Bad Wolves, Sabaton, The Hu

New RIAA Certifications, Recent Attendance...

The Hu 📸: E. Altankhuyag

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

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Jelly Roll

Jelly Roll with Madrox & Monoxide aka Twiztid 📸: Jelly Roll’s Facebook

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.)

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New RIAA Certifications 

Doc Coyle

Doc Coyle on Instagram: “Just found out that @badwolvesofficial “Hear Me Now” went Gold. Our 2nd in the states (“Zombie” is 3x platinum) and our first for an original song, so it’s a huge accomplishment for the band. I really can’t take any credit. I’m lucky to be around such talented and hard working people. #badwolves #diamante”

June 15, 2023

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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Attendance

Sabaton at London’s Wembley Arena – 15 April. 📸: Robert Sutton/MetalTalk