Red Hot Chili Peppers Knock MGK From No. 1 Spot on Billboard 200

Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Unlimited Love debuts at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart dated April 16, according to a report from Billboard this week (April 10). The album, the Chili Peppers’ first with returning guitarist John Frusciante since 2006, replaces Machine Gun Kelly‘s Mainstream Sellout at the top of the prominent U.S. albums chart.

That gives the Billboard 200 two successive No. 1 rock albums this year. The last time that happened was in 2017 when The Killers’ Wonderful Wonderful debuted at No. 1 that October, a week after Foo Fighters’ Concrete and Gold did.

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Unlimited Love, which emerged on April 1, moved 97,500 equivalent album units throughout the country in the week ending April 7, per Luminate, the Billboard-associated data firm previously known as MRC Data and Nielsen. Machine Gun Kelly’s Mainstream Sellout, released March 25, falls to No. 9 in its second week out.

In a statement surrounding Unlimited Love‘s release, the Chili Peppers said, “We (John, Anthony, Chad and Flea) spent thousands of hours, collectively and individually, honing our craft and showing up for one another to make the best album we could.”

They added, “Days, weeks and months spent listening to each other, composing, jamming freely, and arranging the fruit of those jams with great care and purpose. The sounds, rhythms, vibrations, words and melodies had us enrapt. We yearn to shine a light in the world, to uplift, connect and bring people together.”

And New Chili Peppers tunes could be coming in short order. Earlier this month, Frusciante indicated the funk-rock veterans saved choice material from the Rick Rubin-produced sessions to make a whole other album as an immediate follow-up.

The guitarist explained, “I definitely feel like we saved a lot of some of the best stuff for the potential next album, so I’m excited about putting that into a shape. … We went into the studio with about 45 [songs], and then a few songs got written while we were recording the basic tracks, or while we were in pre-production.”

Frusciante, who recently shared that he turned to the occult around when he quit the band in 2009, first revealed in February that the group had “recorded almost 50 pieces of music” ahead of Unlimited Love‘s release. He then said they had a “loose plan” to use them for an immediate follow-up.

In that same interview, RHCP singer Anthony Kiedis promised, “We’re gonna put out music by the handful. Literally. Don’t be surprised if another wheelbarrow of songs comes your way in the near future. … We have a lot of shit to turn people onto.”

For now, fans can get Unlimited Love, which features “Black Summer,” “Poster Child” and “These Are the Ways.” The Peppers will tour this summer.

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