Beartooth, Rise Against, Baroness

Spotify Charts, BRIT Certifications, Recent Attendance

Last week’s Beartooth hometown show 📸: Beartooth Facebook

In This Issue:

New YouTube milestones for System Of A Down and Evanescence.

Linkin Park, Queen, Metallica, Deftones, Paramore, My Chemical Romance, and this week’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) artists on Spotify.

New BRIT certifications for Linkin Park and Radiohead.

Recent attendance for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Dublin); Slipknot, Bleed From Within (Stuttgart); Evanescence, Halestorm, The Warning (Ottawa); Beartooth, Dayseeker, Sleep Theory, Boundaries (Columbus); Rise Against, L.S. Dunes (Del Mar); The Story So Far, Superheaven (Columbus);

In This Moment, Kim Dracula (Columbus); Baroness & Graveyard, Pallbearer (UK tour); Death From Above 1979 (Chicago); Pinback (Del Mar); Blood Brothers (Boston); IDKHOW (Columbus); A Killer’s Confession (Grand Rapids); Bearings & Broadside (Seattle), and more.¹

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Management Signing ✍🏻

• Savage Hands w/ Cupid Theory

Record Label Signing ✍🏻

• Violent Vira w/ Mom+Pop

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System Of A Down’s music video for “Toxicity” passed 1 billion views on YouTube, joining “Chop Suey!” (currently at 1.4B) in the YouTube Billions Club.

Both were uploaded to YouTube 15 years ago.

Evanescence's “My Immortal” (also uploaded 15 years ago) recently crossed the 1B mark, joining “Bring Me to Life” (1.4B over the last 15 years).

The most recently released Hard Rock music video with over 1B views on YouTube is Disturbed’s “The Sound of Silence,” at 1B in nine years.

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Badflower, Bury Tomorrow, Cradle Of Filth, Electric Callboy, Eluveitie, Invent Animate & Silent Planet, Killswitch Engage, Knuckle Puck, LANDMVRKS & While She Sleeps, ONE OK ROCK, ONI, Papa Roach, Rise Against, Scowl, Shinedown, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.

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Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎

Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)

1. Linkin Park (No. 29 overall)

2. Queen (No. 94)

3. Radiohead (No. 106)

4. Twenty One Pilots (No. 111)

5. Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 122)

6. Metallica (No. 128)

7. Nirvana (No. 140)

8. AC/DC (No. 151)

9. System Of A Down (No. 162)

10. Green Day (No. 173)

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Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸

Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)

1. Linkin Park (No. 56 overall)

2. Jelly Roll (No. 77)

3. Deftones (No. 79)

4. Radiohead (No. 83)

5. Nirvana (No. 113)

6. Twenty One Pilots (No. 118)

7. Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 128)

8. Metallica (No. 137)

9. Green Day (No. 140)

10. Nickelback (No. 152)

11. Paramore (No. 158)

12. System Of A Down (No. 160)

13. Queen (No. 172)

14. AC/DC (No. 186)

15. My Chemical Romance (No. 197)

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BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧

LINKIN PARK
“Burn It Down”
(Warner) 2012
GOLD SINGLE

RADIOHEAD
“Let Down”
(XL) 2007
SILVER SINGLE

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Attendance