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The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart
The Rolling Stones’ new studio album, Foreign Tongues, has debuted at number one on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, giving the band its first leader on the 35-year-old pure-sales ranking. The result also reinforces the group’s unusually long chart legacy, as the album enters the Billboard 200 at number seven and delivers their record-extending 39th top-10 album there.
Foreign Tongues reached the top 10 of six US Billboard album charts, including number two on Top Rock Albums and number three on Vinyl Albums and Indie Store Album Sales. Billboard’s sales chart counts physical and digital album purchases only; elsewhere in the top 10, the Heated Rivalry soundtrack and My Chemical Romance’s reissued Danger Days both appeared at number three, while albums by YEONJUN, Jack White and Future also debuted.
In short
- The Rolling Stones score their first Top Album Sales number one.
- Foreign Tongues becomes their 39th Billboard 200 top-10 album.
- The album also charted highly across rock, vinyl and indie sales.
Explained simply
The Rolling Stones are one of the most influential and longest-lasting rock bands in history, with a recording career that began in the 1960s and continues to the present day. Their continued commercial and critical success across multiple decades is considered remarkably rare in the music industry.
Billboard publishes multiple album charts measuring different aspects of commercial performance, including a chart dedicated specifically to physical and digital sales. This sales-only chart operates differently from the main Billboard 200, which incorporates streaming data alongside purchase figures.
The band has an exceptionally long history of chart success, with numerous albums reaching the top 10 of the main Billboard 200 across their career. This sustained commercial appeal, combined with their cultural significance, means that new Rolling Stones album releases remain noteworthy events for the music industry and their global audience.
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