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Ghost Floats Hard Rock Back to Top of Billboard 200 for First Time in 4 Years


Ghost's "Skeletá" returned hard rock to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time in over four years.

When Ghost ’s new studio album Skeletá debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated May 10), it not only secured the band its first No. The act’s previous high in both metrics came in the debut week of Impera(March 26, 2022), which earned 70,000 units (of which nearly 63,000 were album sales). 1 on the Billboard 200: Skeletá, Power Up, Tool’s Fear Inoculum(Sept. 14, 2019 chart), Slipknot’s We Are Not Your Kind(Aug. 24, 2019), Foo Fighters’ Concrete and Gold(Oct. 7, 2017), Metallica’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct(Dec. 10, 2016), Disturbed’s Immortalized(Sept. 12, 2015) and Breaking Benjamin’s Dark Before Dawn(July 11, 2015).

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