Twenty One Pilots Lead Top Rock Albums Chart With ‘Clancy’
Twenty One Pilots and Bring Me the Horizon score new No. 1s on Billboard’s rock album charts dated June 8, with the former’s Clancy debuting atop the Top Rock Albums survey and the latter’s Post Human: Next Gen entering atop the Top Hard Rock Albums list.
Clancy bows with 143,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 30, according to Luminate. The sum largely encompasses 113,000 album sales and 29,000 streaming-equivalent units. The week is the biggest in units for any title on Top Rock Albums in 2024 and the best since Zach Bryan’s self-titled LP started with 200,000 on the Sept. 9, 2023, survey.
Clancy marks Twenty One Pilots’ fourth Top Rock Albums leader. The duo first led with Blurryface in 2015, followed by 2018’s Trench and 2021’s Scaled and Icy.
The new set also begins at No. 2 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Alternative Albums, where Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft reigns for a second week (145,000 units).
On the all-genre Billboard 200, Clancy debuts at No. 3, the act’s third top three entry.
The entirety of Clancy’s 13-song tracklist reaches the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, led by “The Craving” at No. 20 with 5.9 million official U.S. streams, 3.9 million radio audience impressions and 1,000 downloads sold. The song, the latest promoted single from the LP, concurrently debuts at Nos. 23 and 40 on Alternative Airplay and Pop Airplay, respectively. Lead single “Overcompensate” peaked at No. 2 on Alternative Airplay in May.
Bring Me the Horizon’s Post Human: Next Gen starts at No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart with 19,000 units. It’s the band’s second leader, following That’s the Spirit for a week in 2015.
Post Human: Next Gen also begins at No. 10 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, marking the Oli Sykes-fronted act’s sixth top 10, all logged since 2010’s There Is a Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let’s Keep It a Secret.
“Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood,” the new album’s latest radio single, concurrently debuts at No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs with 2.6 million streams and 266,000 airplay audience impressions. It also starts at No. 39 on Mainstream Rock Airplay.
Kevin Rutherford
Billboard