GHOST
#1 ON THE BILLBOARD 200
First Hard Rock Album to Top the Chart in More Than Four Years
Transcending genre and defying trends, GHOSTâs SKELETÃ has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The #1 album in the country, SKELETÃ accrued sales of 86,000 in the week since its April 25 release via Loma Vista Recordings.
Currently the worldâs biggest-selling album and the weekâs lone Top 10 debut, SKELETÃâs first week haul bests the nearly 70,000 moved by its predecessor IMPERA in its first week of release. SKELETÃ also landed at #1 on the U.S. Album, Vinyl Album, Indie Store Album, Independent Album, Rock Album, Rock and Alternative Album, and Hard Rock Album charts. Internationally, the album bowed at #1 in the GRAMMY-winning theatrical rock outfitâs native Sweden as well as Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Finland, #2 in the UK, Netherlands and Norway, #4 in France and #6 in Ireland, among others.
In addition to being the first time a hard rock album has topped the Billboard 200 since 2020, SKELETÃ has racked up the biggest sales week for a rock, hard rock or alternative album in 2025âas well as the biggest vinyl sales week for any hard rock LP since the dawn of the Luminate era in 1991 and the most for any rock album since 2023.
The coming of SKELETÃ was heralded by three singles/videos that trended Top 10 on YouTube, as GHOST garnered #1 spots on Tik Tokâs #NewMusic, iTunes and Amazonâs Best Sellers. First up was âSatanizedââdubbed a âcatchy goth-rock epicâ by VICE, followed by the âLachrymaââa fixture on Spotify’s Viral Charts, both globally and in key territories like the US, UK, Germany, and more deemed âeconomical, vicious, and contemporary, but tinged by â80s rhapsodyâ by PASTE and âphantasmagoricâ by REVOLVER, and âPeacefield,â the monolithic anthem opening both the new record and GHOSTâs massive live rituals on its current SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025.
Featuring the flesh and bone debut of frontman Papa V Perpetua and having sold half a million tickets and counting, the SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 kicks off a North American swing that will begin July 9 in Baltimore and include GHOST’s historic first-ever headlining show at New Yorkâs Madison Square Garden on July 22. With more shows to be announced soon, the SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 ritual experience promises to expand the GHOST community to attract its largest and most diverse audiences to date. From lifelong disciples to the curious uninitiated first-timers to the outcasts and others who find solace in the ritual, all are welcome to escape the travails of daily life and to become one with the enthralling GHOST ritual. Tune into the bandâs own GTV for exclusive coverage of all things GHOST and SKELETOUR, as host Vanessa Warwick welcomes any and all to join the Ghoulbangersâ Ball for in-depth and behind the scenes coverage available only HERE.
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