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Sleep Token
Andy Ford

Sleep Token

Rock

Inside Sleep Token’s Record-Setting Crossover: ‘This Isn’t Some Niche Thing’

How anonymity, a fan-first rollout and buy-in from pop fans helped 'Even in Arcadia' score the biggest streaming week ever for a hard rock album.

A English hard rock band that performs in masks and cloaks is not the type of artist that regularly visits the top of the Billboard 200 — yet anyone who had been paying attention to Sleep Token’s rise over the past few months knew that their fourth studio album, Even in Arcadia, was going to have a strong debut.

After years of building a fan base, expanding their lore and inching onto the Billboard charts with increasingly higher peaks, the group kicked off the year by scoring their first career Hot 100 entries, as well as quickly selling out a slew of fall arena dates. When Even in Arcadia was released on May 9, its album tracks flooded streaming charts, a clear sign that the early enthusiasm around the album had coalesced upon its release.

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