Van Halen will find out Wednesday if they have a #1 album when Billboard releases details about this week’s charts.
With their new album, “A Different Kind Of Truth,” the rockers are going head-to-head with Adele for top spot, which is a tough task these days. Adele just swept her categories to win 6 Grammys at Sunday’s event, and that momentum may result in a sales boost for the UK singer.
If Van Halen does reach No. 1, it will be the band's first chart-topping album with reunited frontman David Lee Roth. Their last album with Roth - “1984” – spent five weeks at #2, prevented from the top spot by the Michael Jackson powerhouse known as “Thriller.”
Riding high on “1984’s” success, Van Halen's other four other #1s were their studio albums with Roth's replacement, Sammy Hagar: “5150” (1986), “OU812” (1988), “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” (1991) and “Balance” (1995).
VH’s fifth #1 was 1996’s “Best Of Volume One” compilation, which featured two new tracks with Roth – his first songs with the band (at that time) in 12 years.
Now…just in time for Valentine’s Day, David Lee Roth serves up a sermon on today’s topic: romance.
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