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My Chemical Romance Earns Its First No. 1 Album
My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade reissue reached No.
1 on the Billboard 200, giving the band its first chart-topper.
The release marks the album’s 20th anniversary and is the first anniversary album to top the chart.
The reissue rose from No.
139 to No.
1, earning 78,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Oct.
29.
Its total included 68,000 pure album sales.
Olivia Rodrigo’s album fell to No.
2 with 64,000 equivalent album units, after holding the top spot for three weeks.
Rodrigo has said publicly that she admires the band, and attended a New York show on its 2026 tour celebrating the album.
Her album’s drop opened the way for MCR to take No.
1, though the band’s manager said she did not try to prevent it.
MCR plans to make a new record in 2027 and will probably not play shows that year.
My Chemical Romance reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the first time with the 20th-anniversary reissue of The Black Parade.
The album rose from No. 139 to No. 1 on the chart dated Nov. 7.
It earned 78,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Oct. 29.
Olivia Rodrigo’s album fell to No. 2, and MCR’s manager said she did not try to block the band’s chart rise.
The Black Parade’s 20-year wait to reach No. 1 was described as the longest ever for an album.
- Who
- My Chemical Romance.
- What
- The 20th-anniversary reissue of The Black Parade reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving the band its first chart-topper.
- When
- It reached No. 1 on the chart dated Nov. 7; the album units were counted for the week ending Oct. 29.
- Where
- The Billboard 200 chart in the United States.
- Why
- The album earned 78,000 equivalent album units, largely driven by pure album sales.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The Black Parade earned 78,000 equivalent album units in the United States.
Billboard reported that the album rose from No. 139 to No. 1 on the chart dated Nov. 7.
The New York Times reported that Olivia Rodrigo attended a My Chemical Romance show and publicly supported the band.
- Chart position
- No. 1 on the Billboard 200
- Album
- The Black Parade 20th-anniversary reissue
- Units
- 78,000 equivalent album units in the United States
- Pure album sales
- 68,000
- Chart week
- Week ending Oct. 29
What people are saying
She could easily try to block the band from being No. 1, but from everything I saw, she didn’t do anything. . . . She just let it organically play out
jump[ed] from No. 139 to No. 1 on the Nov. 7-dated chart.