Monday, May 25, 2026

Bob Dylan Lands 5 Albums on the Top 100 as “A Complete Unknown” Amps Up Box Office for Day 2

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All of a sudden, everything is about Bob Dylan.

You know, you can watch DA Pennebaker’s famous documentary, “Don’t Look Back,” for free on the Criterion Channel website.

Meanwhile, “A Complete Unknown” picked up $4 million yesterday on its second day of release. The James Mangold movie is so much of a hit that Timothee Chalamet’s soundtrack album is in the top 20 on iTunes.

Dylan was never a chartbuster. But today he has FIVE albums on the top 200, three in the top 20. His catalog is booming. “The Essential Bob Dylan” is number 5. Also on the chart is “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” the original Greatest Hits album, and “Blood on the Tracks.”

The times, they are a-changing!

New Dylan fans can also check out The Basement Tapes, with the Band, Nashville Skyline, Desire (one of my faves), and Shadow Kingdom, an album Dylan recorded during the pandemic that really is gold. We were lucky to get it.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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