Grateful Dead meets Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra within the Billboard file books, because the band ties the latter two legends for probably the most profession prime 40-charting albums on the Billboard 200 within the 67-year historical past of the survey.
The band achieves its 58th prime 40 album with its newest dwell archival launch, Dave’s Picks, Quantity 48: Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 11/20/71, because the set debuts at No. 33 on the Billboard 200 dated Nov. 11. The three-CD album captures a beforehand unreleased present recorded on the college’s Pauley Pavilion on Nov. 20, 1971. The gathering additionally consists of bonus dwell materials recorded at an Oct. 24, 1970, live performance on the Kiel Opera Home in St. Louis.
Dave’s Picks is Grateful Useless’s persevering with dwell archival launch sequence, named for the group’s archivist, David Lemieux, that has been going sturdy since its first launch in 2012. Releases within the sequence are issued solely on CD and in restricted portions. Notably, 40 of Grateful Useless’s 58 prime 40-charting albums are from the Dave’s Picks sequence.
Right here’s a recap of the acts with probably the most prime 40-charting albums on the Billboard 200 because the record started publishing on a daily, weekly foundation in March of 1956:
58, Grateful Useless
58, Elvis Presley
58, Frank Sinatra
54, Barbra Streisand
51, Bob Dylan
48, The Rolling Stones
Dave’s Picks, Quantity 48 debuts on the Billboard 200 with 19,000 equal album models earned within the U.S. within the week ending Nov. 2, based on information monitoring agency Luminate. All of that sum was pushed by conventional album gross sales.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album models, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously generally known as Twitter, and Instagram.
