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Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska is making an impressive comeback more than 40 years after its release. Thanks to an expanded new edition and the simultaneous theatrical release of the biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the work returns to seven Billboard charts. And achieves top positions there.
The album, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 at the time, returned to No. 26 in the November 8 issue. The highest ranking since 1982 and the first chart week since 1985. This is reported by “Billboard”.
Even more remarkable is the success in new categories that didn’t exist in the eighties: “Nebraska” ranks third in Americana/Folk Albums, as well as in Indie Store Album Sales. In the Catalog Albums it landed at number 4, in the Top Album Sales at number 5, in the Top Rock & Alternative Albums at number 6, also on Vinyl Albums, and in the Top Rock Albums at number 7.
Biopic and reissue fuel the success
The new edition was released on October 24th – exactly on the day of the cinema premiere of the film “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere”, in which Jeremy Allen White plays the “Boss”. The expanded edition contains 27 additional tracks and is available digitally, on CD and vinyl. All versions of the album were combined for the charts. According to Luminate, “Nebraska” achieved approximately 18,000 “equivalent album units” in the U.S. for the week ending October 30. Of these, nearly 15,000 came from physical and digital sales, while the rest came from streaming revenue.
Competition in the strong album rankings
With these sales figures, “Nebraska” entered the Top Album Sales charts at number 5. Springsteen joins other strong newcomers there: Brandi Carlile landed at number 1 with “Returning to Myself”, Demi Lovato with “It’s Not That Deep” at number 2, Daniel Caesar reached number 4 with “Son of Spergy”, BOYNEXTDOOR reached number 7 with “The Action”, and Mammoth made it to number 8 with “The End”.
The remaining top ten albums included Taylor Swift (“The Life of a Showgirl”, now number 3), the “KPop Demon Hunters Soundtrack” (number 6), Stray Kids’ ex-leader “KARMA” (number 9) and Sabrina Carpenter (“Man’s Best Friend”, number 10).