Iron Maiden earns its top charting album ever on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Sept. 18), as its most up-to-date studio effort Senjutsu debuts at No. 3. The damaged-down laborious rock band beforehand peaked at No. 4 with its last two studio releases: The Book of Souls (in 2015) and The Final Frontier (2010). In total, Senjutsu is Iron Maiden’s 15th high 40-charting album (relationship to its first, The Preference of the Beast, in 1982), of which four devour hit the tip 10.
Of Senjutsu’s 64,000 similar album objects earned, album gross sales comprise 61,000 (making it the tip-selling album of the week), SEA objects comprise 3,000 (equaling 3.57 million on-demand streams of the jam’s 10 tracks) and TEA objects comprise a negligible sum.
Senjutsu logs the 2nd-largest week of 2021 for a laborious rock album in each and every similar album objects earned and in frail album gross sales. It trails ideal Foo Opponents’ Medicine at Tiresome night, which debuted on the Feb. 20 chart with 70,000 objects (of which 64,000 had been in album gross sales). (Exhausting rock albums are defined as other folks which devour charted on Billboard’s Exhausting Rock Albums chart.)
