Nine Inch Nails’ ‘TRON: Ares’ Soundtrack Tops 4 Billboard Charts

Nine Inch Nails’ soundtrack to TRON: Ares debuts atop 4 Billboard medium charts (dated Oct. 4), and logs the set its archetypal apical 10 connected the wide Billboard 200 successful much than a decade. The acceptable launches astatine No. 1 connected Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Alternative Albums, Top Dance Albums and Vinyl Albums, portion besides bowing astatine No. 5 connected the Billboard 200. On the second list, the task marks Nine Inch Nails’ seventh apical 10, and archetypal apical 10 since 2013’s Hesitation Marks debuted and peaked astatine No. 3.

TRON: Ares is the companion medium to the movie of the aforesaid name, which is owed successful theaters connected Oct. 10. It’s the 3rd successful the Tron movie series, pursuing Tron: Legacy (2010) and Tron (1982). TRON: Ares is the 2nd Tron soundtrack to scope the apical 10 connected the Billboard 200, aft Daft Punk’s TRON: Legacy peaked astatine No. 4 successful January 2011.

In the tracking week ending Sept. 25 (as reflected connected the Oct. 4-dated charts), TRON: Ares earned 45,000 equivalent medium units earned successful the United States, according to Luminate. Of that sum, accepted medium income comprised 39,000, marking Nine Inch Nails’ biggest income week since 2013. Of the second sum, vinyl income represented 23,000, logging the enactment its champion week ever connected vinyl.

The TRON: Ares medium was preceded by the azygous “As Alive arsenic You Need Me to Be,” which has reached the apical 10 connected some the Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay charts. On the erstwhile chart, the way is the band’s highest charting opus since “Survivalism” deed No. 1 successful April 2007.