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Direct From Hollywood With Ryan Seacrest: A Very Unlikely Artist Just Claimed #1 Album · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't that long ago when rock bands regularly dominated
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Speaker 2: the chart, but in recent years, POPPYDM and hip hop
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Speaker 2: have had an exclusive hold on number one on Billboard's
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Speaker 2: Album's two hundred. But the drought is officially over, and
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Speaker 2: it's by a relatively surprising group. Swedish hard rockers Ghost
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Speaker 2: claim this week's number one spot, making them the first
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Speaker 2: rock band in over four years to do so with
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Speaker 2: their new offering Skeleton, despite goes not being mainstream or
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Speaker 2: receiving much radio play, so how they do it? Big
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Speaker 2: Factor is a devoted fan base which has been steadily
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Speaker 2: building for two decades, but a stroke of genius was
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Speaker 2: made by their visionary label, Luma Vista Records, offering more
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Speaker 2: than a dozen vinyl variants of Ghost albums, encouraging collectors
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Speaker 2: to take advantage. The results an unbelievable eighty nine percent
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Speaker 2: of their tally coming from physical album sales.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.