In This Issue:
A breakdown of Jelly Roll’s 90,000 first week.
Bad Wolves "Zombie” goes triple platinum, and “Hear Me Now” is gold.
Plus, new RIAA certifications for Bad Wolves’ Better Noise Music label mates Five Finger Death Punch, The Hu, and Nothing More.
Recent attendance for Sabaton, Babymetal, Lordi; Journey, Toto; The Sisters Of Mercy; Godsmack; Coheed And Cambria, Deafheaven; Bad Omens, ERRA, Invent, Animate; Avatar, Veil Of Maya; Twiztid, Blaze Ya Dead Homie; Wage War, Nothing, Nowhere, Spite; Silverstein, Dayseeker; I Prevail; Gorilla Biscuits; Chelsea Grin, Carnifex; The Black Dahlia Murder, Terror; Carcass, Municipal Waste, Sacred Reich, Creeping Death; Caskets; Vader; and more.1
Jelly Roll
Jelly Roll’s Whitsitt Chapel is the No. 1 Album on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albusm chart and No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart. The album moved 90,000 equivalent album units in its first week, according to Luminate. 63,000 of those units were physical media and paid downloads. At No. 3 on the Billboard 200, it’s the first Top 10 album for Jason Bradley DeFord.
There were three different vinyl versions available, including a Walmart exclusive color; a standard CD; a web-store exclusive autographed CD; a big discount on the digital version ($4.20 on his website), nine deluxe CD box sets (with merch), and a “hymnal” zine/CD package.
Jelly is the latest in a handful of artists to make a splash on both the Top Rock & Alternative and Top Country charts, following on the heels of HARDY (2023), Zach Bryan (2022), and Jason Isbell (2020). (Read more at Billboard.)
New RIAA Certifications
BAD WOLVES
“Zombie”
(Better Noise) 2018
3x PLATINUM SINGLE
BAD WOLVES
“Hear Me Now”
(Better Noise) 2018
GOLD SINGLE
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
“A Little Bit Off”
(Better Noise) 2020
PLATINUM SINGLE
THE HU
“Wolf Totem”
(Better Noise) 2018
GOLD SINGLE
NOTHING MORE
“Go To War”
(Better Noise) 2017
GOLD SINGLE
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