![]() They had big riffs, hard-punching electronic rhythms, and their choruses were meant to be shouted. Unlike Korn or Limp Bizkit, though, their music and aesthetic never owed much to hip-hop Disturbed was more of an industrial metal act, unsurprising for four guys from Chicago, home of Wax Trax! Records (Ministry/Revolting Cocks, Front 242, KMFDM et al.). When they first arrived on the scene at the turn of the millennium, they were seen as nu-metal also-rans with a singer who made hilarious monkey noises. After five straight #1 albums with a style that, love it or hate it, is all their own, they’re being beaten out by a bunch of kids ripping off Led Zeppelin and pre-Neil Peart Rush?ĭisturbed have always succeeded in the face of negative critical expectations. On that chart, Greta Van Fleet is #1, Disturbed is #2, and A Star Is Born is #3…and, amazingly enough, former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley has a top 10 debut his Spaceman squeaked in at #9. If you take that position, there’s a chart for you the Top Album Sales list is all about physical music (and paid downloads). Now, you could argue that Billboard ’s insistence on counting streams as sales is literally a false equivalency. Disturbed sold 65,000 CDs, and got 6,000 album equivalent units, bringing their first-week total to 71,000. Greta Van Fleet’s album was credited with 87,000 copies in its first week of release, of which 80,000 units were traditional sales, and the rest were streaming equivalent units. 8,000 of those came from conventional album sales, while the rest were “album equivalent units,” meaning streams that Billboard counts as sales. The Future & Juice WRLD album was credited with 98,000 equivalent units. An impressive showing…unless you’re Disturbed, whose previous five albums had all debuted at #1, an achievement they share with Metallica and the Dave Matthews Band. It was their first collection of new material in three years, following 2015’s Immortalized, debuting on the Billboard 200 at #4, behind the A Star is Born soundtrack (in its third week at #1) and two other debuts: Future & Juice WRLD’s WRLD ON DRUGS, and Greta Van Fleet’s Anthem of the Peaceful Army. On October 19, Chicago metal band Disturbed released their seventh studio album, Evolution. ![]()
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