Ghost have become the hard rock act in four years to top the Billboard 200 albums chart. Their latest record, Skeletá, debut this week at No. 1, topping releases by SZA, Kendrick Lamar, Morgan Wallen, Bad Bunny, and more.
Perhaps most impressive, of the 86,000 equivalent album units moved by Skeletá in its first week of release, 89% of that total was driven by traditional album sales, including 44,000 vinyl copies sold. According to Billboard, that 44,000 number not only marks the biggest vinyl sales week for a hard rock album in the modern era (since tracking began in 1991), but it’s the third largest sales week of vinyl in the modern era for any rock album, trailing only blink-182’s One More Time… (49,000 in 2023) and boygenius’ The Record (45,000 in 2023).
Skeletá is the first hard rock album to go No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since AC/DC’s Power Up in 2020. It terms of general rock releases, Coldplay’s Moon Music was the last album to top the chart in October 2024.
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Ghost will support Skeletá by embarking on a US arena tour this summer; get tickets here.
Ghost 2025 US Tour Dates:
07/09 – Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena
07/11 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
07/12 – Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena
07/13 – Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center
07/15 – Raleigh, NC @ Lenovo Center
07/17 – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
07/18 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
07/19 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
07/21 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
07/22 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
07/24 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
07/25 – Louisville, KY @ KFC Yum! Center
07/26 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
07/28 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena
07/29 – Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum
07/30 – St. Louis, MO @ Enterprise Center
08/01 – Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
08/02 – Saint Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
08/03 – Omaha, NE @ CHI Health Center
08/05 – Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Center
08/07 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
08/09 – Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena
08/10 – San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
08/11 – Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
08/14 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center
08/15 – Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
08/16 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
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