Dethklok – Debut At #21 On Billboard Charts
“Heavy metal juggernauts” DETHKLOK have exploded onto the music scene with the release of “The Dethalbum,” selling nearly 34,000 copies in its first week. The ferocious new record from the stars of the Adult Swim series Metalocalypse debuted at #21 on the Billboard Top 200 and dominated the Loud Rock Radio charts, hitting #6 on CMJ, #11 on FMQB, and #1 on Mediaguide Metal Specialty. This makes Metalocalypse: Dethklok’s “The Dethalbum” the highest charting “death metal” album ever. “The Dethalbum” was also streamed 45,000 times when it went live on AOL Music during the week of its release.
Metalocalypse creator Brendon Small had this to say about the initial success of DETHKLOK’s “The Dethalbum:” “It feels great to finally be recognized as the serious cartoon musician that I know that I am. I feel vindicated to have surpassed the sales of ‘Jem and the Holograms‘ and ‘The Archies.’ You have no idea how many cartoon groupies this will get me.”
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So awesome.
WOW!!!
That’s freakin great; probably would have debuted even higher had there been more copies available.
ICP sold more records when the tempest came out in march, so where’s the love for the wicked clowns?
The “wicked clowns” are not actually musical artists. Please don’t post ever again.
Also, ICP are real people (barely)
This band consists of cartoon characters.
ICP blow. Dethklok rules. I lost my virginity to Dethklok and ICP raped my mother.