Make room, Metallica. Set apart your hysteria, Def Leppard. And here is another excuse so that you can salute, AC/DC. There’s now a fourth rock band that has scored a Top 10 album on the Billboard 200 album charts in 5 straight a long time. That honor goes to U2.
The album that did it for U2 was Songs of Surrender, which arrived at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart earlier this month. The album options re-recorded variations of a few of U2’s largest songs, with the band releasing up to date variations of “Pride,” “With Or Without You,” “One” and “Beautiful Day” forward of the album’s launch.
The band’s first Top 10 album got here in 1987 with The Joshua Tree, which truly topped the Billboard 200 Album Chart. Their 1988 follow-up Rattle and Hum album hit No. 1. The chart-topping Achtung Baby hit No. 1 in 1991 caring for the ’90s. Their different ’90s albums, Zooropa and Pop, additionally hit No. 1. In 2000, All That You Can’t Leave Behind peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and No Line on the Horizon additionally hit No. 1. Then, in the 2010s, 2014’s Songs of Innocence hit No. 9, and the 2017 follow-up, Songs of Experience, debuted at No. 1.
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Metallica Have a Top 10 Album in Five Straight Decades
So U2 have a Top 10 Album in 5 straight a long time, however who else does? Well, Metallica are a part of that very choose membership. The band’s first Top 10 was 1988’s …And Justice for All. They scored their first chart-topper with 1991’s self-titled “Black Album,” whereas Load and Re-Load additionally topped the charts and the S&M stay album hit No. 2 in the ’90s.
The 2000s gave us the chart-topping St. Anger in 2003, together with 2008’s chart-topping Death Magnetic. Metallica’s Hardwired … to Self-Destruct then hit No. 1 in 2016. The band then entered the “five decade” membership when their S&M2 stay album arrived at No. 4 in 2020.
Def Leppard Have a Top 10 Album in Five Straight Decades
You can add Def Leppard to the beautiful uncommon membership as effectively. They scored their first Top 10 album on their third attempt with 1983’s Pyromania. The album topped out at No. 2. Their 1987 follow-up Hysteria turned their first chart-topper. They bought off on the proper foot in the ’90s hitting No. 1 with 1992’s Adrenalize.
They fell again a bit on the charts for a interval till 2008’s Songs From the Sparkle Lounge gave them their first twenty first Century Top 10, touchdown at No. 5. Their self-titled 2015 effort simply made the lower at No. 10, whereas 2022’s Diamond Star Halos additionally peaked at No. 10.
AC/DC Have a Top 10 Album in Six Straight Decades
You learn that proper! AC/DC have a Top 10 album in six straight a long time. They truly take issues again a decade earlier, hitting No. 3 in 1976 with Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. Back in Black hit No. 4 in 1980, whereas For Those About to Rock hit No. 1 in 1981. The Razors Edge kicked off the ’90s in 1990 at No. 2, with 1994’s Ballbreaker hitting No. 4. In 2000, Stiff Upper Lip hit No. 7, with Black Ice topping the charts in 2008. Rock or Bust topped at at No. 3 in 2014. And Power Up completed up the run of six straight a long time with a Top 10 at No. 1 in 2020.
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