Sleep Token have achieved their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with Even in Arcadia.
The UK act’s fourth LP and major-label debut for RCA shifted 127,000 equal album items within the US as of final week, beating out Kali Uchis’ new file Sincerely at No. 2.
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Sleep Token’s No. 1 chart place got here on the energy of spectacular numbers by way of each gross sales and streams, with Even in Arcadia having the all time streaming week for a tough rock album whereas concurrently having the largest week by items for any rock album in almost a yr, per Billboard. The album moved 127,000 equal items, of which 73,500 had been pure album gross sales.
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Exhausting rock music is having a second within the mainstream, as Sleep Token’s Billboard No. 1 comes only a couple weeks after Ghost did the identical with Skeletá. Whereas the previous band made main headway on streaming platforms, Ghost reached No. 1 by having the largest vinyl gross sales week of any arduous rock album in fashionable historical past. Somebody remind Gene Simmons: Rock ain’t useless.
In the meantime, Sleep Token can be taking their new album on the highway for a US enviornment tour this fall. Dates kick off September sixteenth in Duluth, Georgia, and run by way of October eleventh in Los Angeles. Get tickets right here.