Who the heck would’ve thunk it?

From Billboard:

For the first time in 30 years, Bob Dylan tops The Billboard 200 with “Modern Times.” Not only is it the legendary songwriter’s first album to reach the throne since “Desire” in 1976, it’s also his highest debuting album and his best sales week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. The Columbia set moved 192,000 copies in the United States in its first week.

“Modern Times” is Dylan’s third consecutive top 10 studio set, following 1997’s “Time Out of Mind” and 2001’s “Love & Theft.” Aside from “Desire” and “Modern Times,” only two other Dylan albums assumed the plateau on the chart: 1974’s “Planet Waves” and the 1975 classic “Blood on the Tracks.”

Good on ya, Bob.

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Addendum 10:31 pm: I like this headline from E Online: Dylan Drops Danity, Squashes Simpson.

For the first time in 30 years, grizzled vet Bob Dylan is perched atop the album chart with his latest album, Modern Times.

For the week ended Sunday, Modern Times sold 192,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan–Dylan’s biggest sales week in the 15-year SoundScan era and his first number one album since 1976’s Desire.

The three-decade interlude between chart-toppers is a Billboard record. Rod Stewart had a 25-year gap between number ones, Santana and the Isley Brothers both had 28-year spans, and Barry Manilow went 29 years between number ones. (Among defunct acts, the Beatles went 22 years and Elvis Presley 29 years between chart-toppers.)

That last paragraph of trivia is worthy of “Theme Time Radio Hour.”

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