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Twenty One Pilots Scale to No. 1 on Top Rock Albums Chart With ‘Scaled and Icy’

twenty one pilots notch their third No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts, as Scaled and Icy starts atop both lists dated June 5.

Scaled and Icy arrives with 75,000 equivalent album units earned in the May 21-27 tracking week, according to MRC Data. Of that sum, album sales comprise 51,000, while 24,000 are via streaming-equivalent albums (SEA), with a nominal amount from track-equivalent albums (TEA).

The streaming count grants Scaled and Icy the second-biggest-streaming week for a rock album on a chart dated in 2021, following Elvis Presley‘s The Classic Christmas Album (26,000 TEA, Jan. 2). It’s the best week for a rock album in its debut frame since Miley CyrusPlastic Hearts (39,000, Dec. 12).