More than two decades after they formed, British prog-rockers Muse have finally scored their first Number One album on the U.S. charts as their new LP Drones debuted atop the Billboard 200. Muse’s seventh studio album moved 84,000 total albums in its first week of release, a drop from the 101,000 copies the band’s The 2nd Law sold in its first week in 2012 on its way to Number Two, Billboard reports.
Muse’s Number One landing comes a week after fellow Brits Florence and the Machine occupied the top spot. As Billboard notes, this is the first time in 30 years that two different British rock bands finished at Number One in consecutive weeks. The last time this happened: 1985, when Tears for Fears’ Songs From the Big Chair was unseated from atop the album charts by Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms.
