Did the highest selling album of Judas Priest release before or after the one produced by Roy Z?
Redeemer of Souls Redeemer of Souls is the seventeenth studio album by the English heavy metal band Judas Priest, which was released on 8 July 2014. It is their first album without founding guitarist K. K. Downing, who quit the band in 2011 and was replaced by new guitarist Richie Faulkner. The album sold around 32,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 6 on The Billboard 200 chart, the band's highest charting position in the US after the group's previous album "Nostradamus" debuted at No. 11. This marks the band's first top-10 album debut in the US. It has sold 110,000 copies in the US as of February 2016.
Take On the World (Judas Priest song) "Take On the World" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, originally released on their 1978 album "Killing Machine", and released as a single in January 1979. It was the first Judas Priest single to chart in the UK Top 40, reaching number 14. The song was an attempt at producing a stadium shoutalong tune in the mould of Queen's "We Will Rock You". It was also covered by new wave band The Human League on their 1980 tour. As a single it sold around 400,000 copies.