In This Issue:
Architects’ first-week album sales and chart positions, plus first-week sales for Avantasia, Cloakroom, Robin McAuley, Grima, Year Of The Cobra, Dark Chapel, Vacuous, Perfect Plan, Brainstorm, Eric Bass, Bronco, Enemy Inside, Edge Of Sanity, and Dirkschneider, and weekly updates on dozens of albums.
Ghost, STARSET, and this week’s Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs.
Another Motörhead song joins the 100M Rock Club.
Another 311 song goes platinum.
Recent attendance for Green Day, The Offspring (Dubai); Pantera, Power Trip, (Zurich); Dropkick Murphys, The Menzingers (Washington, DC); Bright Eyes (Portland, Oakland); The Plot In You, Holding Absence, Boundaries (Chicago);
State Champs (Birmingham, UK); Counterparts, Pain Of Truth, Malevolence, Foreign Hands (Boston); Apocalyptica (Portland); Palaye Royale, Johnnie Guilbert (Seattle, Charleston); Kvelertak (UK); Escape The Fate, Convictions (Grand Junction); 10 Years (Indianapolis); Tim “Ripper” Owens & Beyond Fear (Richmond, AU); Marty Friedman (New York, Boston); Radkey (Columbia, MO).1
Agency Signings ✍🏻
The Alarm w/ Motion
DoFlame w/ All Artists
4 Non Blondes w/ Wasserman
Dead Rabbits w/ TKO
Femmes of Rock w/ Paladin
Nature TV w/ Ground Control
Public Image Ltd w/ Motion
Spin Doctors w/ Motion
Management Signings ✍🏻
Big Ass Truck I.E. w/ SL
Pain of Truth w/ Gold Theory
100M Rock Club
Latest Additions
MOTÖRHEAD
“The Game (Triple H)”
WWE: The Music, Vol. 5
(WWE, Inc.) 2012
Top Hard Rock Albums 🇺🇸
Streaming & Sales, Current & Catalog
Nickelback The Best of Nickelback: Volume 1
Queen Greatest Hits
Linkin Park Meteora
Creed Greatest Hits
Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits
Linkin Park Papercuts
Architects The Sky, The Earth & All Between NEW
Aerosmith Greatest Hits
Metallica Metallica
System Of A Down Toxicity
3 Doors Down The Greatest Hits
Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1
AC/DC Back in Black
Alice In Chains Dirt
Three Days Grace One-X
Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet RE-ENTRY
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Deftones Around the Fur
Seether Vicennial: 2 Decades of Seether RE-ENTRY
Evanescence Fallen
Motley Crue Greatest Hits RE-ENTRY
Falling In Reverse Popular Monster RE-ENTRY
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine
HARDY the mockingbird & THE CROW
Linkin Park From Zero
Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs 🇺🇸
Streaming, Airplay, Sales
Linkin Park “The Emptiness Machine”
Linkin Park “Heavy is the Crown”
Disturbed “I Will Not Break”
Ghost “Satanized” NEW
Breaking Benjamin “Awaken”
Three Days Grace “Mayday”
Papa Roach “Even If It Kills Me”
Falling In Reverse “Bad Guy” ft. Saraya
Sleep Theory “Stuck in My Head”
HARDY “Jim Bob”
Shinedown “Dance, Kid, Dance”
STARSET “Dark Things” NEW
Sleep Theory “Static”
The Funeral Portrait “Holy Water” ft. Ivan Moody
Architects “Blackhole”
Architects “Everything Ends” NEW
Linkin Park “Two Faced”
Architects “Whiplash” NEW
Architects “Elegy” NEW
Architects & House Of Protection “Brain Dead” NEW
NOTHING MORE “HOUSE ON SAND” ft. Eric Vanlerberghe
Seether “Walls Come Down”
A Day To Remember “Make It Make Sense”
Poppy “new way out”
Billy Morrison & Ozzy Osbourne “Gods of Rock N’ Roll” ft. Steve Stevens
RIAA Certification 🇺🇸
311
“All Mixed Up”
(Volcano) 1995
PLATINUM SINGLE
ARCHITECTS
By The Numbers
2.9M Monthly Spotify Listeners
1.1M Spotify Followers
825k Facebook Followers
638k Instagram Followers
321k YouTube Subscribers
195k X (Twitter) Followers
The Sky, the Earth & All Between
(Epitaph Records) 2025
No. 1 UK Rock & Metal Albums
No. 2 UK Albums (OCC)
No. 3 German Albums
No. 7 Scottish Albums
No. 8 Australian Albums
No. 8 Swedish Albums
No. 7 US Top Hard Rock
No. 152 Billboard 200
Congrats to Architects and their team at Epitaph & MDDN!
First-Week Album Sales 🇺🇸
5200 - The Sky, The Earth… (2025)
2800 - The Classic Symptoms… (2022)
6700 - For Those That Wish to Exist (2021)
First-Week Sales & Streams 🇩🇪
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