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twenty one pilots’ Breach is the best-selling rock album in the U.S. since Tool’s Fear Inoculum

Breach hits Number One in America, as twenty one pilots frontman Tyler Joseph reflects, “This is the most proud I’ve ever been to be a part of this band…”

twenty one pilots’ Breach is the best-selling rock album in the U.S. since Tool’s Fear Inoculum
Words:
Emily Garner
Photo:
Fabien Kruszelnicki

As well as landing in the Top 10 of the UK charts, twenty one pilots are celebrating a huge Number One album with Breach on the Billboard 200.

The duo – Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun – have gone straight in at the top for the first time since the colossal success of Blurryface in 2015, with following albums Trench hitting #2, and Scaled And Icy and Clancy both going in at #3. In its first week Breach sold 200,000 equivalent album units, with 169,000 of those being ‘traditional’ album sales.

What’s more, it’s the biggest week for a rock album in the U.S. in six years – the last record to have this kind of Billboard chart success was Tool’s Fear Inoculum.

Taking to X to share his excitement about this latest milestone, Tyler says, “welp. Breach went #1. Why did this make me so happy I teared up a little? NOT A LOT. a little. 10 years ago I didn’t even really understand what a #1 album meant, but then ever since Blurryface I kind of really wanted it again, but never got it.

“Then I stopped wanting it and just wrote an album for you. for us. and that’s when you guys showed up bigger than ever. you did this. buying vinyl, or a box set, or going to listening events, or streaming and telling other people. thank you so much.

“This is the most proud I’ve ever been to be a part of this band. if you only knew how many industry people are confused right now. wait, what? yeah. we did.”

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