Prophets of Rage Score Top 5 Debut on Top Rock Albums Chart
Prophets of Rage are new to Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart, but their members certainly aren't.
Prophets of Rage are new to Billboard‘s Top Rock Albums chart, but their members certainly aren’t.
The six-member band features the guitarist (Tom Morello), bassist (Tim Commerford) and drummer (Brad Wilk) of Rage Against the Machine as well as Public Enemy‘s Chuck D and DJ Lord and Cypress Hill‘s B-Real.
The group’s debut EP, The Party’s Over, starts at No. 5 on the Sept. 17-dated chart with 7,000 sold, according to Nielsen Music, as well as No. 2 on Hard Rock Albums and No. 4 on Alternative Albums.
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Commerford and Wilk make their first appearances on Top Rock Albums as fully fledged band members since Audioslave topped the chart for a week in 2006 with Revelations; Wilk drummed on Black Sabbath‘s 2013 No. 1 album 13.
The group’s debut single, the aptly named “Prophets of Rage,” concurrently rises to 8-6 on the Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart and 42-40 on Hot Rock Songs.
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