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On March 9th, Judas Priest released their eighteenth studio album, Firepower.
Produced by Tom Allom and Andy Sneap , the album was very well received by fans, and the numbers confirm its popularity. Firepower was the band's best performance on the American music charts.
The band appeared in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200, showing that it was the fifth best-selling album in the country in the week of its release, surpassing the sales figures of Redeemer of Souls (2014), which reached number six at the time.
Selling 49,000 copies, Firepower also propelled its single "Lightning Strike" to number 21 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart. Check out Judas Priest's history on the Billboard 200 below:
Stained Class, No. 173, April 22, 1978
Hell Bent for Leather, No. 128, April 28, 1979
Unleashed in the East (Live in Japan), No. 70, Nov. 10, 1979
British Steel, No. 34, July 12, 1980
Point of Entry, No. 39, May 23, 1981
Screaming for Vengeance, No. 17, Oct. 30, 1982
Defenders of the Faith, No. 18, Feb. 25, 1984
Turbo, No. 17, April 26, 1986
Live, No. 38, July 11, 1987
Ram It Down, No. 31, June 18, 1988
Painkiller, No. 26, Nov. 3, 1990
Metal Works '73 – '93, No. 155, June 5, 1993
Jugulator, No. 82, Nov. 15, 1997
Demolition, No. 165, Aug. 18, 2001
Angel of Retribution, No. 13, March 19, 2005
Nostradamus, No. 11, July 5, 2008
A Touch of Evil: Live, No. 87, Aug. 1, 2009
Redeemer of Souls, No. 6, July 26, 2014
Firepower, No. 5, March 24, 2017
