Did you know that there’s a new Aerosmith album? Well, that’s not really exactly true. There’s a new record with Aerosmith’s name on the album charts, though. Aerosmith canceled their long-delayed farewell tour last year, but singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry keep getting back together to do things, including an Ozzy Osbourne tribute at the VMAs, which also featured the young British uncanny-valley rocker Yungblud. Tyler, Perry, and Yungblud also joined forces for the collaborative EP One More Time, and now that EP has put Aerosmith on the very short list of acts with top-10 albums six decades in a row.
Hey, look at that! A completely meaningless chart benchmark! Those are fun! As Billboard notes, the One More Time EP debuts at #9 on the album chart this week, despite not being an album. (One More Time has five songs, and one of them is the “2025 mix” of “Back In The Saddle.”) One More Time is officially the first Aerosmith record in 12 years. Their final studio album Music From Another Dimension! debuted and peaked at #5 in 2012.
Previously, Aerosmith had their first top-10 success when their 1976 album Rocks peaked at #3. Surprisingly, that’s the band’s only top-10 album from the ’70s. (Toys In The Attic and Draw The Line both peaked at #11.) Aerosmith also had one top-10 album in the ’80s; their 1989 comeback LP Pump peaked at #5. Things changed in the Soundscan era. Aerosmith had three top-10 albums in the ’90s and three in the ’00s. Some of those are greatest-hits collections, but they still count.
Thanks to the chart debut of the One More Time EP, Aerosmith join the Rolling Stones, their obvious inspirations, as the only bands with at least one top-10 album in six consecutive decades, from the ’70s through to the ’20s. (The Stones also had nine top-10 albums in the ’60s, so their streak is a lot longer.) Three solo acts are also on the six-decade list: Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and James Taylor.
In other album-chart news, Billboard reports that Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl has finally fallen from the #1 spot on this week’s album list. K-pop act Stray Kids debut at #1 with their new record Do It, which has 295,000 album equivalent units. Of that number, 286,000 are actual album sales, thanks in part to seven available CD variants. Beginning with 2022’s Oddinary, Stray Kids have released eight album this decade, and they’ve all debuted at #1. They’re the first group in history to pull off that particular feat. The Wicked: For Good soundtrack debuts at #2, with Swift all the way down at #3.
