Linkin Park, FiR, Spiritbox
First-Week Album Sales, RIAA & BRIT Certifications, Hot Hard Rock Songs
In This Issue:
Linkin Park shot up 44 (!) spots on Spotify’s Weekly Top Artists Chart (worldwide), cracking the Top 10 at No. 8. The Top 10 is rarefied air occupied by Taylor, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake, et al.
Falling In Reverse’s Popular Monster (2024) is now certified gold by the RIAA as of September 17 for over 500k album units. Popular Monster contains the double-platinum title track and three gold singles, which started dropping in late 2019.
Linkin Park and Falling In Reverse occupy several spots on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (sales, streaming, airplay), with a debut from Spiritbox.
The Darkness’ “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” is booming again.
Green Day’s 1994 breakthrough, Dookie, is now 20x platinum.
New Blur, Jimmy Eat World, Oasis, and Stone Roses BRIT sales certifications.
First-week album sales for David Gilmour, The The, Dead Daisies, Phil Mogg, Fame On Fire, Many Eyes, Manchester Orchestra (live), Peeling Flesh, God Is An Astronaut, Boston Manor, Pyrrhon, Wolfheart, Jordan Rudess, God Dethroned, Elephant Tree, Future Palace, Hey-Smith (deluxe edition), and more.1
Agency Signings ✍🏻
The Acacia Strain w/ Sound Talent Group
DragonForce w/ Sound Talent Group
Drug Church w/ Sound Talent Group
Dying Fetus w/ Sound Talent Group
Frozen Soul w/ Sound Talent Group
Helmet w/ Sound Talent Group
Higher Power w/ Sound Talent Group
La Dispute w/ Primary Talent & TBA Agency
Linda Perry w/ CAA
Oxymorons w/ Sound Talent Group
Self Defense Family w/ Sound Talent Group
True North w/ Sound Talent Group
Your Spirit Dies w/ Dynamic Talent International
Management Signings ✍🏻
Dashboard Confessional w/ Q Prime
Liily w/ PMM
Record Label Signings ✍🏻
As It Is w/ Slam Dunk Records
Split Chain w/ Epitaph Records
TSS w/ Fearless Records
Unwell w/ Pure Noise Records
Walking Wounded w/ Relapse Records
Bones UK, Set It Off, The Offspring, chokecherry, Black Label Society, Silly Goose, Silent Theory, Underoath, As I Lay Dying ft. Alex Terrible, Whitechapel, Jinjer, Nightwish, Mastodon & Lamb Of God, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy Spotify playlist.
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 8 overall) ⬆
Queen (No. 66 overall) ⬆
Oasis (No. 91)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 106) ⬆
Green Day (No. 119) ⬆
AC/DC (No. 124)
Nirvana (No. 129) ⬆
Metallica (No. 130)
Radiohead (No. 132) ⬆
Twenty One Pilots (No. 134)
System Of A Down (No. 167) ⬆
Blink-182 (No. 190) RE-ENTRY
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 23 overall) ⬆
Jelly Roll (No. 52)
Deftones (No. 88) ⬆
Twenty One Pilots (No. 95) ⬆
Green Day (No. 96) ⬆
Nirvana (No. 98) ⬆
Blink-182 (No. 116) ⬆
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 122) ⬆
Radiohead (No. 124) ⬆
Metallica (No. 129)
Queen (No. 138) ⬆
Fall Out Boy (No. 147) ⬆
AC/DC (No. 148)
Nickelback (No. 156)
System Of A Down (No. 163) ⬆
HARDY (No. 168)
Paramore (No. 180)
Slipknot (No. 191) RE-ENTRY
Three Days Grace (No. 197) RE-ENTRY
The Smiths (No. 199) RE-ENTRY
Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs 🇺🇸
Linkin Park “The Emptiness Machine”
Linkin Park “Numb” RE-ENTRY
Linkin Park “In The End” RE-ENTRY
Linkin Park “One Step Closer” NEW
Linkin Park “Faint” NEW
Falling In Reverse & Jelly Roll “All My Life”
Falling In Reverse “Prequel”
Falling In Reverse, Tech N9ne & Alex Terrible “Ronald”
HARDY “Psycho”
Falling In Reverse ft. Saraya “Bad Guy”
Spiritbox “Soft Spine” NEW
HARDY “Six Feet Under (Caleigh’s Song)”
AJ DiSpirito ft. Zephyrianna “Bite Me”
Halestorm & I Preval “can u see me in the dark?”
Bring Me The Horizon “Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood”
NXCRE & The Villains “Usurper”
Sleep Theory “Stuck in My Head”
HARDY “Jim Bob”
Falling In Reverse “Trigger Warning”
Seether “Judas Mind”
Wage War “Magnetic”
BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy “RATATATA”
Five Finger Death Punch ft. DMX “This is the Way”
Catch Your Breath “Shame On Me”
Rain City Drive & Dayseeker “Medicate Me”
Hard Rock Digital Song Sales 🇺🇸
Linkin Park “The Emptiness Machine”
The Darkness “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” RE-ENTRY
AC/DC “Thunderstruck”
Linkin Park “In The End” RE-ENTRY
Spiritbox “Soft Spine” NEW
Linkin Park “Numb” RE-ENTRY
Disturbed “The Sound of Silence”
Metallica “Enter Sandman”
Linkin Park “Crawling” RE-ENTRY
Linkin Park ‘What I’ve Done” RE-ENTRY
NEW RIAA Certifications 🇺🇸
FALLING IN REVERSE
Popular Monster
(Epitaph Records) 2024
GOLD ALBUM
GREEN DAY
Dookie
(Reprise) 1994
20x PLATINUM ALBUM
New BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧
BLUR
The Best Of
(Food) 2000
5x PLATINUM ALBUM
JIMMY EAT WORLD
“Salt Sweat Sugar”
(Dreamworks) 2004
SILVER SINGLE
OASIS
“The Importance of Being Idle”
(Big Brother) 2005
PLATINUM SINGLE
STONE ROSES
The Very Best Of
(Silvertone) 2012
4x PLATINUM
Albums Sales 🇺🇸
Physical & Digital
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