{"id":79612,"date":"2025-08-18T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79612\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:16:07","slug":"babymetal-become-first-all-japanese-group-to-land-in-top-10-of-billboard-200-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79612\/","title":{"rendered":"BABYMETAL Become First All-Japanese Group to Land in Top 10 of Billboard 200 Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/babymetal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BABYMETAL<\/a> have made history with their new album, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/03\/babymetal-new-album-metal-forth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">METAL FORTH<\/a>. The LP debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, making the band the first all-Japanese group to land in the Top 10 of the overall US album chart.<\/p>\n<p>The pop-metal sensations\u2019 fifth studio LP sold 36,000 equivalent album units in the US during its first week of release, of which 33,500 were pure album sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:babymetal*billboard-chart-button\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fbabymetal-tickets%2Fperformer%2F1494489\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get BABYMETAL Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While many musicians contributed to the LP, BABYMETAL\u2019s official members are Su-metal, Moametal, and Momometal. Among the guests on the album are Spiritbox, Poppy, Slaughter to Prevail, Bloodywood, Tom Morello, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Top 10 position on the Billboard 200, METAL FORTH\u00a0debuted at No. 1 on Japan\u2019s Oricon Rock Chart and No. 2 on the US iTunes Download Album Chart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you so much for your support on our new album METAL FORTH around the world,\u2019 the band stated in a press release. \u201cWe hope you enjoy it! Our music &amp; career are evolving globally, and we are moving forward with \u2018Beyond HEAVY METAL.\u2019 Our journey continues, and we can\u2019t wait to see you at BABYMETAL shows in your city and your country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BABYMETAL recently <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/03\/babymetal-2025-north-american-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">completed a North American tour<\/a>, and are currently playing concerts in Asia. They\u2019ll return to the States for a special one-off arena show at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles on November 1st (<a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:babymetal*metal-forth-chart\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fbabymetal-tickets%2Fperformer%2F1494489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pick up tickets here<\/a>).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BABYMETAL have made history with their new album, METAL FORTH. The LP debuted at No. 9 on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-79612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}