Your Favourite Toy turns into the primary Foo Fighters album to overlook the highest 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 30 years, because the band’s self-titled debut. INDIO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 19: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Musician Dave Grohl, founding member of Nirvana and The Foo Fighters, performs onstage as a particular visitor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic throughout weekend 2, day 2 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Pageant on April 19, 2025 in Indio, California. (Photograph by Scott Dudelson/Getty Photographs for Coachella)
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Nirvana formally cut up in 1994 following the suicide of frontman and lead singer Kurt Cobain. One of many grunge outfit’s members, Dave Grohl, didn’t waste a lot time earlier than he took on a brand new undertaking, forming Foo Fighters that very same yr. Later in 1994, Grohl would write and file the whole lot of the band’s self-titled debut, which was launched the next summer season.
Foo Fighters shortly grew to become a powerful vendor, not simply on rock rankings, however on the Billboard 200, the chart firm’s record of the most-consumed albums and EPs in the USA. Within the a long time since then, the band has solely turn into an increasing number of standard and the musicians have spent a very long time as vital darlings – however one thing appears to have modified.
Your Favourite Toy, the twelfth studio LP by Foo Fighters, debuts on a number of rankings this week in America, together with the Billboard 200. Sadly, whereas followers of the group are certainly thrilled to listen to new music from the Grohl-led troupe, Your Favourite Toy misses matching the previous a number of albums by the band. In reality, it stands out because the Grammy-winning troupe’s worst performer in a protracted, very long time.
Foo Fighters Miss the Prime 10 Totally
Your Favourite Toy opens on the Billboard 200 this week at No. 23. For a lot of rock bands – particularly in at this time’s music world, which is dominated by pop singers and hip-hop soloists and largely not teams – that will be a notable place to begin. However for Foo Fighters, it’s really disappointing.
Solely Foo Fighters’ Debut Album Additionally Stalled at No. 23
Trying solely on the 12 studio albums Foo Fighters have launched and positioned on the Billboard 200 since 1995, Your Favourite Toy ties because the act’s lowest-peaking set. Solely the group’s debut effort, Foo Fighters, which peaked at No. 23, managed the identical displaying. The band’s different 10 albums have all hung out throughout the high 10. Your Favourite Toy turns into the primary Foo Fighters launch to overlook that tier in simply over 30 years.
Biggest Hits And Pores and skin And Bones Carried out Higher
Solely a handful of tasks by Foo Fighters which have landed on the Billboard 200 have topped out in much less spectacular positions than the place Your Favourite Toy begins. The Important Foo Fighters peaked at No. 42, whereas the St. Cecilia EP solely ever lifted as excessive as No. 117. A number of different choices, just like the simply-titled Biggest Hits, in addition to a stay assortment referred to as Pores and skin And Bones, outpaced Your Favourite Toy, peaking at Nos. 11 and 21, respectively.
Your Favourite Toy Tops the Laborious Rock Albums Chart
In the meanwhile, Your Favourite Toy seems on seven Billboard charts, and it performs considerably higher on each one in all them when in comparison with its launch level on the Billboard 200. Your Favourite Toy is a high 10 success on half a dozen rankings, and it leads the Prime Laborious Rock Albums tally. Foo Fighters rating an eighth No. 1 on that rundown.
Listed here are the entire No. 1s Foo Fighters have accrued on the Prime Laborious Rock Albums chart.
- However Right here We Are
- Concrete and Gold
- Echoes, Silence, Persistence & Grace
- Biggest Hits
- Medication at Midnight
- Sonic Highways (Soundtrack)
- Losing Mild
- Your Favourite Toy
Your Favourite Toy Arrives Contained in the Prime 10 Elsewhere
Your Favourite Toy additionally opens inside the highest 10 on one other 5 Billboard rankings, and coincidentally, it begins in the identical place on each one in all them. The newest by Foo Fighters debuts at No. 3 on the Prime Album Gross sales, Vinyl Albums, Prime Rock and Various Albums, Prime Rock Albums, and Prime Various Albums charts concurrently. On each a kind of lists, Foo Fighters have claimed at the very least 10 high 10s – a milestone reached this body on each the Vinyl and Various rosters.
Foo Fighters’ The Color And The Form is Nonetheless Current
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 20: (L-R) Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffee, Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear and Taylor Hawkins pose onstage as The Foo Fighters reopen Madison Sq. Backyard on June 20, 2021 in New York Metropolis. The live performance, with all attendees vaccinated, is the primary in a New York area to be held at full-capacity since March 2020 when the pandemic result in the closure of stay efficiency venues. (Photograph by Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for FF)
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Foo Fighters fill two areas on simply a kind of seven charts the place Your Favourite Toy debuts this time round. On the Prime Laborious Rock Albums rating, The Color And The Form is regular at No. 24. Up to now, it has climbed as excessive as No. 16 within the 16 weeks it has spent someplace on the rating of the most-consumed laborious rock collections within the nation.
