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Billy Idol Lands First Top 10 on Billboard’s Album Sales Chart With ‘Dream Into It’

Billy Idol lands his first top 10-charting effort ever on Billboard’s nearly 34-year-old Top Album Sales chart, as his new album Dream Into It debuts at No. 7 on the May 10-dated chart. The project is the iconic rocker’s first full-length studio project in over a decade, since 2014’s Kings & Queens of the Underground.

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Dream Into It also debuts on the Vinyl Albums (No. 19), Indie Store Album Sales (No. 21) and Independent Albums (No. 41) charts.

Elsewhere in the top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart, the latest releases from Ghost, Grateful Dead, d4vd, Tucker Wetmore, Goose and Viagra Boys all debut in the region.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.

Dream Into It sold 6,500 copies in the United States in the week ending May 1, according to Luminate – largely driven by physical purchases (about 2,500 on vinyl and 3,500 on CD). Digital download purchases comprised about 500 copies.

Dream Into It is Idol’s 10th charting title on the Top Album Sales chart, which began in 1991. In that span of time, he had previously gone has high as No. 12 with the 2021 EP The Roadside.

Idol has a long history on Billboard’s charts, including a dozen charting titles each on the Billboard 200 (dating back to 1981) and Billboard Hot 100 songs charts, as well as 16 entries on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

Also on the latest Top Album Sales chart, rock band Ghost nabs its second No. 1 with its best sales week ever, as Skeletá debut atop the list with 77,000 copies sold. Grateful Dead’s latest archival live set, Dave’s Picks Volume 54: Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD – 3/26/73, bows at No. 2 with 19,500 copies sold. It’s the 46th top 10-charting set for the act on Top Album Sales. Rounding out the top three is d4vd’s new Withered, starting with 14,500 copies – the first top 10 and best sales week for the act.

Tucker Wetmore’s What Not to debuts at No. 4 with 7,500 (his first top 10 and best sales week), Kendrick Lamar’s former No. 1 GNX slips 3-5 (nearly 7,500; down 7%), Goose gets its first top 10 and best sales week with the start of Everything Must Go at No. 6 (7,000) and Viagra Boys round out the debuts in the top 10 as Viagr Aboys bows at No. 8 with 6,500 (the first top 10 and best sales week for the act).

Closing out the top 10 are two former leaders: Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet slips 2-9 (nearly 6,500; down 24%) and Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM falls 4-10 (5,000; down 23%).

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