{"id":1873001,"date":"2026-04-08T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1873001"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:51:14","slug":"flea-makes-his-solo-billboard-chart-debut-with-honora-arriving-on-6-album-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1873001","title":{"rendered":"Flea\u00a0Makes His Solo Billboard Chart Debut, With \u2018Honora\u2019 Arriving on 6 Album Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tFlea makes his solo Billboard<\/em> chart debut, as his first solo album, Honora<\/em>, arrives on six album charts (dated April 11). The jazz project, from the longtime Red Hot Chili Peppers\u2018 bassist, launches in the top 10 on Billboard<\/em>\u2018s Jazz Albums (at No. 2), Contemporary Jazz Albums (No. 2) and Indie Store Album Sales (No. 3) charts. It also takes a bow on Vinyl Albums (No. 12), Top Album Sales (No. 16) and the overall Billboard 200 (No. 198).<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tRed Hot Chili Peppers Bassist Flea Announces Debut Solo Album, Drops Jazzy Love (Is) Supreme \u2018A Plea\u2019 Single:\u00a0Listen\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Honora<\/em> is the highest debut of 2026 thus far on either Jazz Albums or Contemporary Jazz Albums.<\/p>\n

\n\tFlea plays bass and trumpet throughout the Honora<\/em> album, which features guest vocal turns from Nick Cave (on a cover of the Jimmy Webb-penned \u201cWichita Lineman\u201d) and Radiohead\u2019s Thom Yorke (on the new original tune \u201cTraffic Lights\u201d)<\/p>\n

Honora<\/em> has been an album decades in the making, according to a press release from Nonesuch\u00a0 Records, which released the project. Flea grew up listening to jazz music from the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, before eventually picking up the bass and joining the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a teenager. \u201cWhen I was a kid,\u201d he recently told NPR, \u201cI wanted to be a jazz trumpet player. I wanted to be Dizzy Gillespie.\u201d Flash forward to 2022, and Flea (who played the trumpet as a child) began practicing the trumpet daily for the next two years, leading to the album\u2019s recording in early 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tFlea will bring Honora<\/em> on the road beginning on May 7 in Chicago, with tour dates lined up through July 11 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/flea-1800-2026-cr-gus-van-sant.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Flea makes his solo Billboard chart debut, as his first solo album, Honora, arrives on six album charts (dated April 11). The jazz project, from the longtime Red Hot Chili Peppers\u2018 bassist, launches in the top 10 on Billboard\u2018s Jazz Albums (at No. 2), Contemporary Jazz Albums (No. 2) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1873001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}