Photo: Morgane Dambacher / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) — My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey Way at the band’s Detroit show, Aug. 21, 2026.

Twenty years. That’s how long it took My Chemical Romance to land their first No. 1 album — and when it finally happened, it happened in style. The 20th-anniversary deluxe reissue of The Black Parade vaulted from No. 139 to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (Nov. 7-dated chart), two decades after the original stalled at No. 2.

The numbers are massive: 78,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week ending Oct. 29 (+653%, per Luminate), with 68,000 pure sales (+2,082%) doing the heavy lifting. Vinyl alone moved 42,000 copies — the best vinyl week of the band’s career — driven by 20+ physical variants (vinyl, CD, cassette, signed editions, all combined for charting). Streaming equivalents added 10,000 units (10.14 million on-demand streams).

Two chart records rewritten: (1) the longest wait ever for a No. 1 album — 20 years, topping Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits (15 years, 9 months, posthumous 2024); (2) the biggest jump to No. 1 since Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) leapt 157-1 in October 2021. It’s also the band’s first No. 1 on Top Album Sales (29-1).

Billboard made it official on Instagram.

Elsewhere in this week’s top 10: Olivia Rodrigo (No. 2, 64k), Morgan Wallen, Ella Langley, Noah Kahan, Taylor Swift, Zach Bryan, and Olivia Dean.

And the parade isn’t stopping: the band just confirmed a new album — their first in 16 years, complete with the Prelude to the End animated short and Olivia Rodrigo spotted at the anniversary show. Read our Oct. 31 coverage for all of it.

Vinyl isn’t dead: 42,000 physical copies moved in a single week. G-note, indeed.

Hypebeast (Nov 2) has the full chart breakdown.