It's been four years since a hard rock band topped the Billboard 200 albums chart - and far longer since such a band did so without having decades of hits already to its name. But this week, Ghost puts an end to both of those droughts.

Ghost earns its first No. 1 album on the all-genre-inclusive Billboard 200 albums chart with "Skeletá." Their sixth studio album claims the biggest opening week, by either equivalent album units or traditional album sales,

Ghost have become the first hard rock band to top the US album chart since AC/DC 's Power Up in 2020. New album Skeletá sold 86,000 equivalent album units (a total that includes physical sales, downloads and streams) during its first week of release.