Warner Music has announced that their first collaboration with IRON MAIDEN for theBritish heavy metal legends’ new album has resulted in a resounding first-week global chart success. MAIDEN’s sixteenth — and first ever double — studio album, “The Book Of Souls”, was released worldwide on September 4 through Parlophone Records (BMG in the U.S.A).

IRON MAIDEN maintain their status as one of the foremost contemporary and influential rock bands in the world as they debut at No. 1 in the U.K. with “The Book Of Souls” (their fifth No. 1 album here, the first being 1982’s seminal “The Number Of The Beast” album) and 23 other countries to date with many more still to be reported.