The Black Market

The album's first single, "I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore", was released to radio on June 10, 2014. On June 13, 2014, the band released the artwork for the upcoming album. This was released on all the major social networking sites. On July 8, 2014, the band released the entire album for pre-release streaming via iTunes. "Tragedy + Time" impacted radio on October 21, 2014. Critical reception The Black Market received mostly positive reviews. It attained a score of 76 out of 100 on Metacritic's average of seven professional reviews. Matt Sloan of CultNoise Magazine scored the album 8.5/10, saying that 'some might consider the social commentary present in The Black Market to be, on the surface, too general and unfocused to be saying anything that hasn’t been said before. However, this is to do the band a disservice; The Black Market is an album about the weariness that comes from living in this world, in having to fight to survive.' MusicReviewRadar wrote that The Black Market "may not be as intense and enraged as their antecessors but, once you listen to it, you will find the political fight Rise Against always print on their albums". The album was included at number 33 on Rock Sound's "Top 50 Albums of the Year" list. The album was included at number 6 on Kerrang!'s "The Top 50 Rock Albums Of 2014" list. Commercial performance The Black Market is Rise Against's third highest charting album on the US Billboard 200, debuting at no. 3 and selling 53,000 copies in its first week. In Canada, the album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 14,000 copies in its first week. The album became Rise Against's highest position in the UK thus far after it debuted at number 13. Their previous peak was number 27 with 2011's Endgame.