There were over 35 hard rock and metal albums that went No. 1 in the 2000s. We don't see hard rock and metal top the Billboard 200 very often anymore. As of May 2025, Ghost's Skeleta is only the ...

A hard rock album is No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the ... Writing a song that embodies hope, sorrow, regret, hate, love.” Ghost are currently on the road in support of Skeleta.

by either equivalent album units or traditional album sales, for any rock, hard rock or alternative album since AC/DC’s “Power Up” hit the apex with 117,000 equivalent album units in 2020.

Idol discussed with The Associated Press this week his new album and forthcoming documentary, his past struggles with addiction, his first-ever Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ... And you can sing about it.

So this week’s chart — with Swedish hard rock band Ghost, as shadowy and mysterious as its name implies, coming in at No. 1 with its latest album Skeletá — may seem like an anomaly to most ...

At the time, the band said Meine was “unable to sing” due to suspected laryngitis. Meine, 76, has been the Scorpions’ lead vocalist since 1969. The German rock band released its first album ...

The band's Skeletá is the first hard rock set at No. 1 since late 2020. By Keith Caulfield When Ghost’s new studio album Skeletá debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated May 10), it not ...

A rock legend is reuniting with his original bandmates to release their first new album in more than 50 years. Alice Cooper’s forthcoming album, “The Revenge of Alice Cooper,” will feature ...

the garage rock band they fronted in the mid- and late ‘60s. It's a lovely though low-key introduction to a moving album. The title track of Devils & Dust finds two soldiers in the desert ...

As of right now, that LP is the band’s first #1 hit in America, and it’s broken a hard-rock vinyl sales record in the process. Billboard reports that Ghost’s SKELETÁ moved 86,000 album ...

Metallica lead singer James Hetfield told Classic Rock in 2009 that he didn’t like the photo, saying he just went along with it despite feeling icky about it. If this album came out today ...