My Chemical Romance Returns To No. 1 Decades After First Ruling

Two decades aft first hitting No. 1, My Chemical Romance's 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge' returns to the apical of the U.K.'s stone and metallic albums chart. MILAN, ITALY - NOVEMBER 21: My Chemical Romance posed backstage successful Milan connected November 21 2006. L-R Ray Toro, Frank Iero,Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Bob Bryar (Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns)

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Earlier this summer, My Chemical Romance knowledgeable a monolithic bump connected the charts successful the United Kingdom arsenic the group continued its Long Live The Black Parade tour, which began past summertime and is not group to extremity until this fall. My Chemical Romance played aggregate shows passim the U.K. opening successful June, hitting cities for illustration Liverpool, Glasgow and London earlier venturing backmost to America, and that uptick successful income and streams diminished aft the set near the nation.

It seems British fans are not done pinch their emotion of each things My Chemical Romance, though. This week, aggregate projects by the group summation crushed aliases return to various tallies, while 1 of its astir beloved albums surges backmost to No. 1 connected a database the rockers person ruled aggregate times successful the past.

My Chemical Romance Returns to No. 1

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge jumps from 5th spot to No. 1 connected the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart this clip around. The task returns to the acme connected the genre-specific roster arsenic it approaches 400 weeks connected the ranking of the most-consumed stone and metallic releases successful the country.

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge First Ruled More Than 20 Years Ago

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge brought My Chemical Romance to the Official Rock & Metal Albums floor plan for the first clip much than 2 decades ago, erstwhile it debuted connected the roster backmost successful September 2004. It took until April 2005 for the group to first scope the No. 1 spot, and it spent 2 weeks astatine the acme that year.

The medium would not find its measurement backmost to the throne until the summertime of 2025 – 2 decades aft it first ruled – and now, astir a twelvemonth aft vacating the highest position again, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge returns to the penthouse. For overmuch of the clip successful betwixt its stints successful charge, the task has taken up abstraction wrong the apical 10.

My Chemical Romance Has Landed Six No. 1 Albums

Eight My Chemical Romance releases person charted connected the Official Rock & Metal Albums ranking passim the decades, and the group has not added a caller title to its beingness connected the roster successful conscionable nether a decade. All but 2 of those projects person reached No. 1.

With 4 weeks successful charge, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge stands unsocial arsenic the band’s second-longest-running champion. Only The Black Parade, pinch 11 turns astatine the summit, has ruled for longer.

Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is the only different My Chemical Romance merchandise to walk aggregate frames astatine No. 1, pinch conscionable 2 successful the spotlight to its credit. The Black Parade Is Dead!, Life connected the Murder Scene and May Death Never Stop You person besides led the complaint for a time, though each managed conscionable a azygous play successful first place.

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge Returns to Two More Charts

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge besides mounts a comeback this week successful the U.K. arsenic it returns to the Official Physical Albums and Official Albums Sales charts astatine Nos. 83 and 91, respectively. Coincidentally, the medium has peaked astatine No. 5 connected some purchase-focused rankings.

My Chemical Romance Fills the Rock Chart’s Top 10

My Chemical Romance fills 3 spaces connected the Official Rock & Metal Albums floor plan this frame, and each of those bestsellers unrecorded wrong the apical 10. As Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge takes complete astatine No. 1 again, Danger Days vaults from No. 11 to No. 3, breaking backmost into the uppermost tier. The Black Parade besides improves, rising 2 spaces to No. 7.

Danger Days Rises connected Multiple Charts

Danger Days gains crushed connected each 3 rankings successful the U.K. wherever it tin beryllium recovered this week. In summation to its climb connected the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart, the full-length steps up from No. 77 to No. 54 connected the Official Physical Albums tally and from No. 84 to No. 57 connected the Official Albums Sales ranking. The Black Parade moves successful different directions connected those aforesaid 2 purchase-focused lists, inching up 1 rung connected the physical-only roster while slipping somewhat connected the much all-encompassing income chart.