{"id":12495,"date":"2025-05-05T12:21:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12495"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:22:00","slug":"ghost-earns-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-with-skeleta-its-the-first-hard-rock-album-to-be-no-1-in-more-than-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12495","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With\u00a0\u2018Skelet\u00e1\u2019 It’s the first hard rock album to be No. 1 in more than four years."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ghost Mikael Eriksson\/M Industries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOURCE: BILLBOARD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghost<\/a> grabs the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200<\/a> albums chart for the first time, as the Swedish hard rock band\u2019s new studio effort Skelet\u00e1<\/em> debuts atop the tally (dated May 10) with 86,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending May 1, according to Luminate. Of the album\u2019s starting sum, 89% was driven by traditional album sales \u2014 buoyed by a big vinyl sales figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skelet\u00e1 <\/em>launches with Ghost\u2019s best week ever by both equivalent album units and traditional album sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skelet\u00e1\u00a0<\/em>marks the ninth charted effort for the group on the\u00a0Billboard<\/a>\u00a0200. The band first visited the list in 2013 with its second album,\u00a0Infestissumam<\/em>, which also marked the act\u2019s first top 40-charting set, reaching No. 28.\u00a0Skelet\u00e1\u00a0<\/em>scores Ghost its eighth top 40 set, and fifth to reach the top 10. The band had previously gone as high as No. 2 with its last full-length studio album, 2022\u2019s\u00a0Impera<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Billboard 200<\/a> chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 10, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on May 6. For all chart news<\/a>, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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