Avril Lavigne, Dayseeker, The Cure
Album Sales, Spotify Charts, 100M Rock Club Additions, RIAA & BRIT certifications
In This Issue:
Linkin Park, Queen, Deftones, AC/DC, Nirvana, System Of A Down, and this week’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) artists on Spotify.
Several additions to the 1M Rock Club, bringing in large swaths of punk, post-punk, classic rock, 90s alternative, and artists with a single 100M+ hit.
Falling In Reverse, HARDY, Pearl Jam, Bring Me The Horizon, Nothing More, Halestorm & I Prevail, and this week’s Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs.
New BRIT sales certifications for Alice In Chains, KISS, Metallica, Nickelback, Oasis, Portishead, The Prodigy, Rammstein, and Van Halen.
A ton of new RIAA certifications for Avril Lavigne.
The Decemberists, Black Country Communion, Ulcerate, Dayseeker, The Early November, Crypt Sermon, Axel Rudi Pell, Fu Manchu, Malignancy, Rezn, New Horizon, Sunburst, Manafest, and Red Scare, first-week sales debuts.
Plus, news you can use and weekly updates on dozens of albums.1
Agency Signings ✍🏻
Archers w/ One Fiinix Live
Alain Whyte w/ 33 & West
Miley Cyrus w/ CAA
Management Signings ✍🏻
Archers w/ RM 64
100M Rock Club - New Additions
I’ve made several additions to the 100M Rock Club playlist, bringing it to a total of nearly 1300 songs with over 1M streams on Spotify.
The biggest additions are as follows:
Avril Lavigne (13 songs)
Oasis & Radiohead (11 each)
The Cure (10)
The Smiths & The Killers (nine)
Jimi Hendrix, Queens Of The Stone Age, Sublime (six)
Billy Idol & Thirty Seconds To Mars (five)
Four songs each: The Clash, Depeche Mode, Foreigner, New Order, Puddle Of Mudd, Simple Plan, Talking Heads, Third Eye Blind, The White Stripes, ZZ Top
Three songs each: Blur, Boston, BOYS LIKE GIRLS, The Cranberries, Joan Jet & The Blackheartst, No Doubt, Pixies, The Prodigy, Rush, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Two songs: The Black Crowes, Bloc Party, Blue Öyster Cult, CAKE, Cocteau Twins, Death Cab For Cutie, Europe, Everclear, Filter, Flyleaf, Foals, Goldfinger, Highly Suspect, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Kansas, Live, Lou Reed, Meat Loaf. Modest Mouse, Portishead, The Presidents Of The United States of America, Pulp, Steppenwolf, The Velvet Underground, We The Kings, Wolfmother
One: 4 Non Blondes, A Perfect Circle, AWOLNATION, Blind Melon, The Breeders, Buzzcocks, Candlebox, Chevelle, Chumbawamba, Crazy Town, Crossfade, The Cult, The Darkness, Echo & The Bunnymen, Eve 6, Fountains Of Wayne, Garbage, Harvey Danger, Hole, Interpol, Jane’s Addiction, Jet, Lit, Loverboy, Mazzy Star, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Morrissey, Nazareth, New Radicals, Phantom Planet, The Pogues, The Postal Service, Powerman 5000, The Psychedelic Furs, The Raconteurs, The Runaways, Silverchair, Slowdive, Spacehog, The Stone Roses, The Stooges, Sugarcult, T. Rex, Ted Nugent, Temple Of The Dog, Thin Lizzy, The Ting Tings, TV On The Radio, Ugly Kid Joe, Ween, Wheatus…
Follow the playlist and let me know of any oversights and new additions.
News You Can Use 🗞️
Spotify Launches Music-Only Subscription Tier In the U.S. — After Switching 97% of Subscribers to Bundled Offering - Digital Music News
Taylor Swift Has Released 34 Different Versions of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Across Vinyl, CDs, Cassettes - Digital Music News
Fans Angry After Pearl Jam Slash London Ticket Prices - The U.S. Sun
Bon Jovi Fans Say Autographed CDs Were ‘Autopenned’ - NJ.com
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 51 overall) ⬆
Queen (No. 69) ⬆
Twenty One Pilots (No. 91) ⬇
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 97)
AC/DC (No. 103)
Metallica (No. 108) ⬆
Nirvana (No. 136) ⬆
Bring Me The Horizon (No. 143) ⬇
Radiohead (No. 165)
Green Day (No. 171) ⬆
Rammstein (No. 191) ⬆
Måneskin (No. 193) ⬇
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Jelly Roll (No. 59) ⬆
Linkin Park (No. 63) ⬆
Twenty One Pilots (No. 78) ⬇
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 89) ⬆
Deftones (No. 102) ⬆
Metallica (No. 106) ⬆
Nirvana (No. 107) ⬆
HARDY (No. 112) ⬇
AC/DC (No. 122) ⬆
Queen (No. 125) ⬆
Fall Out Boy (No. 129) ⬆
Sublime (No. 165) ⬆
Radiohead (No. 174) ⬇
Green Day (No. 175) ⬆
Blink-182 (No. 184) RE-ENTRY
System of a Down (No. 185) ⬆
Bring Me The Horizon (No. 189) ⬇
Nickelback (No. 192) ⬆
Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs 🇺🇸
Streaming, Sales, Radio
Falling In Reverse & Jelly Roll “All My Life”
HARDY “Six Feet Under”
HARDY “Psycho”
Falling In Reverse, Tech N9ne, Alex Terrible “Ronald”
HARDY “Jim Bob”
Pearl Jam “Wreckage”
HARDY “Rockstar”
Bring Me The Horizon “Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood”
BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy “RATATATA”
Bring Me The Horizon ft. AURORA “Limousine”
Nothing More “If It Doesn’t Hurt”
Five Finger Death Punch ft. DMX “This Is The Way”
Bring Me The Horizon “Kool-Aid”
Sleep Theory “Fallout”
Halestorm & I Prevail “Can U See Me in the Dark?”
Bad Omens & Poppy “V.A.N”
Bring Me The Horizon “Youtopia”
Bring Me The Horizon “n/A”
Godsmack “Truth”
From Ashes To New ft. Against The Current “Barely Breathing”
Wage War “Magnetic”
Motley Crue “Dogs of War” RE-ENTRY
Def Leppard ft. Tom Morello “Just Like 1973”
Bad Omens & ERRA “Anything > Human”
Bring Me The Horizon ft. Underoath “A Bulelt W- My Name On”
New RIAA Certifications 🇺🇸
AVRIL LAVIGNE
“Here’s to Never Growing Up” (2013) 2x PLATINUM
“What the Hell” (2011) 4x PLATINUM
“Smile” (2011) PLATINUM
“Girlfriend” (2007) 7x PLATINUM
“When You’re Gone” (2007) 2x PLATINUM
“My Happy Ending” (2004) 2x PLATINUM
“Sk8er Boi” (2003) 3x PLATINUM
“Complicated” (2002) 4x PLATINUM
(Epic/RCA Records)
New BPI Certifications 🇬🇧
(Going forward I’m going to list the same release year as the BPI’s public database, rather than correcting the year of release for older material. I’m assuming the years they use represent when a track or album was released digitally, as they don’t list anything from the 20th century.)
ALICE IN CHAINS
“Would?”
(Columbia) 2005
SILVER SINGLE
KISS
“I Was Made for Lovin’ You”
(Mercury) 2004
PLATINUM SINGLE
METALLICA
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”
(Vertigo) 2008
GOLD SINGLE
METALLICA
“One”
(Vertigo) 2008
GOLD SINGLE
NICKELBACK
“Someday”
(Rhino) 2005
GOLD SINGLE
OASIS
“Supersonic”
(Big Brother) 2005
2x PLATINUM
PORTISHEAD
”Glory Box”
(Go Beat) 2004
PLATINUM SINGLE
THE PRODIGY
“Out of Space”
(XL Recordings) 2004
PLATINUM SINGLE
RAMMSTEIN
“Deutschland”
(Spinefarm) 2019
SILVER SINGLE
VAN HALEN
“Panama”
(Rhino) 2004
SILVER SINGLE
Album Sales 🇺🇸
Physical & Digital
Current Releases
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