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Motionless in White Dominate Hard Rock Charts as Decades Opens at No. 1

Kiran MachadoPublished 3d ago3 min readBased on 5 sources
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Motionless in White Dominate Hard Rock Charts as Decades Opens at No. 1

Motionless in White top both of Billboard's hard rock charts dated August 1, after their seventh studio album Decades arrived with 30,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. for the week ending July 23. The album, released July 17 through Roadrunner Records, debuts at No. 1 on Top Hard Rock Albums and No. 15 on the Billboard 200, the all-genre ranking of the week's most-consumed albums. (Billboard)

Equivalent album units are the measure that converts streams and track downloads into album sales for chart purposes. Of Decades' 30,000 units, 18,000 came from traditional album sales — including 8,000 vinyl copies. (Billboard)

This is the band's fourth No. 1 on Top Hard Rock Albums, following Reincarnate (2014), Graveyard Shift (2017) and Scoring the End of the World (2022). The band's highest Billboard 200 peak remains Reincarnate at No. 9. (Billboard)

On the song side, the track "Fight Like Hell" opens at No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs, carried largely by 1.8 million chart-eligible streams. Two versions of the song appear on Decades: one performed by the band alone, and one featuring OUTLIER. (Billboard)

The No. 1 is the band's fourth on Hot Hard Rock Songs — a chart Billboard launched in 2020 — and all four have been tied to Decades. "Afraid of the Dark" spent two weeks at the top in February, "Playing God" featuring Corey Taylor hit No. 1 for a week in May, and "R.I.P." featuring Skylar Grey held the spot for three weeks beginning in July. All four rank in the chart's top five for the August 1 survey. (Billboard)

Decades places 12 songs on the 25-position Hot Hard Rock Songs chart for the same week, tied for the second-most simultaneous entries by any act. The tally matches Metallica's 12 from April 29, 2023. HARDY holds the outright record with 13 entries on the July 27, 2024 chart. (Billboard)

A cover of Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night" enters Hot Hard Rock Songs at No. 9, powered by 989,000 streams and 1,000 downloads. Hart's original peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. Billboard reports that this is the first time a cover version of "Sunglasses at Night" has reached a U.S.-based Billboard ranking. (Billboard)

For fans of the band, the chart sweep confirms that Decades has landed with both the streaming audience and the physical-format faithful — 8,000 vinyl copies is a real number for a hard rock act in 2026, not a token figure. The four-song grip on Hot Hard Rock Songs, across a single album cycle, is a measure of how consistently the record has connected since the first single arrived earlier this year.