Direct From Hollywood With Ryan Seacrest: A Very Unlikely Artist Just Claimed #1 Album

It’s been 4 years since a rock group claimed the #1 album in America. Can you guess who it is?? Find out with Ryan Seacrest here!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It wasn't that long ago when rock bands regularly dominated
the chart, but in recent years, POPPYDM and hip hop
have had an exclusive hold on number one on Billboard's
Album's two hundred. But the drought is officially over, and
it's by a relatively surprising group. Swedish hard rockers Ghost
claim this week's number one spot, making them the first
rock band in over four years to do so with
their new offering Skeleton, despite goes not being mainstream or

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receiving much radio play, so how they do it? Big
Factor is a devoted fan base which has been steadily
building for two decades, but a stroke of genius was
made by their visionary label, Luma Vista Records, offering more
than a dozen vinyl variants of Ghost albums, encouraging collectors
to take advantage. The results an unbelievable eighty nine percent
of their tally coming from physical album sales.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's direct from Hollywood.