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Twenty One Pilots’ ‘Breach’ Debuts at No. 1 With Year’s Biggest Rock Week

An aggressive physical-first rollout plus a tour kickoff concentrated demand into release week, yielding 169,000 sales out of 200,000 units.

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Overview

  • Luminate reports 200,000 equivalent album units for the week ending Sept. 18, including 169,000 in traditional sales and 31,000 SEA (40.68 million streams).
  • More than 15 vinyl variants sold a combined 72,000 copies, the duo’s best vinyl week and the top vinyl week for a rock album in the modern tracking era.
  • The chart-topping start marks the band’s second Billboard 200 leader and first since Blurryface in 2015.
  • The album’s release aligned with the Sept. 18 launch of The Clancy Tour: Breach 2025, with U.S. and Canada dates running through Oct. 26.
  • Elsewhere in the top 10, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack slipped to No. 2 with 112,000 units, while Ed Sheeran’s Play opened at No. 5 with 71,000.