My Chemical Romance Reach No. 1 in the UK With The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance have scored their first UK chart-topper, The Black Parade, a record first released in 2006. The album sits at No. 1 on the UK Official Albums Chart, the country's official weekly ranking of album sales. The band had already reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart with a single in 2006.
The album first came out in 2006 and peaked at No. 2 at the time. This week it has climbed to the top, nearly twenty years later. Its return to the charts comes with a 20th anniversary edition that adds unreleased tracks and new live recordings.
The Official Charts reported in September that the anniversary edition opens with "The End." and follows it with "Dead!" as track 2. The band's website lists a 180-gram double vinyl version, called the One Step Audiophile Edition. Heavier vinyl is pressed for better sound, and a double album comes on two discs. The Black Parade is the band's third album, following Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.
The top of the chart was busy. Fontaines D.C.'s Dopamine Chamber dropped to No. 2 after its debut, which Billboard reported as the third-biggest debut of 2026 in the UK, behind Harry Styles and Olivia Rodrigo. In the US, the album reached No. 14 on the Billboard 200, the main American album ranking, the band's highest placing there.
Amy Winehouse's Back to Black rose 112 places to No. 4. Olivia Rodrigo's you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love finished at No. 3, and Michael Jackson's The Essential came in at No. 5. Manic Street Preachers landed The Holy Bible Live at No. 10. It is their 16th top 10 album, and it includes a performance at London's Roundhouse recorded in 2014.
Michael Kiwanuka's fifth album, Fudge, debuted at No. 13. Kiwanuka wrote and recorded the album before he suffered a stroke in 2025.
My Chemical Romance are also on the road. Their The Black Parade 2026 Tour includes a show at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California, on 30 October 2026.
Chart positions are counted from sales and streams, and each one stands for real work. Pressing plants, shops, tour crews and staff at the labels all help get a record to the people who buy it. A chart-topping album, twenty years after its first release, is a reminder that a record can find a new audience long after it came out.
