Slipknot Earns Third Number One Record for “We Are Not Your Kind”


Released on August 9th, 2019, Slipknot’s new album We Are Not Your Kind (Roadrunner) sold the equivalent of 118,000 album units in the U.S. in its first of release to land at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart. Of that sum, 102,000 were in album sales and the rest from digital plays. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The album is the bands’ fifth top 10 effort on the Billboard 200. The Iowa-bases masked metallers previously landed in the top 10 with 2014’s .5: The Gray Chapter (No. 1), 2008’s All Hope Is Gone (No. 1), 2004’s Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) (No. 2) and 2001’s Iowa (No. 3).