Tool's "Fear Inoculum" Had A Bigger Debut Than Kanye West's "Jesus Is King"

2019 has certainly been an active year for rock & metal fans and new albums by artists like Slipknot, Korn and Tool with little to no mainstream support. According to information compliled by Chart Data, Tool's Fear Inoculum charted as the sixth highest debut album of the year with over 270,000 copies sold, beating out Kanye West's JESUS IS KING, the Backstreet Boys' DNA, BTS's Map of Soul: PERSONA, and Khalid's Free Spirit.

Biggest US debuts of 2019:
#1 Lover 867k
#2 Hollywood's Bleeding 489k
#3 Happiness Begins 414K
#4 thank u, next 360K
#5 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WDWG? 313K
#6 Fear Inoculum 270K
#7 JESUS IS KING 264K
#8 DNA 234K
#9 Map of Soul: PERSONA 230K
#10 Free Spirit 202K

— chart data (@chartdata) November 4, 2019

Fear Inoculum was also one of thirteen albums to collect more than 100,000 copies their debut week in 2019. Slipknot's We Are Not Your Kind also made it on the list, selling over 102,000 its first week.

Albums to debut with over 100K pure sales in the US this year:
Lover
Happiness Begins
Fear Inoculum
DNA
Hollywood's Bleeding
Map of the Soul: PERSONA
WWAFA, WDWG?
Father of the Bride
thank u, next
We Are Not Your Kind
People
SuperM - 1st Mini Album
JESUS IS KING

— chart data (@chartdata) November 4, 2019

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