Gorillaz reign on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart for the fourth time, topping the March 14-dated survey with The Mountain. It’s the animated band’s second No. 1 in a row, following the one-week rule of Cracker Island in 2023.
In the week ending March 5, The Mountain earned 53,000 equivalent album units in the United States, according to Luminate. That sum includes 38,000 album sales, of which 19,000 were via vinyl configurations.
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Gorillaz first led Top Rock & Alternative Albums, which began in 2006, with Plastic Beach in 2010, followed by Humanz in 2017. The band was even part of the chart’s inaugural edition; Demon Days, which was released in 2005, ranked at No. 7 on the initial Jan. 14, 2006, tally. Concurrently, The Mountain bows at No. 7 on the all-genre Billboard 200, Gorillaz’s seventh top 10, dating to Demon Days. The Damon Albarn-led band’s best remains the No. 2 peaks of Plastic Beach and Humanz.
Three songs from The Mountain appear on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, paced by “The Moon Cave,” which debuts at No. 24 as the week’s highest bow. The track, which features Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, David Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda and Black Thought, earned 2.4 million official U.S. streams.
The Mountain’s release was prefaced by lead single “The Happy Dictator,” featuring Sparks, which peaked at Nos. 21 and 28 on Adult Alternative Airplay and Alternative Airplay, respectively, last year. Another single, “Orange County,” is currently bubbling under Adult Alternative Airplay. The song features contributions from Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar.
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