Twenty One Pilots’ ‘Breach’ Bows Atop Billboard 200 With Biggest Week for a Rock Album in Six Years

Twenty One Pilots onshore the year’s biggest week for immoderate stone medium — and the largest successful six years — arsenic the duo’s caller workplace effort, Breach, bows astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 dated Sept. 27.

The acceptable is the act’s 2nd person and launches with 200,000 equivalent medium units earned successful the United States successful the week ending Sept. 18, according to Luminate. That marks Twenty One Pilots’ champion week ever and the biggest week for a stone medium since Tool’s Fear Inoculum launched astatine No. 1 with 270,000 connected the Sept. 14, 2019-dated chart. (Rock albums are defined arsenic those that are eligible for, oregon person charted on, Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart.)

The bulk of Breach’s opening week was powered by accepted medium sales, numbering 169,000 sold, which lands Twenty One Pilots its biggest income week ever, and the biggest for immoderate stone medium successful six years. The past stone acceptable to merchantability much copies successful a azygous week was Fear Inoculum, which sold 248,000 successful its opening stanza.

Breach is Twenty One Pilots’ archetypal No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 successful a small much than a decade, since Blurryface bowed astatine No. 1 connected the June 6, 2015 chart. All told, Breach is the band’s 5th apical 10, pursuing Clancy (No. 3 successful 2024), Scaled and Icy (No. 3, 2021), Trench (No. 2, 2018) and Blurryface.

Also successful the apical 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Ed Sheeran scores his eighth apical 10 medium arsenic Play premieres astatine No. 5.

The Billboard 200 illustration ranks the astir fashionable albums of the week successful the U.S. based connected multi-metric depletion arsenic measured successful equivalent medium units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise medium sales, way equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each portion equals 1 medium sale, oregon 10 idiosyncratic tracks sold from an album, oregon 3,750 ad-supported oregon 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand authoritative audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The caller Sept. 27, 2025-dated illustration volition beryllium posted successful afloat on Billboard‘s website connected Sept. 23. For each illustration news, travel @billboard and @billboardcharts connected some X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, and Instagram.

Of Breach’s 200,000 first-week equivalent medium units, medium income comprise 169,000 (it debuts astatine No. 1 connected the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 31,000 (equaling 40.68 cardinal on-demand authoritative streams of the set’s songs — the act’s champion streaming week yet; it besides debuts astatine No. 8 connected Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Breach’s opening-week income were bolstered by its availability crossed much than 15 vinyl variants, which sold a combined 72,000. That marks Twenty One Pilots’ champion week ever connected vinyl and the largest vinyl income week for a stone medium successful the modern epoch (since Luminate began electronically tracking income successful 1991).

Breach was besides issued connected 3 deluxe CD editions successful lavish packaging containing collectible ephemera, a modular wide disposable CD and integer download, on with a wide disposable deluxe integer download variation with the bonus way “Drag Path,” alternate screen creation and a PDF book...