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"BABYMETAL" is the debut studio album by BABYMETAL. It was released on February 26, 2014 in Japan through BMD Fox Records. The songs from the album dates back to the origins of the band in 2010, and incorporates tracks from their earliest released singles, back when the band was a sub-unit of the Japanese idol group Sakura Gakuin.

It was released in three versions: a limited CD+DVD edition, a limited CD edition (only available to BABYMETAL APOCALYPSE WEB members) and a standard CD only edition.

The limited CD+DVD edition comes with a bonus DVD featuring five music videos, a live video clip for the song "Gimme Chocolate!!" from their live LEGEND "1997" SU-METAL, and 5 live videos from the SUMMER SONIC 2013 event. The BABYMETAL APOCALYPSE limited CD edition comes with different versions of the songs "Akatsuki" and "Song 4", plus a BABYMETAL artist book volume 2 (32-page full color "Holy Scripture" booklet). The standard CD only edition comes with 13 songs.

A re-release of the limited edition was released on July 26, 2014, to commemorate their 2014 World Tour. It contains same tracklist of the CD and DVD, but a new cover.

In mid-2015, the album was re-released worldwide under different record labels with two bonus tracks: the new song "Road of Resistance" and a live performance of "Gimme Chocolate!!" from O2 Academy Brixton.

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BABYMETAL APOCALYPSE limited edition cover

Babymetal re-release

Limited edition Re-Release cover

BabymetalPromo

Promotional photo for BABYMETAL

Editions[]

  • TFCC-86461 (Standard Edition) [1 CD]
  • TFCC-86460 (Limited Edition) [1 CD+ 1 DVD]
  • PPTF-8058 (BABYMETAL APOCALYPSE Limited Edition) [1 CD]
  • PPTF-1013 (Nippon Budokan Exclusive Special Set!!) [1 DVD]

Tracklist[]

Charts[]

Weekly charts[]

Chart (2014-15) Peak position
AT Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[1] 69
BE Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[1] 181
NL Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[1] 90
DE German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[1] 95
JP Japanese Albums (Oricon)[2] 4
JP Japanese Albums (Billboard)[3] 2
SCT Scottish Albums (OCC)[4] 91
UK UK Albums (ChartsPlus)[5] 103
UK UK Albums Sales (OCC)[6] 86
UK UK Independent Albums Breakers (OCC)[7] 7
UK UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[8] 7
US US Billboard 200[9] 187
US US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[10] 4
US US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[11] 50
US US Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)[12] 12
US US World Albums (Billboard)[13] 1
US US Independent Albums (Billboard)[14] 32

Year-end charts[]

Chart (2014) Peak position
JP Japanese Albums (Oricon)[15] 52
JP Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan)[16] 57
US US World Albums (Billboard)[17] 7
Chart (2015) Peak position
JP Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan)[18] 76
US US World Albums (Billboard)[19] 5
Chart (2016) Peak position
JP Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan)[20] 58

Audio[]

Spotify[]

Trivia[]

  • This is BABYMETAL's longest charting Album.
  • First BABYMETAL Album to reach #1 in Oricon's Daily Chart.

Videos[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Babymetal – Babymetal". Ultratop
  2. 「BABYMETAL」 BABYMETAL. Oricon. "2014年02月24日〜2014年03月02日のCDアルバム週間ランキング(2014年03月10日付)". Oricon.
  3. "Billboard Japan Top Albums│Charts│Billboard JAPAN". Billboard JAPAN. "週間アルバムチャートでうたプリ1位に、武道館実現のBABYMETALも善戦". Billboard Japan.
  4. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100 (07-06-2015 - 13-06-2015)". Official Charts Company.
  5. "Baby Steps: Meet the team behind Babymetal's phenomenal UK success". Music Week.
  6. "Official Albums Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  7. "2014-07-19 Top 40 Independent Albums Breakers Archive". Official Charts Company.
  8. "Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company.
  9. "The Billboard 200". Billboard.
  10. "Heatseekers Albums". Billboard.
  11. "Babymetal – Chart history". Billboard.
  12. "Hard Rock Albums". Billboard.
  13. "World Albums". Billboard.
  14. "Babymetal – Chart history". Billboard.
  15. "CDアルバムランキング – 2014年度". Oricon.
  16. "Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales Year End". Billboard Japan.
  17. "2014 Year End: World Albums Charts│Billboard". Billboard.
  18. "Billboard Japan Hot Albums Year End | Charts | Billboard JAPAN". Billboard JAPAN
  19. "2015 Year End: World Albums Charts│Billboard". Billboard.
  20. "Billboard Japan Hot Albums Year End | Charts | Billboard JAPAN". Billboard JAPAN.
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