{"id":5832,"date":"2016-02-05T10:06:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/02\/05\/megadeth-enters-the-billboard-charts-with-dystopia\/"},"modified":"2016-02-05T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:06:14","slug":"megadeth-enters-the-billboard-charts-with-dystopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/02\/05\/megadeth-enters-the-billboard-charts-with-dystopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Megadeth enters the Billboard charts with &#8216;Dystopia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/65\/Megadeth2010.jpg\/250px-Megadeth2010.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"163\" \/><br \/>Heavy metal cornerstone Megadeth scores its first No. 1 on Billboard&#8217;s Top Rock Albums chart (dated Feb. 13) with Dystopia, its 15th studio album. The set arrives with 48,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen Music, the band&#8217;s best sales start in nearly a decade; 2007&#8217;s United Abominations launched with 54,000.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/93\/MegadethDystopia.png\/220px-MegadethDystopia.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"158\" height=\"158\" \/><br \/>Dystopia is also Megadeth&#8217;s third No. 1 on Hard Rock Albums, following\u00a0 2009&#8217;s Endgame and 2011&#8217;s Th1rt3en. The new album begins at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, marking the Dave Mustaine-led outfit&#8217;s top peak since Countdown to Extinction reached No. 2 in 1992. (The rock-specific album charts originated in 2006.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dystopia&#8217;s eponymous lead single debuts on Mainstream Rock Songs at No. 37, becoming the band&#8217;s 21st hit on the airplay ranking and first in four years, since &#8220;Public Enemy No. 1,&#8221; which peaked at No. 28 in January 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy metal cornerstone Megadeth scores its first No. 1 on Billboard&#8217;s Top Rock Albums chart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}