Falling in Reverse Notches First Top Hard Rock Albums No. 1 With ‘Popular Monster’
Written by djfrosty on August 28, 2024
Falling in Reverse hits No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart for the first time, bowing atop the Aug. 31-dated survey with Popular Monster.
The set starts with 31,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Aug. 22, according to Luminate. That sum breaks down to 18,000 in album sales and 13,000 streaming equivalent units.
The Ronnie Radke-led band charted four prior entries on Top Hard Rock Albums, all of which debuted and peaked at No. 2: The Drug in Me Is You (2011), Fashionably Late (2013), Just Like You (2015) and Coming Home (2017).
Although the group logged a seven-year break between albums, some of the music on Popular Monster was released before 2024, dating as far back as the title track in 2019.
Concurrently, Popular Monster launches at No. 5 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums; all of Falling in Reverse’s albums have reached the top five, led by The Drug in Me Is You (No. 3). On the all-genre Billboard 200, the new release debuts at No. 12, the band’s highest rank; its previous top-charting title, Fashionably Late, hit No. 17.
Falling in Reverse also occupies the top four spots on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart and five of the top six. Current single “All My Life,” a co-bill with Jelly Roll, claims a ninth week at No. 1, with 2.8 million radio audience impressions, 2.2 million official U.S. streams and 1,000 sold in the week ending Aug. 22. The song led Mainstream Rock Airplay for five weeks (it’s currently No. 5) and jumps 30-27 on Alternative Airplay.
“Prequel,” the album’s opening track, follows on Hot Hard Rock Songs as the week’s top debut at No. 2 via 2.4 million streams and 2,000 sold.
Six songs from Popular Monster have hit No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs, a record haul for an album. (Bring Me the Horizon’s Post Human: Survival Horror ranks second with three leaders in 2020.) The Popular Monster title cut led upon the chart’s inception, followed by “Zombified” and “Voices in My Head” (both in 2022), “Watch the World Burn” (2023) and “Ronald” (this May-June) prior to “All My Life.”