It took 20 years, but My Chemical Romance have a No. 1 album. The Black Parade, jumps from No. 139 to the top of the Billboard 200 on the chart dated Nov. 7, powered by its 20th anniversary reissue.
The album earned 78,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 29, up 653%. Pure album sales made up 68,000 of that, including 42,000 vinyl copies, the band’s best vinyl week ever. Streaming added another 10,000 units, or about 10.14 million on-demand plays.
More than 20 physical versions of the reissue were pressed across vinyl, cassette and CD, some of them signed, and all of them counted toward the total. The set knocked Olivia Rodrigo to No. 2 with 64,000 units.
The milestone comes with a record attached. Billboard puts the gap between the band’s first chart appearance in June 2004 and this first No. 1 at 22 years and four months, and the climb is also described as the longest wait for any album to reach the summit. The previous mark belonged to Toby Keith‘s “35 Biggest Hits,” at 15 years and nine months.
The Black Parade, originally peaked at No. 2 in 2006 and has since gone four-times platinum in the U.S. The concept album, about a terminally ill character known as The Patient, has been on tour since July 2025, including five nights at the Hollywood Bowl in October. The run wraps Nov. 22 in Indonesia.
The album also became the band’s first No. 1 in Britain this week.
