Ghost's 'Rite Here Rite Now' Soundtrack Hits Billboard Album Chart

Ghost's soundtrack to his movie Rite Here Rite Now takes a dip in many Advertising sign album chart (dated Aug. 10), as the live set falls on Top 10 album Sales (No. 2), Top Hard Rock Albums (No. 1), Vinyl Albums (No. 1), Indie Store album Sales ( No. 1), Soundtracks (No. 2), Independent Albums (No. 3), Top Rock Albums (No. 5) and Top Rock & Alternative Albums (No. 6). It also reaches No. 21 on the overall Billboard 200 – the band's sixth top 40 chart total on the chart.

The live set, recorded over two nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, in 2023, includes a studio-recorded track: “The Future Is a Foreign Land.”

Rite Here Rite Now arrives with 27,000 equivalent album units earned in the US in the week ending August 1, according to Luminate, with 26,000 of that amount in traditional album sales – supported by its availability on 10 vinyl variants (whose combined sales amounted to just over 16,000). It is the sixth set of top 10s for the rock band on the Top Selling Albums chart.

Advertising signThe Top Albums Sales chart ranks the best-selling albums of the week based on traditional album sales only. The history of the chart dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Advertising sign began charting electronically tracked track count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Net album sales was the sole metric used by the Billboard 200 album chart through the list dated December 6, 2014, after which that chart changed to a methodology that combines album sales with track-equivalent album units and album-equivalent units flow. For all the new charts, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Hard Rock Albums and Soundtracks respectively rank the most popular rock and alternative, rock, hard rock and soundtrack albums of the week by respective album units. Vinyl album charts the week's top selling vinyl releases. Indie Store album Sales measures the best-selling titles at independent and small record store chains. Independent Albums ranks the most popular independent albums of the week, by units.

As for the rest of the top 10 on the top album sales chart… Stray Kids' ATE holds at No. 1 for second week (48,000 sales, down 79%), Grateful Dead's last live archive set Dave's Picks, Volume 51: Scranton Catholic Youth Center, Scranton PA (4/13/71) debuts at No. 3 (21,000), ENHYPEN's Romance: Unspeakable drops 3-4 (15,000, down 42%), Ice Spice's debut set Y2K! enters at No. 5 (12,000), by Taylor Swift Department of Tormented Poets rises 12-6 (nearly 12,000, up 34%), The Red Clay Strays' Made of These Moments debut at No. 7 (11,000), Forrest Frank's debut album Child of God enters No. 8 (10,000), h Deadpool & Wolverine The soundtrack starts at No. 9 (almost 10,000) and Jimin's MUSE falls 2-10 in its second week (nearly 10,000, down 87%).