Final week, My Chemical Romance landed their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with the twentieth anniversary reissue of their seminal third LP: The Black Parade. Apparently, famend pop star Olivia Rodrigo not directly helped them do it by permitting her third LP (you appear fairly unhappy for a woman so in love) to fall to No. 2.
How Olivia Rodrigo Helped MCR Land Their First No. 1 Album
As Loudwire wrote on Fb final Monday (Nov. 2), the brand new model of The Black Parade (which peaked at No. 2 again in 2006) can be “the first-ever anniversary album to prime the Billboard 200 Album Chart.”
Per Billboard (on Nov. 1), the document “leap[ed] from No. 139 to No. 1 on the Nov. 7-dated chart.”
They added:
Within the week ending Oct. 29, it earned 78,000 equal album items in america (up 653%) based on Luminate — largely pushed by pure album gross sales (68,000, up 2,082%). . . . The Black Parade’s 20-year-wait to succeed in No. 1 is the longest ever for an album, surpassing the 15-year and nine-month anticipate Toby Keith’s 35 Greatest Hits, following his loss of life in 2024.
Billboard then defined that Rodrigo’s newest studio assortment – which arrived this previous June and held the No. 1 spot for 3 weeks – dropped “a rung [last week] to No. 2 (64,000 equal album items earned, down 15%).”
Quite than be upset about this, nonetheless, The New York Instances acknowledged (on Nov. 5) that Rodrigo not directly allowed MCR to take the highest spot from her.
After mentioning that Rodrigo was influenced by The Black Parade, The New York Instances clarified that she attended a present throughout MCR’s 2026 tour commemorating the document: “Rodrigo was an attendee of a New York tour cease, posting to Instagram tales the band’s ‘Black Parade’ title-track efficiency together with a number of coronary heart emoji.” The publication famous that “Rodrigo visited the band the evening of the present” as nicely.
You may see Rodrigo’s Instagram Story right here and under (reposted by consumer girlsoinlove.updates):
The New York Instances then clarified that MCR’s supervisor – Brian Schechter – “interpreted her public help for the band as a selfless act.”
“She might simply attempt to block the band from being No. 1, however from all the pieces I noticed, she didn’t do something. . . . She simply let it organically play out” Schechter mentioned [via The New York Times]. Followers speculate that Rodrigo might’ve finished a number of issues to maintain her chart crown, together with doing her personal album reissue and/or placing out recent (different) variations of you appear fairly unhappy for a woman so in love.
As a substitute, she not directly handed the torch to My Chemical Romance (who, so far as we are able to inform, haven’t mentioned something publicly about The Black Parade incomes them their first No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200).
READ MORE: My Chemical Romance Verify 2027 Plans for New Album + ‘Most likely’ No Exhibits
Different MCR Information
My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Manner shared some massive information concerning the group’s 2027 plans throughout their Oct. 30 present on the Hollywood Bowl. Particularly, and as Loudwire reported final week, he introduced that MCR are planning to “make a brand new document” and “most likely not [do] any exhibits” subsequent 12 months.
Following their efficiency of “DESTROYA,” Manner declared:
, typically shit will sound, like, deliberately imprecise, when actually it’s simply to guard everyone’s emotions concerned. So, yeah. Subsequent 12 months, we wanna go make a document. We’re most likely not doing any exhibits [in 2027]. There’s no secret code to that. I imply, perhaps if we get actually rusty after we’re making one thing, we’re like, “Alright, let’s name the band ‘Helena’ or one thing and present up.” However, you realize, critically. We wish to go try this after which hopefully, we’ll see you guys in 2028.
, ‘trigger that’s another shit I simply wanna get out of the best way, man! Let’s have enjoyable. You need to have enjoyable! You don’t wanna be stressed, considering, like, “Oh, what does this quantity on his field imply?” We really don’t actually try this shit. Are you aware how a lot of that shit is coincidence?
On the finish of October, My Chemical Romance additionally launched a mysterious and transient animated movie known as Prelude to the Finish.
As Loudwire described:
‘Prelude to the Finish’ is a virtually eight-minute animated movie that follows a woman named Astrid who seems to be in a mysterious college that’s led by some questionable characters. It is darkish in the identical vein because the presentation for ‘The Black Parade’ album. The mission is a collaborative effort between My Chemical Romance and visible artist and actor Lauren Tsai. Fellow musicians Phoebe Bridgers and Billie Eilish are among the many voice actors, together with Japanese online game producer Hideo Kojima.
Numerous fan theories about Prelude to the Finish shortly emerged, together with that it confirms that MCR’s subsequent document would be the long-rumored The Paper Kingdom and/or that the tracklist to the subsequent document Is hiding within the video.
Oh, and folks have been discovering one-of-a-kind items of artwork inside sure copies of the Black Parade twentieth anniversary reissue. Fairly cool, proper?!
Is The Black Parade your favourite MCR LP? What do you consider Rodrigo’s oblique involvement in it reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200? Tell us!
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