In This Issue:
Beartooth makes a big first-week splash with The Surface.
Blue October, Twin Temple, Drums, Theocracy, Menzingers, Creeper, VCTMS, Free Throw, Body Void, ONI, and more, first-week album sales.
A new RIAA certification for The Cab.
Recent attendance for Blink-182, The Story So Far; 5 Seconds Of Summer, Meet Me At The Altar; Shinedown, Papa Roach, Spiritbox; Ghost; Iron Maiden, Atreyu; 3 Doors Down; Mudvayne, Coal Chamber, Gwar, Butcher Babies…
Billy Talent, Comeback Kid; Coheed And Cambria, Deafheaven; BABYMETAL; Agalloch; 311; Slowdive; Movements, Mannequin Pussy; Corey Taylor; Invent, Animate; Daughtry; Attila, Gideon; Fame On Fire, and more.1
New Signings ✍🏻
BRAT w/ Prosthetic Records
Couch Slut w/ Brutal Panda Records
The Libertines w/ Casablanca Records
The Omnific w/ Echelon Talent Agency
Reflections w/ TKO Booking
Soleil noiR w/ Extreme Management
Wheel w/ Sound Talent Group
New RIAA Certification 🇺🇸
THE CAB
“Angel with a Shotgun”
Self-Released (2010)
GOLD SINGLE
BEARTOOTH 🐻🦷
2.7M Monthly Spotify Listeners
708k Spotify Followers
482k Instagram Followers
464k Monthly Pandora Listeners
458k Facebook Followers
149k YouTube Subscribers
120k Twitter Followers
An incredible showing for Beartooth as the band’s fifth album in less than ten years passes the total activity of its 2021 predecessor. The Surface sold roughly 12,500 albums this week with a total activity of 16,500.
That total activity amount consisted of 7000 LPs, 2600 CDs, 2600 paid digital downloads, 200 cassettes, and 5.3M streams (up from 3.5M on Below).
The Caleb Shomo-led band’s latest tops the current Alternative, Hard Music, and Record Label Independent Albums charts. The Surface is No. 2 on the Current Rock Albums chart and No. 5 in Current Album Sales and Vinyl Albums.
It’s an honor to help tell Caleb’s story, all the way back to the very first EP, documenting each album cycle and artistic evolution via bios and interviews.
Big congrats to Beartooth, Thomas Gutches, Bret Bair, Dave Shapiro, Tom Taaffe, Amy Sciarretto, Emma Van Duyts, Red Bull Records, and their entire team.
First-Week Sales
12,500 / 16,500* - The Surface (2023)
14,000 / 16,000* - Below (2021)
10,000 - Disease (2018)
16,000 - Aggressive (2016)
8000 - Disgusting (2014)
*Total Activity
Album Sales 🇺🇸
CD, LP, Paid Digital
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