Bad Omens, Metallica, Mr. Bungle
Midyear Sales Report, RIAA Certifications, Recent Attendance, UK Album Sales
In This Issue:
The midyear sales report from Luminate reveals album sales are up across all formats (CD, LP, cassette, paid digital), with the Rock genre dominating total album sales, physical album sales, digital album sales, and digital song sales.
From the UK, I’ve got the Best Selling Vinyl Albums, Vinyl Singles, and Cassette Albums (Sleep Token! You Me At Six! Paramore!) of the year so far.
New RIAA certifications for Bad Omens, Fall Out Boy, and 3OH!3.
Bring Me The Horizon, Falling In Reverse, HARDY, Avenged Sevenfold, I Prevail, Pierce The Veil, and this week’s Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs.
This week’s top Hard Rock Digital Song Sales.
Mr. Bungle, Melvins; Beartooth & Trivium; Napalm Death; Haken; Fit For An Autopsy; Bury Tomorrow; and more recent attendance.1
Midyear Sales Report
I’ve cherrypicked a few details relative to our interests.
Catalog Albums make up 72.8% of consumption.
Direct To Consumer (D2C)
4.4M Total Sales (+20%)
3.6M Vinyl Sales (+26%)
1.7M CD Sales (+15%)
62k Cassette Sales (-14.6%)
Rock was 44.6% of D2C Sales.
60.3% vinyl / 38.3% CD / 1.4% cassette
In D2C, 60% of product sales are current releases.
2023’s Midyear Top-Selling Albums in the U.S.
(By Equivalent Album Units)
Morgan Wallen One Thing at a Time (3.3M)
SZA SOS (1.9M)
Taylor Swift Midnights (1.8M)
Morgan Wallen Dangerous (1.1M)
Metro Boomin’ Heroes & Villains (1M)
2023’s Midyear Top-Selling Hard Rock / Metal Album in the U.S. by physical and digital album sales combined is Metallica’s 72 Seasons (No. 7 overall) with 215k units.
2023’s Midyear Top-Selling Hard Rock / Metal Vinyl Album in the U.S. is Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (No. 9 overall) with 85k units.
Best Selling Vinyl Albums of 2023 So Far 🇬🇧
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Foo Fighters But Here We Are (No. 5 overall)
Metallica 72 Seasons (No. 19)
Paramore This is Why (No. 20)
Queens Of The Stone Age In Times New Roman (No. 23)
Nirvana Nevermind (No. 26)
Best Selling Vinyl Singles of 2023 So Far 🇬🇧
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the UK” (No. 1 overall)
Enter Shikari & Wargasm “The Void Stares Back” (No. 3)
Ghost “Kiss The Go-Goat” (No. 11)
Best Selling Cassette Albums of 2023 So Far 🇬🇧
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden (No. 4 overall)
Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust (No. 12)
Enter Shikari A Kiss for the Whole World (No. 14)
Foo Fighters But Here We Are (No. 15)
You Me At Six Truth Decay (No. 16)
Metallica 72 Seasons (No. 18)
Enter Shikari Live at Alexandria Palace 3 (No. 27)
Paramore This Is Why (No. 31)
Ghost Phantomime (No. 32)
Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs
Lil Uzi Vert ft. Bring Me The Horizon “Werewolf” NEW
Lil Uzi Vert “CS” NEW
Lil Uzi Vert ft. BABYMETAL “The End” NEW
Bad Omens “Just Pretend”
Linkin Park “Lost”
Foo Fighters “Rescued”
Falling In Reverse “Watch The World Burn”
HARDY “Sold Out”
CORPSE & Bring Me The Horizon “Code Mistake”
Sleep Token “The Summoning”
Bad Omens “The Death Of Peace Of Mind”
Ghost “Mary On A Cross”
HARDY “Jack”
Avenged Sevenfold “Nobody”
Metallica “72 Seasons”
Sleep Token “Take Me Back To Eden”
I Prevail “Deep End”
Staind “Lowest In Me”
Sleep Token “Granite”
Linkin Park “Fighting Myself”
Bring Me The Horizon ft. Lil Uzi Vert & Daryl Palumbo “AmEN!”
Pierce The Veil “Emergency Contact”
Bring Me The Horizon “Lost”
Shinedown “Dead Don’t Die” RE-ENTRY
Sleep Token “Chokehold”
Hard Rock Digital Song Sales
Royale Lynn “Six Feet Deep”
AC/DC “Thunderstruck”
Bad Omens “Just Pretend”
CORPSE & BMTH “Code Mistake” NEW
Liz Uzi Vert ft. BMTH “Werewolf” NEW
Falling In Reveres “Watch the World Burn”
Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
Disturbed “The Sound Of Silence”
Metallica “Enter Sandman”
Bon Jovi “Livin’ On A Prayer”
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Aerosmith “Dream On”
AC/DC “Back in Black”
Queen “We Will Rock You”
Coffey Anderson & Drew Jacobs “Mr. Red White And Blue” RE-ENTRY
Falling In Reverse “Voices In My Head”
AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long”
Falling In Reverse “Popular Monster” RE-ENTRY
Kansas “Carry On Wayward Son”
Guns N’ Roses “Welcome To The Jungle”
Rob Zombie “Dragula”
Papa Roach “Last Resort” RE-ENTRY
Def Leppard “Pour Some Sugar On Me”
Led Zeppelin “Stairway To Heaven”
HARDY “Sold Out” RE-ENTRY
New RIAA Certifications
BAD OMENS
“Just Pretend”
Sumerian Records (2022)
GOLD SINGLE
FALL OUT BOY
Mania
Island Records (2018)
GOLD ALBUM
FALL OUT BOY
“Champion”
Island Records (2017)
GOLD SINGLE
3OH!3
Want
Photo Finish (2008)
GOLD ALBUM
3OH!3
“Don’t Trust Me”
Photo Finish (2008)
5x PLATINUM SINGLE
3OH!3
“Starstrukk”
Photo Finish (2008)
2x PLATINUM SINGLE
3OH!3
“Richman”
Photo Finish (2008)
GOLD SINGLE
Attendance
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