{"id":31383,"date":"2025-02-05T18:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-5-1983-def-leppards-pyromania-makes-billboard-200-chart-debut\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:02:24","slug":"on-this-day-feb-5-1983-def-leppards-pyromania-makes-billboard-200-chart-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-5-1983-def-leppards-pyromania-makes-billboard-200-chart-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Feb. 5, 1983: Def Leppard\u2019s &#8216;Pyromania&#8217; makes &#8216;Billboard&#8217; 200 chart debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-05\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Feb. 5,1983\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Def Leppard\u2019<\/strong>s third album, <em>Pyromania<\/em>, made its <em>Billboard<\/em> 200 chart debut.<\/p>\n<p>The record, which featured the hits \u201cPhotograph,\u201d \u201cFoolin\u2019\u201d and \u201cRock of Ages,\u201d spent a total of 124 weeks on the <em>Billboard<\/em> 200, although it never made it to #1, and had to settle for #2.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pyromania <\/em>was the band&#8217;s first album to feature guitarist <strong>Phil Collen. <\/strong>It\u00a0went on to become Def Leppard\u2019s most successful record, selling over 10 million copies, and being certified Diamond by the RIAA.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, in celebration of the album\u2019s 40th anniversary, Def Leppard released a deluxe edition of <em>Pyromania<\/em>\u00a0featuring unheard demos from the band\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Feb. 5,1983\u2026 Def Leppard\u2019s third album, Pyromania, made its Billboard 200 chart debut. The record, which featured the hits \u201cPhotograph,\u201d \u201cFoolin\u2019\u201d and \u201cRock of Ages,\u201d spent a total of 124 weeks on the Billboard 200, although it never made it to #1, and had to settle for<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-5-1983-def-leppards-pyromania-makes-billboard-200-chart-debut\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}