"Focusing on Ghost's fan community has allowed us ... By Dan Rys So far in 2025, the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 albums chart has regularly been filled with some familiar faces: SZA, Lil ...

By Keith Caulfield Ghost grabs the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time, as the Swedish hard rock band’s new studio effort Skeletá debuts atop the tally (dated May 10 ...

This week, for the upcoming Billboard 200 dated May 10, we look at the chances of Ghost’s Skeletá to top the chart – or whether a late-registering rap superstar may sneak in ahead of them.

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This week the lore-rich, genre-smashing, entirely anonymous hard-rock band Sleep Token lands its first-ever No. 1 album. Elsewhere, on the Hot 100 singles chart, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" ...

The fact that Sleep Token and Ghost arrived with their first Billboard 200 bestsellers in 2025 suggests that there’s a changing of the guard in the genre, where still-rising acts can hit chart ...