Transcending style and defying tendencies, GHOST’s SKELETÁ has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The #1 album within the nation, SKELETÁ accrued gross sales of 86,000 within the week since its April 25 launch through Loma Vista Recordings.
At present the world’s biggest-selling album and the week’s lone Prime 10 debut, SKELETÁ’s first week haul bests the almost 70,000 moved by its predecessor IMPERA in its first week of launch. SKELETÁ additionally landed at #1 on the U.S. Album, Vinyl Album, Indie Retailer Album, Unbiased Album, Rock Album, Rock and Various Album, and Onerous Rock Album charts. Internationally, the album bowed at #1 within the GRAMMY-winning theatrical rock outfit’s native Sweden in addition to Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Finland, #2 within the UK, Netherlands and Norway, #4 in France and #6 in Eire, amongst others.
Along with being the primary time a tough rock album has topped the Billboard 200 since 2020, SKELETÁ has racked up the greatest gross sales week for a rock, exhausting rock or different album in 2025—in addition to the most important vinyl gross sales week for any exhausting rock LP for the reason that daybreak of the Luminate period in 1991 and essentially the most for any rock album since 2023.
The approaching of SKELETÁ was heralded by three singles/movies that trended Prime 10 on YouTube, as GHOST garnered #1 spots on Tik Tok’s #NewMusic, iTunes and Amazon’s Greatest Sellers. First up was “Satanized”—dubbed a “catchy goth-rock epic” by VICE, adopted by the “Lachryma”—a fixture on Spotify’s Viral Charts, each globally and in key territories just like the US, UK, Germany, and extra deemed “economical, vicious, and up to date, however tinged by ‘80s rhapsody” by PASTE and “phantasmagoric” by REVOLVER, and “Peacefield,” the monolithic anthem opening each the brand new document and GHOST’s large dwell rituals on its present SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025.
That includes the flesh and bone debut of frontman Papa V Perpetua and having offered half one million tickets and counting, the SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 kicks off a North American swing that may start July 9 in Baltimore and embrace GHOST’s historic first-ever headlining present at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard on July 22. With extra reveals to be introduced quickly, the SKELETOUR WORLD TOUR 2025 ritual expertise guarantees to develop the GHOST neighborhood to draw its largest and most numerous audiences so far. From lifelong disciples to the curious uninitiated first-timers to the outcasts and others who discover solace within the ritual, all are welcome to flee the travails of day by day life and to change into one with the enthralling GHOST ritual. Tune into the band’s personal GTV for unique protection of all issues GHOST and SKELETOUR, as host Vanessa Warwick welcomes any and all to hitch the Ghoulbangers’ Ball for in-depth and behind the scenes protection out there solely HERE.
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