In This Issue:
Electric Callboy’s TEKKNO (2022) passes 500M streams.
BMTH POST HUMAN: NeX GEn US sales and streaming numbers thus far.
Billboard’s report on heavy metal brand deals, merch, and TikTok trends.
Falling In Reverse, Jelly Roll, David Gilmour, Lenny Kravitz, Silent Theory, Sleep Theory, and this week’s Top Rock Music Videos on YouTube.
Linkin Park, Black Veil Brides, In This Moment, Poppy, I Prevail & Halestorm, Wisp, Slaughter To Prevail, Wage War, Paleface Swiss, Disturbed, Knocked Loose, and this week’s Top Hard Rock & Metal Music Videos on YouTube.
Recent attendance for Summer Sonic (Osaka); HFStival (Washington DC); Parkway Drive, I Prevail, The Ghost Inside; Pulp; Dashboard Confessional; The Warning; Soul Coughing; Everclear; The Dismemberment Plan; The Interrupters; Ace Frehley; Face To Face, The Bronx; Demon Hunter, Impending Doom, War Of Ages; You; The Lemonheads; Crown The Empire, Dark Divine; Gogol Bordello; Stryper; GEL, MSPAINT; Protest The Hero, ‘68, Grayhaven; Samiam; and more.
And a ton of recent signings.1
Agency Signings ✍🏻
Adam Jensen w/ MAC Agency
Bear Vs. Shark w/ Wasserman Music
Chalk w/ Wasserman Music
Convictions w/ 33 & West
Fake Dad w/ Forge Ahead Touring
Fairytale Of New York w/ 33 & West
fantasy of a broken heart w/ DISK Agency
feeble little horse / Mother Artists
HEISA w/ TOUTPARTOUT
Man/Woman/Chainsaw w/ Wasserman Music
Maruja w/ Wasserman Music
Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels w/ Madison House
Old Mervs w/ Atlas Touring
Soft Kill w/ Swamp Booking
The Tiger Lillies w/ Madison House
Tribal Gaze w/ Echelon Talent Agency
Management Signings ✍🏻
Rosegarden Funeral Party w/ BLCKJEANS MGMT
Wishy w/ The SoundClub
Yannis & The Yaw w/ Q Prime
Record Label Signings ✍🏻
Jack Starr w/ BraveWords Records
Lonely Empire w/ Golden Robot Records
Oversize w/ SharpTone Records
Pacing w/ Asian Man Records
Prima Queen w/ Submarine Cat Records
The Prophets of Addiction w/ BraveWords Records
Ritual Error w/ TNS Records
Social Order w/ AWAL
Surrender The Ghost w/ PNWK Records
Congratulations to Electric Callboy, Century Media Records, and their team on over 500M streams of TEKKNO (2022). Photo from top left: Dennis Moll (Century Media), Kevin Ratajczak, Daniel Haniß, Daniel Klossek, David Friedrich, Hendrik Czaster (Contra Promotion), Nico Sallach, Pascal Schillo, Jens Gödde (Exact Management), Álvaro Guerrero (Century Media). 📸: Christian Ripkens
In case you missed it, Billboard recently ran an article by Steve Knopper titled Heavy Metal Music Genre Report: Brand Deals, Thriving Merch Sales and… TikTok Trends?. Some great folks are quoted in the piece (almost all of them Stream N’ Destroy subscribers 😉), including Cory Brennan (5B Artist Management), Barry Drinkwater (Global Merchanding Services), Brent Rambler (August Burns Red), Keith Wampler (The Convalescence), Paul Mazurkiewicz (Cannibal Corpse), Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed), and Chuck Billy (Testament).
Top 50 Rock Music Videos 🇺🇸
This week’s ranking of the most popular Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube.
The Eagles “Hotel California (Live)”
3 Doors Down “Here Without You”
The Outfield “Your Love”
Stevie Nicks “The Lighthouse”
Evanescence “Bring Me to Life”
System Of A Down “Toxicity”
Audioslave “Like a Stone”
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Nickelback “Rockstar”
Player “Baby Come Back”
Alice In Chains “Nutshell (Acoustic)”
Berlin “Take My Breath Away”
Panic! At The Disco “House of Memories”
AC/DC “Hell’s Bells”
The Fay “How to Save a Life”
Boston “More Than A Feeling”
The Eagles “Lyin’ Eyes”
The Eagles “Take It to the Limit”
Falling In Reverse & Jelly Roll “All My LIfe”
Journey “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”
David Gilmour “Breathe (In the Air)”
Melissa Etheridge “I’m the Only One”
The Beatles “Let It Be”
Creed “Higher”
David Gilmour “Between Two Points” w/ Romany Gilmour
Danny B. Harvey “The Hollies - Long Cool Woman”
Radio Cam Xuc “Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends”
Jelly Roll “Dead End Road”
My Chemical Romance “Helena”
The Outfield “Your Love”
10 Years “Wasteland”
Shinedown “Simple Man”
Bon Jovi “Always”
Ugly Kid Joe “Cats in the Cradle”
Lenny Kravitz & Quavo “FLY”
Breaking Benjamin “I Will Not Bow”
Nickelback “Burn it to the Ground” v1
Nickelback “Burn it to the Ground” v2
Silent Theory “Fragile Minds”
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers “I Won’t Back Down”
Def Leppard “Too Late for Love”
The Villains & NXCRE “Twisted (Rock)”
The Rolling Stones “Beast of Burden”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Proud Mary”
Scorpions “Rock You Like a Hurricane”
Journey “Send Her My Love”
Motörhead & Ozzy Osbourne “Hellraiser (30th Anniversary Edition)”
Sleep Theory “Stuck in My Head”
The Verve Pipe “The Freshman”
Asia “Heat of the Moment”
Top 50 Hard Rock & Metal Music Videos USA 🇺🇸
This week’s ranking of the most popular Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube.
Linkin Park “In the End”
Linkin Park “Numb”
League Of Legends “Heavy is the Crown” ft. Linkin Park
Linkin Park “Heavy is the Crown”
Five Finger Death Punch “Wash It All Away”
Rob Zombie “Dragula”
Metallica “Enter Sandman (Live with the SFSO)”
Three Days Grace “Animal I Have Become”
Korn “Freak On A Leash”
AJ Dispirito “BITE ME”
Nini Music “Zombie - The Cranberries (Asian Folk Metal Version)”
Slipknot “Snuff”
BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy “RATATATA”
Deftones “Change (In the House of Flies) (Acoustic)”
Spiritbox “Soft Spine”
Mudvayne “Happy?”
Lyric Noel “Cry Little Sister”
Black Veil Brides “Bleeders”
Metallica “Sad But True (Live)”
Sleep Theory “Fallout”
Slipknot “Dead Memories”
Rammstein “Feuer Frei!”
Metallica “Seek & Destroy (Live)”
In This Moment “SANCTIFY ME”
Iron Maiden “The Trooper (Live)”
Slipknot “Spit It Out”
Poppy “they’re all around us”
Poppy & Bad Omens “V.A.N”
I Prevail & Halestorm “can u see me in the dark?”
Wisp “Your face”
Rammstein “Amerika”
Type O Negative “I Don’t Wanna Be Me”
Pantera “Cemetery Gates”
Korn “Somebody Someone”
Slaughter To Prevail “Kid Of Darkness”
Type O Negative “Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)”
Bring Me The Horizon “Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood”
Wage War “MAGNETIC”
Paleface Swiss “Hatred”
No Resolve “Bye Bye Bye”
Korn “Shoots and Ladders”
Leo “Funky Cold Medina”
Bullet For My Valentine “All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)”
Three Days Grace “Animal I Have Become (Lyric Video)”
Disturbed “Don’t Tell Me” ft. Ann Wilson
Linkin Park “What I’ve Done (Live)”
Deftones “Digital Bath”
Knocked Loose “Suffocate” ft. Poppy
Avenged Sevenfold “Bat Country”
Poppy “new way out”
BRING ME THE HORIZON
POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
(Columbia/Sony/RCA) 2024
222,000 - Consumption (US)
4800 - Physical Sales (US)
173M Spotify Streams (US)
48M Apple Music Streams (US)
12.6M Amazon Music Streams (US)
Attendance
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