Who would have imagined? His last record debuted at #13 (it’s a pretty good album, honestly) so I thought this new record of his was gonna tank. I was wrong:
Marilyn Manson’s “The Golden Age of Grotesque” gives the theatrical rocker the second No. 1 album of his career. One of four albums to debut inside the top-20, the Interscope release sold 118,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, to debut on top of The Billboard 200. Manson last reached the top of the chart with 1998’s “Mechanical Animals,” which moved 223,000 copies in its first week. (full story)