Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Swedish heavy metal band Ghost dominates charts all around the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been four years since a hard rock band topped the Billboard 200 albums chart — and far longer since such a band did so ...

The success of Skeletá isn't just a product of a slow week, either. The record accumulated 86,000 "equivalent album units" — that's Billboard-ese for the combination of sales and streaming that goes ...

Rock music is dead, they said. At least, it is dead as a popular genre. To be fair, rock has fallen by the wayside from the cultural-zeitgeist perspective. Hair metal gave way to grunge back in the ...

July 24 (UPI) --Swedish rock band Ghost appeared on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon to play their song "Lachryma," from their recently-released album, Skeletá. The band, dressed in their iconic ...

When I learn a band’s origin story before hearing their music, I tend to typecast them. With the band Ghost described as a Swedish act that performs in heavy makeup and costuming with lyrics that ...

Ghost’s sound features good old-fashioned Scandinavian pop stamped with the textures of metal and ‘80s rock. At the LCA concert, material from the spring release “Skeleta,” the band’s sixth album and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PEORIA — Grammy-winning Swedish theatrical rock band Ghost announced the addition of 20 shows to its 2026 Skeletour World Tour, ...

Hard rock hasn't had an easy time on the charts in recent years: The last such act to top the albums chart was AC/DC, whose Power Up hit No. 1 for a single week in late 2020. But while Skeletá is ...