Overview
- The self-titled set opens atop the Feb. 7 Billboard 200 with 73,000 equivalent units for the week ending Jan. 29, according to Luminate.
- Album sales account for 69,000 units with 4,000 from streaming; physical formats totaled 56,000, including 22,000 on vinyl, the band’s best modern vinyl week.
- Multiple vinyl variants, a Target-exclusive CD bonus track and a mid-week deluxe digital download helped drive first-week purchases.
- The No. 1 arrives nearly 39 years after Megadeth’s Billboard 200 debut, the longest wait for a first chart-topper by any act since 2016.
- The album also debuts at No. 1 in Australia and Austria, and the farewell tour begins Feb. 15 in Victoria, British Columbia.