The routing also includes festival performances at Louder Than Life on September 23 in Louisville, Kentucky and Aftershock on October 9 in Sacramento, California. 1 hits, fan favorites and biggest stage show yet to cities from coast to coast. run of fall shows that will see the record-breaking, chart-topping band bring their new music, No. Gone are most of the pop electronics and melodies from the previous records, and marks a return to the much awaited raw and anthemic sound that had made. Instrumentation-wise however, Planet Zero is arguably Shinedown’s heaviest album since The Sound of Madness. The ‘Planet Zero’ world tour (produced by Live Nation) begins in Bonner Springs, Kansas on September 3 with special guests Jelly Roll and John Harvie, kicking off a U.S. The ballads at the very least, break up the lyrical monotony as well as musically. The high-concept, viscerally charged album, produced by Shinedown’s Eric Bass, takes a hard look at the divisiveness among those of differing ideologies, cancel culture ran rampant, the toxicity of social media, the need for honesty in our public discourse, and the corrosive effects of these things on mental health and humanity. The LP is an incisive yet optimistic look at the fractures and frays of a society that has undergone many challenges in the last few years, seeing Shinedown take on the forces that are keeping us divided at a time when we need to be coming together. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated December 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. 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. 1 on the all-genre Top Album Sales chart.īillboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. 5, marking Shinedown’s fifth top five title. On the all-genre Billboard 200, Planet Zero came in at No. The set sold 50,000 equivalent album units, according to Luminate. Shinedown’s new record Planet Zero has topped all four Billboard rock album charts in its first week of release: Top Hard Rock Albums, Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums.