{"id":1972423,"date":"2025-08-21T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1972423"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:14:05","slug":"babymetals-new-album-moshes-into-top-10-of-u-s-billboard-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/babymetals-new-album-moshes-into-top-10-of-u-s-billboard-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Babymetal\u2019s new album moshes into top 10 of U.S. Billboard chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n    <!--googleon:index--><\/p>\n<p>Veteran <span>\u201c<\/span>metal kawaii<span>\u201d<\/span> unit Babymetal has thrashed\u00a0its way to a\u00a0historical high\u00a0on American music charts after the\u00a0group<span>\u2019<\/span>s\u00a0new\u00a0album <span>\u201c<\/span>Metal Forth<span>\u201d<\/span> reached ninth on the U.S. Billboard<span>\u2019<\/span>s overall list as of Aug. 23.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Billboard announced the rankings on its website on Aug. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group<span>\u2019<\/span>s record label, Universal Music Japan, said\u00a0this\u00a0is the first time an all-Japanese group has\u00a0broken\u00a0into the chart<span>\u2019<\/span>s top 10.\u00a0Su-Metal, Moametal and Momometal are the current members.<\/p>\n<p>Babymetal, which was formed in 2010, has since grown popular abroad. The idol-flavored dance choreography remains, but the group has long evolved from a cutesy gimmick into\u00a0one praised for its vocal power and mashing of different metal subgenres.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s previous best on the U.S. Billboard<span>\u2019<\/span>s overall album chart was 13th, achieved with its third album, \u201cMetal Galaxy,\u201d released in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetal Forth,\u201d\u00a0<span>which celebrates Babymetal\u2019s 15th anniversary,\u00a0<\/span>debuted on Aug. 8 and is the group<span>\u2019<\/span>s fourth album.<\/p>\n<p>Its 10 tracks include\u00a0\u201cRatatata,\u201d created in collaboration\u00a0with German band Electric Callboy, and \u201cMetali!!\u201d\u00a0featuring guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>    <!--googleoff:index-->\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\twindow.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n\t\tFB.init({\n\t\t\tappId : '137119773101625',\n\t\t\txfbml : true,\n\t\t\tversion : 'v7.0'\n\t\t});\n\t};\n\t(function(d, s, id){\n\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\tjs.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/ja_JP\/sdk.js\";\n\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.asahi.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran \u201cmetal kawaii\u201d unit Babymetal has thrashed\u00a0its way to a\u00a0historical high\u00a0on American music charts after the\u00a0group\u2019s\u00a0new\u00a0album \u201cMetal Forth\u201d reached ninth on the U.S. Billboard\u2019s overall list as of Aug. 23. U.S. Billboard announced the rankings on its website on Aug. 17.\u00a0 The group\u2019s record label, Universal Music Japan, said\u00a0this\u00a0is the first time an all-Japanese group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1972424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[351292,26630,351291,21738],"class_list":["post-1972423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-asahi-shimbun","tag-japan","tag-national-report","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Babymetals-new-album-moshes-into-top-10-of-US-Billboard.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}