The band’s sixth studio set debuts on the Billboard 200 album chart at No. 1 with accrued sales of 86,000 in the week since its April 25 release via Loma Vista Recordings.
Of “Skeleta”’s first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 77,000, SEA (streaming equivalent albums) units comprise 9,000 (equaling 12.45 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA (track equivalent albums) units comprise a negligible sum. The set’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across more than 15 vinyl variants, three CD variants and four cassette variants (all containing the same tracklist, but in collectible packaging).
With “Skeleta” scoring 9,000 in SEA units (12.45 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs), the group logs its biggest streaming week ever for an album as it surpasses the opening-week of “Impera” (7,000 SEA; 9.11 million streams for its songs).
In addition to being the first time a hard rock album has topped the Billboard 200 since 2020, “Skeleta” has racked up the biggest sales week for a rock, hard rock or alternative album in 2025 – as well as the biggest vinyl sales week for any hard rock LP since the dawn of the “Luminate” era in 1991 and the most for any rock album since 2023.
Currently the world's biggest-selling album and the week's lone Top 10 debut, “Skeleta” also debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Album, Vinyl Album, Indie Store Album, Independent Album, Rock Album, Rock and Alternative Album, and Hard Rock Album charts.
Internationally, the album bowed at No. 1 in the band’s native Sweden as well as Germany, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Finland, No. 2 in the UK, Netherlands and Norway, No. 4 in France and No. 6 in Ireland, among others.
Ghost recently launched a world tour in support of the 2025 record on April 15 in Manchester, UK.
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