My Chemical Romance has earned its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as The Black Parade returns to the top of the chart nearly 20 years after its original release. The band’s 20th-anniversary edition jumps from No. 139 to No. 1 on the chart dated November 7, following the release of an expanded version of the 2006 album.

According to Billboard, The Black Parade (20th Anniversary) earned 78,000 equivalent album units in the United States during the tracking week ending October 29, marking a 653% increase from the previous week. The album’s return to the summit gives My Chemical Romance its first-ever Billboard 200 chart-topper and establishes a new record for the longest wait between an album’s original chart debut and its first appearance at No. 1.

The album originally debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in November 2006, when it was kept from the top spot by Robbie Williams’ Rudebox. The anniversary edition’s rise to No. 1 comes two decades after the band released the project, which became one of the defining rock albums of the 2000s.

The expanded edition was released on October 23 through Reprise Records. It includes the original 13-track album alongside six bonus tracks, bringing together previously scattered B-sides and live recordings from the band’s 2007 performance at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey. The collection also includes the previously unreleased live recording “Someone Out There Loves You.”

The reissue was made available in more than 20 physical configurations, including vinyl, CD and cassette editions. According to Luminate data reported by Billboard, pure album sales accounted for 68,000 of the project’s 78,000 equivalent album units, with vinyl purchases contributing 42,000 sales. Streaming activity generated another 10,000 equivalent album units, while track-equivalent album units contributed a negligible amount.

The chart milestone also marks the first time an anniversary edition of an album has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. My Chemical Romance’s 139-to-1 jump is the largest climb to the summit since Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) returned to No. 1 in October 2021 following the release of signed CD and vinyl editions.

The achievement follows the band’s extensive The Black Parade 2026 tour, which began in 2025 and has featured a theatrical production built around the album’s fictional world. My Chemical Romance recently completed a five-night residency at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, with the final show taking place on Halloween, October 31.

During the Hollywood Bowl concert on October 30, frontman Gerard Way also revealed that the band plans to work on a new album in 2027. The announcement marked the first public indication of a new full-length project since Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, released in 2010.

The Billboard 200’s November 7 chart also features Olivia Rodrigo’s You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love at No. 2, Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem at No. 3 and Ella Langley’s Dandelion at No. 4. My Chemical Romance’s chart victory places the band among the leading acts of the week while bringing renewed attention to The Black Parade and its anniversary release.

The album’s return to No. 1 comes after years of continued popularity, with songs including “Welcome to the Black Parade,” “Famous Last Words,” “Teenagers” and “I Don’t Love You” remaining central to the band’s catalogue. The reissue has now given the group its first Billboard 200 chart-topper and its first No. 1 album in the United States.