Carnival of Soul

Since their debut in 1994, nearly every studio album of Korn’s charted in the top 10 of the Billboard Top 200, with the only exception being their first self-titled record debuting at No. 72. With 13 albums into their career, it’s quite the feat for any artists to consistently break the top 10, let alone a metal band. Their new record, The Nothing managed to land at No. 8 and sold 29,000 in pure album sales, and a total of 33,000 equivalent in album units its first week. While the album does celebrate another return to the Billboard Top 10, The Nothing is actually down 42% in sales compared to their 2016 Album’s first week sales, The Serenity of Suffering, at 57,000 equivalent in album units sold.

Seeing as Korn have 13 albums that have debuted in the top 10, Billboard reports they’re now tied with Van Halen for having the 5th most top 10 debuts in rock. Dave Mathews Band and Santana are slightly ahead with a total of 16 albums, but The Rolling Stones currently hold first place with 37 albums, and the Beatles in second with 32. Korn have also managed to snag the 3rd highest US charting Metal record of 2019, landing behind two No. 1 records; Slipknot’s We Are Not Your Kind (118,000 Units), and Tool’s long awaited epic, Fear Inoculum.

While Korn are quite a distance from Slipknot and Tool in sales, they’re the 3rd Metal band of 2019 to chart in the top 10 of the US Billboard Top 200. Then again Korn’s discography is nearly twice the size of Slipknot’s and Tool’s, of whom have no more than six studio albums each. Interestingly enough, all three acts are from the same era of metal (early to mid 90’s), yet Korn have an exceptionally larger music catalogue. Even so, Korn’s ‘more is more’ approach to record releases has ceased to leave themselves or their fans empty handed.