelin have had five other albums that have reached the US number one.

1969's Led Zeppelin II, 1970's Led Zeppelin III, 1973's Houses Of The Holy, 1975's Physical Graffiti, and 1976's Presence all topped the US album chart.