The Mission

The Mission is the sixteenth studio album by American rock band Styx, released on June 16, 2017, through UMᵉ. It is the band's first studio album since 2005's Big Bang Theory and their first release of original material since 2003's Cyclorama. The album reached #45 on the Billboard 200, propelled by pre-sales prior to its official release date, but fell off the chart after 2 weeks. U.S. Sales were approximately 15,000 copies, the album did briefly reach the Top 100 in four countries. The concept album tells the story of a mission to the planet Mars in the year 2033. The album's story was written by Tommy Shaw and Will Evankovich. Evankovich played a significant role, serving as producer and co-writing all but one of the full length tracks. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mis...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)