Within an hour of pre-order availability, Dark Before Dawn reached No. 1 on the rock albums chart on iTunes and No. 3 on the overall album chart. It sold 135,000 pure album units and 141,000 equivalent album units in its first week, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making the album the group’s heretofore most successful sales effort. It achieved gold certification on August 18, 2016. The disc’s lead single “Failure” spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart as well. Billboard ‘ s Jason Lipshutz felt the album’s success was “eyebrow-raising”, noting that, in addition to the band’s lineup change, “135,000 in pure album sales is a hefty number in 2015—it’s a bigger number than the respective bows of recent Madonna, ASAP Rocky, and Kelly Clarkson albums”.
achieved gold certification
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