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\n\tDream Theater<\/a> returns to No. 1 on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Top Hard Rock Albums<\/a> chart for the first time in almost a decade, debuting atop the Feb. 22-dated survey with Parasomnia.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tThe set bows with 18,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 13, according to Luminate. The majority of the sum \u2013 16,000 units \u2013 is in album sales.<\/p>\n \n\tThe group rules nearly nine years to the date of its most recent No. 1; The Astonishing<\/em> arrived atop the Feb. 20, 2016, tally.<\/p>\n \n\tIn all, Dream Theater boasts four No. 1s on Top Hard Rock Albums since the ranking began in 2007. Black Clouds & Silver Linings<\/em> led in 2009, followed by the act\u2019s self-titled release in 2013, prior to The Astonishing<\/em> and Parasomnia<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tDuring its break from No. 1, Dream Theater appeared on the ranking with two No. 3-peaking titles: Distance Over Time<\/em> in 2019 and A View From the Top of the World<\/em> in 2021.<\/p>\n \n\tParasomnia<\/em> marks the band\u2019s first full-length since the 2023 return of founding drummer Mike Portnoy, who had left in 2010. Dream Theater formed in Boston in 1985 when its original members were attending Berklee College of Music. Parasomnia<\/em> is the group\u2019s 16th studio album.<\/p>\n \n\tConcurrently, Parasomnia starts at No. 6 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums<\/a>. On the all-format Billboard 200<\/a>, the set begins at No. 41. Its vinyl album sale count (4,000) is also good for a No. 11 start on Vinyl Albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n