Will My Chemical Romance Score Its First No. 1 Album Next Week (With a 20-Year-Old Album)?
Categoria: Musica
A new reissue of the emo greats' most beloved LP may propel it to the Billboard 200's top spot for the first time — if a pop star fan of the band's doesn't get in the way.
Por Billboard | 29/10/2026
On Wednesday night (Oct. 28), Olivia Rodrigo sent both millennial and Gen Z hearts aflutter by posting a live clip from My Chemical Romance ‘s set at Queens, NY’s CitiField on her IG Stories. But the home of the Mets might not be the only place where Rodrigo and MCR might be seen mixing it up this autumn. The emo greats are expected to make a huge surge on the Billboard charts next week with their 2006 masterwork The Black Parade . The still-beloved album remains frequently in the mix for the BB charts 20 years later — it sits at No. 139 on the Billboard 200 on this week’s chart (dated Oct. 31), in its 161st week total on the listing — but on Friday (Oct. 23), it received the extra boost of a 20th anniversary reissue, activating the band’s still incredibly active fanbase and making it a very interesting race for next week’s top spot. The Black Parade (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) boasts six bonus cuts in addition to the 14 tracks that comprise the LP’s standard edition — three B-sides from the Black Parade era, as well as three live tracks. Those should help drive some extra streams to the set, but will really be driving increased activity for the set is the set’s physical reissue, which includes a whopping 15 new vinyl variants (including many retail and d2c-exclusive editions), as well as multiple new variants on CD and cassette. (Anniversary reissues have played a larger role than usual in the Billboard 200’s top tier the past few months, with old albums by Beyoncé ( B’Day ), The Beatles ( Rubber Soul ) and Mac Miller ( The Divine Feminine ) all returning to the top 10 — though none truly challenging for the top spot.) Those new editions are expected to result in robust sales numbers for the set, which remains the most cherished by fans in the MCR catalog, and one of the most acclaimed emo albums of all time. (It’s also one of just four albums released to date by the band in its quarter-century of existence; though the band has reassembled for multiple arena and stadium tours in the past decade — and has sporadically teased a potential new LP — its most recent album to date remains 2010’s Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys .) Will it be enough to get the set to No. 1? That’s the big question for chartwatchers and MCR fans, as it would mark a first for both the album and the band. Though Black Parade would end up taking the New Jersey quartet to a new level of stardom (and spawned the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit “Welcome to the Black Parade”), it debuted and peaked at No. 2 upon its 2006 release, selling 240,000 first-week copies but still getting stuck behind the soundtrack album to the Miley Cyrus-led Hannah Montana (281,000 copies). Danger Days ended up underperforming as the set’s follow-up, only making No. 8 on the Billboard 200 — two spots below 2004’s No. 6-peaking breakthrough Thr