Dave Matthews Band’s Latest Album Is A Rare Miss For The Group

BusinessHollywood & EntertainmentDave Matthews Band’s Latest Album Is A Rare Miss For The GroupByHugh McIntyre,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.Follow AuthorJun 04, 2026, 10:52am EDTTake Me Back: Live From the Gorge becomes one of only a handful of titles by the Dave Matthews Band to miss the top 10 on Billboard's Vinyl Albums chart. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 17: Dave Matthews performs with Dave Matthews Band at Madison Square Garden on November 17, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/WireImage)WireImageThe Dave Matthews Band remains incredibly popular across the United States, even if the jam rockers aren't in the spotlight in the same way that they once were. The group has ranked as a consistent seller for decades, though slight cracks in the foundation of its following have been showing for some time. In 2023, the Dave Matthews Band returned with Walk Around the Moon, its tenth studio album. The project peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, becoming the group’s first set to miss out on No. 1 since 1996, and its lowest-peaking effort since several years before that. The Dave Matthews-led troupe is back on the Billboard charts, not with a studio release, but with one more live collection. This latest effort – one in a long series of live projects, which have become the kind of drops Dave Matthews followers look forward to – debuts on multiple tallies, and it nearly nets the act another top 10.Dave Matthews Band Debuts Take Me Back as a BestsellerOn the Vinyl Albums chart, Take Me Back: Live From the Gorge misses out on the highest tier by only a few spaces. The live collection arrives at No. 12.MORE FOR YOUDave Matthews Band Rarely Misses the Top 10A pair of debuts and two comebacks sit higher than Take Me Back: Live From the Gorge, and had the live project been released during another frame, there's a good cha...