BABYMETAL has made their historic debut on the Billboard 200 with METAL FORTH landing at #9 on the chart. The group earns their highest-charting album in the U.S. and becomes the first all-Japanese fronted group to make the Top 10 with this colossal career milestone.
BABYMETAL has become an internationally recognized force that continues to reshape the modern metal scene since their formation in 2010. Garnering over 200 million global streams and selling 36,000 equivalent album units in its first week, the boundary-pushing record stands for “beyond metal” and delivers a bold effort to foster the genre’s dynamic evolution. In addition to the Billboard 200, METAL FORTH also achieved massive success on a global scale with a Top 10 album in Germany, Top 20 in the UK and #1 on the Digital Albums chart and #3 on the overall Oricon chart back home in Japan. BABYMETAL expresses their gratitude, sharing,
“Thank you so much for your support on our new album METAL FORTH around the world! We hope you enjoy it! Our music & career are evolving globally, and we are moving forward with “Beyond HEAVY METAL.” Our journey continues, and we can’t wait to see you at BABYMETAL shows in your city and your country.”
METAL FORTH features collaborations from a number of monumental names in modern metal, including Spiritbox, Poppy, Tom Morello, Bloodywood, Electric Callboy, Polyphia, and Slaughter To Prevail. The release of the genre-defying record followed BABYMETAL’s completion of a massive North American headline tour in July, with stops in major cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and more. The group will embark on their largest headline arena show in the U.S. to date at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, CA this fall. Tickets and information for the show can be found here.
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