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My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Black Parade’ Finally Tops the Billboard 200: See What Else Was in the Top 10 When It First Debuted in 2006
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My Chemical Romance’s *The Black Parade* has risen from No. 139 to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, 20 years after its release. The album reached the top in its 162nd week on the chart, after a 20th anniversary deluxe edition renewed interest in it.
The deluxe edition adds six tracks to the original 14: three B-sides and three live recordings. When the album debuted at No. 2 in November 2006, it was edged out by the *Hannah Montana* soundtrack. That week’s top 10 featured five rock bands, while six albums produced at least one top 10 hit on the Hot 100.
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In short
- *The Black Parade* reaches No. 1 in its 162nd chart week.
- A 20th anniversary deluxe edition helped lift the album.
- It originally debuted at No. 2 in 2006.
How this story developed
- 2 minutes ago My Chemical Romance’s *The Black Parade* has reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, rising from No. 139 in its 162nd week on the chart. Its 2006 debut had come close, opening at No.
- 28 minutes ago My Chemical Romance’s *The Black Parade* has risen from No. 139 to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, 20 years after its release. The album reached the top in its 162nd week on the chart, after a 20th anniversary deluxe edition renewed interest in it.
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- Billboard My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Black Parade’ Finally Tops the Billboard 200: See What Else Was in the Top 10 When It First Debuted in 2006
- Consequence My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade First Anniversary Reissue to Ever Top Billboard 200
Full account
Twenty years after its release, My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade has reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the first time. The album climbed from No. 139 to the top of the chart dated 7 November 2026, in its 162nd chart week. Its anniversary deluxe edition, released on 23 October, helped drive the rise: according to Luminate figures cited in one report, the album earned 78,000 equivalent units in the week ending 29 October, with sales increasing by more than 2,000 per cent. The reissue also topped the UK Official Albums Chart dated 30 October.
The result completes a chart journey that began with a near miss. When The Black Parade entered the Billboard 200 in the week of 11 November 2006, it debuted at No. 2 behind another new entry, the Hannah Montana television soundtrack. Miley Cyrus, the programme’s star, was 13 at the time. The anniversary edition adds six tracks to the original 14: three songs previously released as B-sides — ‘Heaven Help Us’, ‘Kill All Your Friends’ and ‘My Way Home Is Through You’ — and three live recordings from the band’s 2007 tour.
The 2006 top 10 shows how varied the album market was when The Black Parade first arrived. Alongside My Chemical Romance were four other rock bands: The Killers, Nickelback, Hinder and Evanescence. The same chart also included Tony Bennett, then 80, whose guest-filled Duets: An American Classic brought together performers from several generations. Pop and hip-hop releases had a strong presence too. Justin Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveSounds produced four Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles, three of which reached No. 1; Nickelback’s All the Right Reasons produced three top 10 singles, while Diddy’s Press Play produced two. Six albums in that week’s top 10 generated at least one Hot 100 top 10 hit.
My Chemical Romance marked the new No. 1 by sharing Billboard’s announcement on Instagram Stories with black-heart emojis and Miley Cyrus’s ‘Wrecking Ball’ as the soundtrack — an apparent nod to the artist associated with the album that kept The Black Parade from the summit in 2006. Reflecting on the anniversary release, the band said it had not anticipated what the record would come to mean to its career and described the expanded edition as a collection of the material completed during those sessions. The chart milestone gives the album a new peak two decades after its original debut.
Where outlets differ
From the full account, which is AI-written from the sources:
The first report concentrates on the Billboard 200 top 10 in November 2006 and the other albums and artists it contained. The second concentrates on the anniversary reissue, its sales figures, its UK chart result and the band’s reaction. The reports agree on the album’s original No. 2 debut and its 2026 climb to No. 1.
Explained simply
The Billboard 200 ranks albums in the United States, and an album can return to the chart years after its release. My Chemical Romance are an American rock band; The Black Parade, released in 2006, was their third studio album.
The album first entered the chart at No. 2, behind the soundtrack to the television series Hannah Montana. Its anniversary reissue adds B-sides and live recordings to the original album, bringing renewed attention to its place in a chart week that featured artists from several genres and generations.
Coverage · 3 sources
- BillboardMy Chemical Romance’s ‘The Black Parade’ Finally Tops the Billboard 200: See What Else Was in the Top 10 When It First Debuted in 2006
- BillboardHere’s How My Chemical Romance Reacted to Earning Its First Billboard 200 No. 1 Album
- ConsequenceMy Chemical Romance’s Black Parade First Anniversary Reissue to Ever Top Billboard 200