New releases from Dave Matthews Band and Ghost top Billboard’s rock album charts dated June 3.
Walk Around the Moon, Dave Matthews Band’s 10th studio set, bows at No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums tallies with 44,000 equivalent album units earned May 19-25, according to Luminate. Of that sum, 40,000 are via album sales.
The set is frontman Matthews’ seventh No. 1 on both surveys, which began in 2006. (Five leaders are billed as by Dave Matthews Band; two are credited to Matthews and DMB guitarist Tim Reynolds.) He boasts the third-most rulers in the history of both charts, behind only John Mayer and Bruce Springsteen (solo and with the E Street Band), each with eight.
Most No. 1s, Top Rock & Alternative Albums:
- 8, John Mayer
- 8, Bruce Springsteen (solo and with the E Street Band)
- 7, Dave Matthews (solo and with Dave Matthews Band)
- 6, The Beatles
- 6, Coldplay
- 6, Grateful Dead
- 6, Tom Petty (solo and with the Heartbreakers)
Dave Matthews Band first commanded Top Rock & Alternative Albums in 2006 with The Best of What’s Around, Vol. 01. Until its latest No. 1, the group had last led with 2018’s Come Tomorrow.
Walk Around the Moon’s 40,000-unit sales mark also slots the set at No. 1 on the all-genre Top Album Sales chart, where it’s the band’s eighth leader. On the Billboard 200, it begins at No. 5, marking Matthews’ 13th top five entry, a run that began with Dave Matthews Band’s Crash in May 1996.
Concurrently, “Monsters,” the second radio single from Walk Around the Moon, lifts 12-11 on Adult Alternative Airplay. “Madman’s Eyes” reached No. 4 in March.
Meanwhile, Phantomime, Ghost’s new all-covers EP, starts at No. 1 on Top Hard Rock Albums with 36,000 units, with 34,000 from album sales.
The five-song set features the rockers’ renditions of music from Genesis, Iron Maiden, The Stranglers, Television and Tina Turner.
It’s Ghost’s fifth Top Hard Rock Albums ruler. The band first led with Infestissumam in May 2013 and had most recently reigned with Impera in March 2022.
Phantomime also begins at No. 2 on both Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums. On the Billboard 200, it arrives as the Tobias Forge-led outfit’s fourth top 10, at No. 7.
The EP’s lead single, Ghost’s cover of Genesis’ “Jesus He Knows Me,” rises 18-16 on Mainstream Rock Airplay. It has outperformed the Phil Collins-sung original, which hit No. 24 in 1992.
