SLIPKNOT: We Are Not Your Kind Is The #1 Album & Now Streaming

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Aug 24, 2019

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Slipknot officially releases We Are Not Your Kind, their sixth studio album. The hype has been huge but will the band live up to expectations?

Well, it looks like the hype was understated because Billboard just ranked the album number one on the US charts. Nielsen Music reports the album sold a total of 118,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 15. An impressive 102,000 were in album sales.

Slipknot Historically Always Done Well, We Are Not Your Kind Exceeds Expectations

It’s very striking how much pure sales the band did, considering how big streaming is. It proves that streaming has not transferred over as much to metal. Slipknot’s last album, .5: The Gray Chapter sold 132,000 copies in 2014, for comparison.

It’s the first hard rock or heavy metal album to top the charts since 2017 when Foo Fighters released Concrete and Gold which moved 127,000 units in 2017.

We Are Not Your Kind is the band’s first number one album since 2014’s .5: The Gray Chapter. Before that 2008’s All Hope Is Gone also hit number 1. Overall, it’s the band’s fifth top 10 debut. Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) debuted at number two in 2004 and Iowa at number three in 2001.

Rappers Rick Ross and Trippie Redd filled out the top three.

This reflects the news that the album is #1 in the UK as well.

Congrats to Slipknot. You can see them on the road right now with Volbeat, Gojira, and Behemoth. We’re looking forward to the Austin 360 Amphitheater stop in Austin, Tx!