{"id":803283,"date":"2020-01-21T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=939882"},"modified":"2020-01-21T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:58:46","slug":"rushs-2112-climbs-rs-200-after-neil-pearts-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rushs-2112-climbs-rs-200-after-neil-pearts-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush\u2019s \u20182112\u2019 Climbs RS 200 After Neil Peart\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(In the wake of Neil Peart<\/a>\u2019s death, interest in Rush<\/a> \u2014 the band that featured his virtuosic drumming and thought-provoking lyrics for more than 40 years \u2014 has surged, propelling their 1976 prog masterpiece 2112<\/em> onto the Rolling Stone<\/em> Top 200 Albums chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From January 10th through January 16th, the band sold 24,600 albums in the U.S., an increase of more than 1,000 percent compared to the previous week. The 2112<\/em> LP led the way, making it to Number 45 on the RS 200, moving 12,800 total album units last week. (The Rolling Stone<\/i> Top 200 Albums chart tracks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. by a combination of digital and physical album sales, digital song sales, and audio streams.)<\/p>\n

Overall, the band\u2019s on-demand audio streams jumped 340 percent week on week, totaling more than 16 million from January 10th through January 16th. Synth-rock anthem \u201cTom Sawyer\u201d led with 3.1 million, while FM staples \u201cLimelight\u201d and \u201cThe Spirit of Radio\u201d followed with 1.8 million and 1.6 million, respectively. The wildly technical instrumental \u201cYYZ\u201d pulled in just under 1.6 million streams last week. Song sales also jumped by a whopping 1,575 percent, with the band selling 28,000 track downloads.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s fitting that this week\u2019s top-selling Rush album was the one on which Peart, bassist-vocalist Geddy Lee, and guitarist Alex Lifeson solidified their identity as progressive-rock masterminds. The LP\u2019s entire first side featured an epic narrative suite \u2014 driven by Peart\u2019s Ayn Rand\u2013inspired lyrics chronicling a musician resisting an oppressive regime \u2014 that would become one of their most beloved pieces. But when they made 2112,<\/em> they were coming off 1975\u2019s commercial disappointment Caress of Steel,<\/em> and their future as a band was in doubt.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe called the tour for Caress of Steel<\/em> the \u2018Down the Tubes Tour,’\u201d Lifeson told Rolling Stone\u2019<\/em>s Kory Grow<\/a> in 2016. \u201cWe had passes made that had that on it. But that experience gave us the courage to stand up to what everybody was demanding of us. I remember clearly saying, \u2018OK, screw it. We may go down in flames, but at least we know that we\u2019ve done it our way.\u2019 There\u2019s no way we\u2019re gonna remake the first record [1974\u2019s Rush<\/em>] just because that\u2019s what the record company wants and they\u2019re worried about sales. So we dove into 2112<\/em> and there\u2019s a little more angst in that record than with Caress of Steel\u2019<\/em>s [suite] \u2018The Fountain of Lamneth,\u2019 which was structurally the same sort of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album ended up going multiplatinum and helping to unite a rabid Rush fan base that would remain loyal through the band\u2019s final shows in 2015 and beyond.<\/p>\n

News of Peart\u2019s death came as a terrible shock to the trio\u2019s many supporters \u2014 including everyone from Adam Sandler<\/a> to Mike Piazza<\/a> \u2014 as his lengthy illness had not been made public. \u201cIt is with broken hearts and the deepest sadness that we must share the terrible news that on Tuesday [January 7th] our friend, soul brother and band mate of over 45 years, Neil, has lost his incredibly brave three and a half year battle with brain cancer (Glioblastoma),\u201d Lee and Lifeson said in a statement on January 10th.<\/p>\n

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(In the wake of Neil Peart\u2019s death, interest in Rush \u2014 the band that featured his virtuosic drumming and thought-provoking lyrics for more than 40 years \u2014 has surged, propelling their 1976 prog masterpiece 2112 onto the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. From January 10th through January 16th, the band sold 24,600 albums in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 03:47:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}