How Big a Deal Is My Chemical Romance Scoring Its First No. 1 Album With a 20-Year-Old LP?
Categoria: Musica
This week's Five Burning Questions looks at MCR's beloved 'The Black Parade' belatedly ascending to the Billboard 200's top spot, thanks to an anniversary reissue.
Por Billboard | 04/11/2026
It took 25 years after their forming, 20 years after their biggest album’s release, and about 15 years after they went on hiatus for the first time, but emo paragons My Chemical Romance have finally scored a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. MCR’s 2006 masterwork The Black Parade tops the albums chart this week, shooting 139-1 on the listing, thanks largely to a new deluxe anniversary reissue that activated the (somehow still-growing) fanbase in a major way. It marks the set’s first visit to No. 1, after it was held at No. 2 during its initial release by the blockbuster Hannah Montana soundtrack. How huge a deal is it to the band? And what could be the next classic album to be propelled to No. 1 by a 20-year anniversary reissue? Billboard discusses these questions and more below. 1. MCR scores the first No. 1 album in the band’s history with its 20-year-old Black Parade album. On a scale of 1-10, how big a deal is this for the band? Eric Renner Brown : 6. My Chemical Romance has had — and continues to have — a huge career without having ever notched a No. 1 album. But it’s still a cool thing for a veteran artist to have on its resume, and further burnishes the band’s bona fides. Kyle Denis : 10. A No. 1 album is always something worth celebrating, but finally securing that achievement during the 20th anniversary of your most beloved album (that never went No. 1 during its initial run) is far more impressive. Josh Glicksman : Has to be at least a 7, right? My Chemical Romance doesn’t strike me as the type of band that’s hinging its success solely on chart performance, but a No. 1 album — particularly for the group’s seminal project — is quite the feather in its marching-band hat. It’s the type of achievement that helps grow their following among a new generation of listeners and makes the last handful of dates on the Long Live The Black Parade Tour that much more of a hot-ticket item. Lyndsey Havens : 10. It’s totally awesome to see and a big deal for a deserving band. This album has become a seminal work in music history and culture, and it’s nice to see that being celebrated 20 years later — to me, it actually feels more on time than if the album had debuted at No. 1 when it first arrived. But they may not agree there. Andrew Unterberger: A 9, at least. This is pretty unprecedented, for an album to be so beloved that a new reissue — which has some cool new-ish bonus stuff, but certainly not an entire treasure trove’s worth — not only sends it back up the charts, but all the way to No. 1? From a band who hasn’t released an album since Obama’s first term? That really just confirms that the bond that MCR has with its fans and rock audiences in general is a generational one. 2. Plenty of other classic albums have received deluxe anniversary reissues in recent years — why do you think this one is the first to boost the album to No. 1 on the Billboard 200? Eric Renner Brown : It’s