Ghost achieves first No. 1 on Billboard 200 with ‘Skeletá’

Tobias Forge of the band Ghost performs " Imperatour" tour at Chicago's Allstate Arena in Rosemont^ IL^ USA. Chicago^ IL USA - February 18 2022

Ghost has earned the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time with the band’s latest studio effort Skeletá debuting at No. 1 on the charts dated May 10 -with 86,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending May 1, with 89% pure album sales — a large portion of which were vinyl sales. (per Billboard). Both of those figures are career highs for Ghost.

‘Skeletá was released on April 25 and is the Swedish rockers’ sixth full-length studio album; it marks the first album by a hard rock band to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 since AC/DC‘s comeback album Power Up was released in November 2020; the last rock or alternative album to lead the chart was Coldplay‘s Moon Music, released in October 2024.

Ghost are currently on the road in Europe in support of Skeletá, with the North American leg of the tour set to kick-off in July. Ticket information is available on the band’s website.

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