21st Century Hard Rock Debuts
Plus: Top 40 Mainstream Rock, 🇺🇸🇬🇧Charts, Week's Most Streamed + more
In recognition of the strong first-week chart positions scored by SPIRITBOX on their debut album, I gathered the first-week numbers for several hard rock, metal, and punk(ish) acts whose first albums dropped this century.
Velvet Revolver
Contraband (2004)
No. 1 Billboard 200
256,000 first week sales
Certified 2x PLATINUM (2005)
Daughtry
Daughtry (2006)
No. 1 Billboard 200
304,000 first week sales
Certified 6x PLATINUM (2019)
Greta Van Fleet
Anthem of the Peaceful Army (2018)
No. 3 Billboard 200
87,000 first week sales
Slash
Slash (2010)
No. 3 Billboard 200
61,000 first week sales
A Perfect Circle
Mer de Noms (2000)
No. 4 Billboard 200
188,000 first week sales
Certified PLATINUM (2000)
Chickenfoot
Chickenfoot (2009)
No. 4 Billboard 200
52,000 first week sales
Certified GOLD (2009)
Alter Bridge
One Day Remains (2004)
No. 5 Billboard 200
Certified GOLD (2004)
Audioslave
Audioslave (2002)
No. 7 Billboard 200
162,000 first week sales
Certified 3x PLATINUM (2006)
Evanescence
Fallen (2003)
No. 7 Billboard 200
141,000 first week sales
Certified 7x PLATINUM (2008)
Device
Device (2013)
No. 11 Billboard 200
35,000 first-week sales
Mammoth WVH
Mammoth WVH (2021)
No. 12 Billboard 200
30,000 first week sales
Spiritbox
Eternal Blue (2021)
No. 13 Billboard 200
19,000 first week sales
I Prevail
Lifelines (2016)
No. 15 Billboard 200
19,500 first week sales
Linkin Park
[Hybird Theory] (2000)
No. 16 Billboard 200
50,000 first-week sales
Certified 12x PLATINUM (2020)
Falling In Reverse
The Drug in Me is You (2011)
No. 19 Billboard 200
18,000 first week sales
Certified GOLD (2019)
Andy Black
The Shadow Side (2016)
No. 22 Billboard 200
18,000 first week sales
Bad Wolves
Disobey (2018)
No. 23 Billboard 200
15,000 first week sales
Tremonti
All I Was (2012)
No. 29 Billboard 200
D.R.U.G.S.
D.R.U.G.S. (2011)
No. 29 Billboard 200
14,000 first week sales
Black Veil Brides
We Stitch These Wounds (2010)
No. 36 Billboard 200
11,000 first week sales
The Mars Volta
De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
No. 39 Billboard 200
Newsted
Heavy Metal Music (2013)
No. 40 Billboard 200
7600 first-week sales
Beartooth
Disgusting (2014)
No. 48 Billboard 200
8000 first week sales
Starset
Transmissions (2014)
No. 49 Billboard 200
Five Finger Death Punch
The Way of the Fist (2007)
No. 199 Billboard 200
5000 first week sales
Certified GOLD (2008)
Let me know which first-album first-week success stories I overlooked.
The week’s most-streamed artists
Sep 17, 2021 - Sep 23, 2021
Drake 317.9M songs streamed
Kanye West 132.1M
Lil Nas X 123.2M ⇧
Taylor Swift 103.6M
YoungBoy Never Broke Again 102.8M ↓
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Machine Gun Kelly 30M songs streamed (No. 57 overall)
Queen 23.7M (No. 75 overall)
twenty one pilots 22.1M (No. 88)
AC/DC 20.6M (No. 94)
Metallica 20.1M (No. 98)
Linkin Park 19.3M
Nirvana 17.8M
Panic! At The Disco 17.6M
Red Hot Chili Peppers 17M
Led Zeppelin 16.1M
Fall Out Boy 16M
Green Day 15.7M
Five Finger Death Punch 14.6M
Pink Floyd 14.5M
Paramore 12.9M
Slipknot 12.5M
Guns N’ Roses 12.5M
Three Days Grace 11.8M
Shinedown 11.7M
Blink-182 11.6M
Journey 11.4M
Weezer 11.2M
Greta Van Fleet 11.2M
My Chemical Romance 11.2M
Måneskin 10.7M
Disturbed 10.6M
5 Seconds Of Summer 10.5M
Breaking Benjamin 10.1M
Korn 10.1M
Aerosmith 10.1M
Foo Fighters 10M
Bring Me The Horizon 9.9M
System Of A Down 9.7M
Van Halen 9.7M
Nickelback 9.3M
Pearl Jam 9.1M
Bon Jovi 8.6M
Skillet 8.4M
Avenged Sevenfold 8M
Alice In Chains 7.9M
All Time Low 7.6M
Def Leppard 7.6M
Seether 7.5M
Mötley Crüe 7.5M
Papa Roach 7.4M
Tool 7.2M
3 Doors Down 7.1M
Godsmack 6.8M
Ozzy Osbourne 6.7M
Smashing Pumpkins 6.7M
Deftones 6.7M
A Day To Remember 6.6M
Falling In Reverse 6.4M
The Offspring 6M
Top Hard Rock Albums🇺🇸
The week of October 2, 2021
Spiritbox, Eternal Blue (Pale Chord/Rise) NEW
Metallica, Metallica (Blackened)↓ DIAMOND
Queen, Greatest Hits (Hollywood) 5x PLATINUM
Daughtry, Dearly Beloved (Dogtree/ADA) NEW
AC/DC, Back in Black (Columbia/Legacy) ↓ 3x DIAMOND
Iron Maiden, Senjutsu (Iron Maiden/Sanctuary/BMG) ↓
Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (Geffen/UMe) RE-ENTRY DIAMOND
Nickelback, The Best of Nickelback: Volume 1 (Roadrunner/EMG) ↓
Greta Van Fleet, The Battle At Garden’s Gate (Lava/Republic) ↓
Aerosmith, Devil’s Got a New Disguise: The Very Best of Aerosmith (Geffen/Columbia/Legacy) ↓
Bon Jovi, Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection (Island/UMe) ↓ PLATINUM
Foo Fighters, Greatest Hits (Roswell/RCA/Legacy) ↓
Linkin Park, [Hybrid Theory] (Warner) ↓ DIAMOND
Mötley Crüe, Greatest Hits (Motley/Eleven Seven/Better Noise) PLATINUM
Carcass, Torn Arteries (Nuclear Blast) NEW
Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade of Destruction (Prospect Park) ↓
3 Doors Down, Greatest Hits (Republic/Ume) ↓
System Of A Down, Toxicity (American/Columbia/Legacy) ↓ 3x PLATINUM
Rage Against The Machine, Rage Against The Machine (Epic/Legacy) ↓ 3x PLATINUM
Linkin Park, Meteora (Warner)↓ 7x PLATINUM
Korn, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (Immortal/Epic/Sony Music) PLATINUM
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (Swan Song/Atlantic/Rhino) ↓ 2x DIAMOND
Led Zeppelin, Mothership (Swan Song/Atlantic/Rhino) 2x PLATINUM
ZZ Top, Goin’ 50 (Lone Wolf/Warner)
Three Days Grace, One-X (Jive/Legacy)↓ 3x PLATINUM
Official Charts Rock & Metal Albums 🇬🇧
24 September 2021 - 30 September 2021
Genesis, The Last Domino? - The Hits (UMC/Virgin) NEW
Spiritbox, Eternal Blue (Rise Records) NEW
Iron Maiden, Senjutsu (Parlophone) ↓
Carcass, Torn Arteries (Nuclear Blast) NEW
Metallica, Metallica (Vertigo) ↓
Florence Black, Weight of the World (Florence Black) NEW
Amyl & The Sniffers, Comfort to Me (Rough Trade) ↓
Nirvana, Nevermind (Geffen) ⇧
Ozzy Osbourne, No More Tears (Epic) RE-ENTRY
Wildhearts, 21st Century Love Songs (Graphite) ↓
Hawkwind, Sonia (Cherry Red) ↓
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon (Rhino) ↓
Steve Hackett, Surrender of Silence (Century Media) ↓
Marillion, Fugazi (Parlophone) ↓
Foo Fighters, Greatest Hits (RCA) ⇧
Vega, Anarchy And Unity (Frontiers) NEW
Employed To Serve, Conquering (Spinefarm)
Dream Theater, Lost Not Forgotten Archives - Master of Puppets (Inside Out) NEW
Alien Weaponry, Tangaroa (Napalm) NEW
Nirvana, Unplugged in New York (Geffen) ⇧
Foo Fighters, Medicine at Midnight (Columbia)
Raven Age, Exile (Exi) NEW
Pink Floyd, The Wall (Rhino) ↓
Bring Me The Horizon, POST HUMAN - SURVIVAL HORROR (RCA) ⇧
Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (Polydor/UMC) ↓
Hard Rock Digital Song Sales 📲
The week of October 2, 2021
Bring Me The Horizon “DiE4u” NEW (No. 8 Rock)
AC/DC “Thunderstruck” ⇧ (No. 9 Rock)
Skillet “Surviving the Game” ⇧ (No. 10 Rock)
Jon Bon Jovi “BLAZE OF GLORY” ⇧ (No. 11 Rock)
Metallica “Enter Sandman” ↓ (No. 12 Rock)
Sabaton “Steel Commanders” NEW (No. 23 Rock)
Metallica “Nothing Else Matters” ↓ (No. 24 Rock)
Disturbed “The Sound of Silence” ↓ (No. 25 Rock)
Queensrÿche “Silent Lucidity” NEW
AC/DC “Back in Black” ⇧
Chris Stapleton “Nothing Else Matters” ↓
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” ⇧
Queen “We Will Rock You” ⇧
Måneskin “I Wanna Be Your Slave” ⇧
Evanescence “Bring Me to Life” ft. Paul McCoy ⇧
Miley Cyrus “Nothing Else Matters” ft. WATT, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo, & Chad Smith
Evanescence “My Immortal” RE-ENTRY
Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” ⇧
AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long” ↓
Matt Copley “Defying Gravity” NEW
Bon Jovi “Livin’ On A Prayer” RE-ENTRY
Queen “Another One Bites the Dust” RE-ENTRY
Guns N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle”
Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train” RE-ENTRY
Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” RE-ENTRY
Mainstream Rock Airplay 📡
The week of October 2, 2021
The Pretty Reckless “Only Love Can Save Me Now” ft. Matt Cameron & Kim Thayil
Foo Fighters “Making a Fire”
Chevelle “Mars Simula”
Pop Evil “Survivor” ⇧
Daughtry “Heavy is the Crown” ↓
Seether “Wasteland” ⇧
Halestorm “Back from the Dead” ⇧
Atreyu “Warrior” ft. Travis Barker ⇧
Asking Alexandria “Alone Again” ⇧
Ayron Jones “Supercharged” ⇧
Evanescence “Better Without You” ↓
Fozzy “Sane” ⇧
Volbeat “Wait a Minute My Girl” ↓
Mammoth WVH “Don’t Back Down” ↓
Papa Roach “Kill the Noise” ⇧
Bad Wolves “Lifeline” ⇧
Greta Van Fleet “Built By Nations”
Badflower “Don’t Hate Me”
Iron Maiden “The Writing On the Wall”
Architects “Dead Butterflies”
Coheed And Cambria “Shoulders” ⇧
Starset “Infected” ↓
Fuel “Hard” ⇧
Thrice “Scavengers” ⇧
Dirty Honey “The Wire” ⇧
DED “Kill Beautiful Things” ⇧
Lilith Czar “Anarchy” ⇧
Black Stone Cherry “Give Me One Reason” ⇧
Guns N’ Roses “Hard Skool” NEW
Trivium “Feast Of Fire” ⇧
Jerry Cantrell “Brighten” NEW
Twiztid x Ice Nine Kills “Envy” ⇧
Bring Me The Horizon “DiE 4u” NEW
Ice Nine Kills “Rainy Day” NEW
Dropout Kings “Virus” ft. Shayley Bourget ↓
Dead Sara “Heroes”
DOROTHY “What’s Coming to Me” ↓
Joyous Wolf “Fearless” ↓
Måneskin “I Wanna Be Your Slave” ⇧
Tremonti “If Not For You” NEW
Sources: Billboard, Official Charts, Rolling Stone