Red, West Notch No. 1s
Nashville-based Christian rock band Red (above) notches its fifth Top Christian Albums leader as its sixth studio full-length, Gone, bounds in with 14,000 equivalent album units in its first week (ending Nov. 2), according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 13,000 were via traditional album sales. The set is Red’s first new LP since Of Beauty and Rage, which debuted atop the March 14, 2015-dated chart with 35,000 copies sold. The group’s prior three No. 1s are 2013’s Release the Panic, 2011’s Until We Have Faces (43,000 sold, the band’s strongest sales week to date) and 2009’s Innocence & Instinct. The group first appeared on Top Christian Albums with its 2007 No. 7-peaking freshman set, End of Silence
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