In this issue:
A few important details about vinyl as it relates to the genre, plus this week’s Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, Active Rock and Mainstream Rock Radio charts, Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs, and first-week sales in Germany.1
This week’s Motionless In White number is doubly impressive given there was no vinyl edition. I have no doubt that vinyl would’ve added another 10k to their first week had it been available. For comparison’s sake, take a look at the vinyl numbers that figured into some recent first weeks. It’s straight-up wild.
HARRY STYLES
521,000 Equivalent Albums
330,000 Album Sales
182,000 were vinyl LPs
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
97,000 Equivalent Albums
83,000 Album Sales
38,500 were vinyl LPs
GHOST
70,000 Equivalent Albums
62,500 Album Sales
28,000 were vinyl LPs
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE
29,500 Equivalent Albums
23,000 Album Sales
No vinyl was available
GOJIRA
27,000 Equivalent Albums
24,000 Album Sales
8000 were vinyl LPs
ICE NINE KILLS
25,000 Equivalent Albums
18,000 Album Sales
No vinyl LPs counted
SPIRITBOX
23,000 Equivalent Albums
19,000 Album Sales
10,000 were vinyl LPs
BEARTOOTH
16,000 Equivalent Albums
14,000 Album Sales
7500 were vinyl LPs
TURNSTILE
15,600 Equivalent Albums
11,500 Album Sales
7800 were vinyl LPs
EVERY TIME DIE
14,000 Equivalent Albums
11,000 Album Sales
7000 were vinyl LPs
MANCHESTER ORC 12k of 16k
FOOS (DEE GEES) 12k of 15k
KIRK HAMMETT 6500 of 11,000
STATE CHAMPS 2500 of 4900
THE MAINE 2500 of 4500
CAVE IN 1700 of 3150
Thanks to pressing plant backups and supply chain issues, some bands — Trivium and BTBAM, for example — just straight up didn’t have vinyl in time for their first week. I have a new Demon Hunter album out in September, but vinyl likely won’t ship till November. Ice Nine Kills vinyl preorders didn’t ship in time to be counted toward their first-week sales.
Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs🔥
Week of June 25, 2022
Falling In Reverse “Voices In My Head”
Falling In Reverse “ZOMBIFIED”
FFDP “AfterLife”
FFDP “Welcome To The Circus” NEW
Motionless In White “Masterpiece”
HARDY “Sold Out”
Giovannie “Ramon Ayala”
My Chem “The Foundations Of Decay”
Three Days Grace “Lifetime”
Three Days Grace “So Called Life”
Loveless “Middle Of The Night”
Ghost “Call Me Little Sunshine”
Shinedown “Planet Zero”
SiM “The Rumbling”
MiW “Signs Of Life” NEW
MiW “Werewolf” NEW
Turnstile “MYSTERY”
DOROTHY “Rest In Peace”
Papa Roach “Kill The Noise”
Bad Wolves “If Tomorrow Never Comes”
MiW “Scoring The End Of The World”
MiW “Meltdown” NEW
MiW “Slaughterhouse” ft. Bryan Garris
Halestorm “The Steeple”
MiW “Cyberhex”
Hard Rock Digital Song Sales
Week of June 25, 2022
FFDP “Welcome To The Circus” NEW
Falling In Reverse “Voices In My Head”
AC/DC “Thunderstruck”
Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
Queen “We Will Rock You”
Parkway Drive “Glitch”
Lamb Of God “Nevermore” NEW
Metallica “Enter Sandman”
Bon Jovi “Livin’ On A Prayer”
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Guns N’ Roses “Welcome To The Jungle”
AC/DC “Back In Black”
Five Finger Death Punch “AfterLife”
Disturbed “The Sound Of Silence”
Three Days Grace “Lifetime”
Queen “Don’t Stop Me Now”
Queen “We Are The Champions”
Alice Cooper “School’s Out”
AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long”
Falling In Reverse “ZOMBIFIED”
Kid Rock “We The People”
Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train”
Aerosmith “Dream On”
Queen “Another One Bites The Dust”
Led Zeppelin “Stairway To Heaven”
Mainstream Rock Radio
Week of June 25, 2022
Five Finger Death Punch “AfterLife"
Bad Wolves “If Tomorrow Never Comes”
Three Days Grace “Lifetime”
The Black Keys “Wild Child”
DOROTHY “Rest In Peace”
Giovannie “Ramon Ayala”
Pop Evil “Eye Of The Storm”
Volbeat “Temple Of Ekur”
Nothing More “Tired Of Winning “
Bad Omens “Like A Villain”
Active Rock Radio
June 14 - June 20
Five Finger Death Punch “AfterLife"
Bad Wolves “If Tomorrow Never Comes”
The Black Keys “Wild Child”
Three Days Grace “Lifetime”
Giovannie “Ramon Ayala”
DOROTHY “Rest In Peace”
Pop Evil “Eye Of The Storm”
Volbeat “Temple Of Ekur”
Bad Omens “Like A Villain”
Nothing More “Tired Of Winning “
Korn “Worst Is On Its Way”
RHCP “Black Summer”
Halestorm “The Steeple”
Shinedown “Daylight”
Fozzy “I Still Burn”
Turnstile “MYSTERY”
MiW “Masterpiece”
The Offspring “Behind…”
Saint Asonia “Above It All”
My Chem “Foundations…”
Jack White “What’s The Trick”
Architects “When We Were…”
Falling In Reverse “Voices…”
Coheed “The Liars Club”
Eva Under Fire “Blow”
Crobot “Set You Free”
INK “The Shower Scene”
RHCP “These Are…”
Papa Roach “No Apologies”
The Warning “Money”
First Week Sales 🇩🇪
Germany
KREATOR 8200
WARDRUNA (LIVE) 875
WIND ROSE 700
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE 700
FUTURE PALACE 300
MICHAEL MONROE 300
Sources: Billboard, Mediabase, Misc.