Sleep Token have debuted at #1 overall on the Billboard 200 with their new album “Even In Arcadia”. The chart-topping achievement marks the first in the band’s career. Sleep Token joins elite company as one of the few hard rock bands to ever top the Billboard Charts. Ghost recently did it with “Skeletá” and was the first hard rock bandto reach #1 on the Billboard 200 since AC/DC’s 2020 release Power Up.
Of “Even In Arcadia”‘s 127,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 73,500, SEA units comprise 53,000 and TEA units comprise 500. According to Billboard, the streaming numbers mark the largest streaming week ever for a hard rock album.
“Even In Arcadia” sold 47,000 vinyl copies, marking the largest vinyl sales week for a hard rock album on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991) — more than GHOST‘s “Skeletá”, which sold 44,000 vinyl copies in its first week.
