THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR ROCK ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

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By Kevin Rutherford Dream Theater returns to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart for the first time in almost a decade, debuting atop the Feb. 22-dated survey with Parasomnia.

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My knowledge on the subject only extends a bit beyond what Buddy DeSilva and Lew Brown wrote 100 years ... debut albums in 1970. So did J. Geils. There was still room for R&B in the rock landscape ...

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Sometimes you come across a lush, gilded rock and roll song. Other times you find albums that are written along these lines—with big instrumentation, strings, backup singers. The whole nine yards.

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