Coheed and Cambria has its fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart, debuting atop the March 29-dated ranking with The Father of Make Believe.
The new set bows with 16,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 20, according to Luminate. A total of 12,000 units of that sum are via album sales, including 7,000 vinyl copies, leading to a No. 4 start on Vinyl Albums.
Coheed and Cambria first ruled Top Hard Rock Albums, which began in 2007, in 2010 with Year of the Black Rainbow. Its other leaders include 2015’s The Color Before the Sun, 2018’s The Unheavenly Creatures and 2022’s Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind.
Concurrently, The Father of Make Believe starts at No. 8 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart, Coheed and Cambria’s eighth top 10. On the all-genre Billboard 200, it begins at No. 51, the Claudio Sanchez-led band’s 11th entry, dating back to the No. 52 debut and peak of In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 in 2003.
Three songs from The Father of Make Believe reach the multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs tally, “Goodbye, Sunshine” leading the trio at No. 16 via 607,000 official U.S. streams.
An additional track, lead single “Someone Who Can,” rises to a new peak of No. 24 on Alternative Airplay. Upon its debut in February, it became Coheed and Cambria’s first appearance on the tally in nearly 15 years and is now its highest charting song since “The Running Free” peaked at No. 19 in 2007.
