Radiohead’s ‘Hail to the Thief’ Live Album Makes Top 10 Debut on 4 Charts

Radiohead’s second live album, Hail to the Thief: Live Recordings 2003-2009, makes a top 10 debut across four Billboard album charts (dated Nov. 15), including a No. 8 bow on Top Album Sales, marking the band’s ninth top 10. The set also enters the top 10 on Indie Store Album Sales (No. 4), Vinyl Albums (No. 5) and Top Current Album Sales (No. 8).

On the overall Billboard 200 chart, the set squeaks in at No. 200, landing the group its 17th chart entry. The set also bows at No. 30 on Independent Albums and at No. 48 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums.

In the tracking week ending Nov. 6 in the United States, the album earned a little over 8,000 equivalent album units, of which essentially all were in traditional album sales (purchases of digital and physical copies of the album).

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.

Radiohead’s new live album is one of six debuts or re-entries among the top 10 on the latest Top Album Sales chart, where Florence + the Machine’s Everybody Scream debuts atop the list. Tyler, The Creator’s chart-topping CHROMAKOPIA reenters at No. 2 after its one-year anniversary reissue on CD, vinyl and in two deluxe boxed sets (each containing branded merch and a copy of the CD). Grateful Dead’s latest archival live set Dave’s Picks, Vol. 56: Rainbow Theatre, London, England, 3/20/81 & 3/21/81 enters at No. 3, while Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 The Life of a Showgirl slips 3-4. The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack rises a spot to No. 5, while Hamilton: 10 Shots (Highlights From the Original Broadway Cast Recording) bows at No. 6. Stray Kids’ chart-topping KARMA climbs 9-7, Bob Dylan’s from-the-vaults compilation Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 18, 1956-1963 debuts at No. 9 and Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack returns to the top 10, rising 14-10.