Opeth – “Ghost Reveries” Press Release and Chart Numbers
Swedish Rock innovators OPETH have arrived on the world stage in a major way. Their new album, “Ghost Reveries”, sold 15,000 copies in it’s first week, tripling the band’s best-ever first week sales to date, and placing the record at #1 on the Billboard Current Hard Music Chart, #8 on the Top Hard Music Chart and #64 on the Top 200 Albums Chart for the week. The video for the first single from the album, “The Grand Conjuration,” can currently be seen on MTV2’s Headbangers Ball and on Fuse.
An album that Kerrang calls “baffling, utterly hypnotic and quite, quite brilliant” “Ghost Reveries” finds itself in strange company, sharing the chart with the likes of LIFEHOUSE, THE EAGELES and GUNS N’ ROSES. But as the sales of bands like THE MARS VOLTA, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE and others can attest, the audience for groundbreaking, interesting music grows over time so OPETH’s path is well laid out.
In support of the new album, the band is set to embark on the North American leg of the Ghost Reveries World Tour . The outing begins on October 9th in Phoenix, Arizona and will run through North America through mid-November 2005.
This week’s International chart debuts for “Ghost Reveries” were as follows:
Netherlands ‘Scherpe Rand van Platenland’ charts – #1
Swedish charts – #4.
Finnish charts – #11.
Norwegian charts – # 21
Australian charts – #35
Dutch charts – #38.
German charts – #39.
United Kingdom charts – #62.
French charts – #72.
Danish charts – # 84.
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