Best-Selling Alternative Metal Album Re-Enters the Billboard 200 Over 23 Years Later
It's been just over 23 years since Evanescence released their debut album, and it just returned to the Billboard 200.
Fallen, the iconic 2003 alternative-metal album from Evanescence, re-entered the Billboard 200 this week, adding to its career total of 123 weeks spent on the albums chart.
According to new Billboard rankings, Evanescence just barely made it back onto the chart, occupying the 200th spot for the week dated May 30. Fallen, the gothic rock band's debut album, was released in March 2003, and it debuted on the Billboard 200 later that same month. It reached its peak in June of that year when it reached the No. 3 spot.
Fallen features some of the band's defining songs, like their smash hit "Bring Me To Life," which served as the album's lead single and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also includes other popular songs like "My Immortal," which reached No. 7 on the Hot 100 after it was released as a single in December 2003. Other songs on the tracklist include "Going Under," "Everybody's Fool," "Haunted" and more.
Evanescence has had two other albums chart higher than Fallen on the Billboard 200: The Open Door and Evanescence, which each had a one-week run at No. 1. But Fallen has spent more total weeks on the chart than any other album in the band's catalog.
Fallen was one of the best-selling albums of the entire year in 2003, selling over 17 million copies worldwide. It was the best-selling debut album of that year in the U.S., as well as the most-shipped rock album of 2003.
Rolling Stone included Fallen on its 2017 roundup of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time, placing it at No. 99.
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This story was originally published May 27, 2026 at 4:28 PM.