The Grateful Dead’s Best Since 1987
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers score their highest-charting Billboard 200 album in 35 years as their new three-CD set, Dave’s Picks, Volume 42: Winterland, San Francisco, CA – 2/23/74, debuts at No. 12 (22,000 units). The band has matched or exceeded that ranking only twice before: in 1975 with Blues for Allah (No. 12 peak) and in 1987 with In the Dark (No. 6, powered by the group’s lone Billboard Hot 100 top 10, the No. 9-peaking “Touch of Grey”). The new release also opens at No. 1 on Top Rock Albums.