Black Sabbath, My Chemical Romance, Demon Hunter, Five Finger Death Punch

Attendance, RIAA & BRIT Certifications, YouTube Charts

The Dark Lord of the Riff and I, MI Conversation Series, 2017

In This Issue:

Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne return to multiple rock charts.

Sleep Token, Sleep Theory, BABYMETAL, Demon Hunter, STARSET, Ghost, Volbeat, and this week’s Top 50 Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube.

Evanescence, A Day To Remember, Breaking Benjamin, and this week’s Top 50 Rock music videos on YouTube in the United States.

Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs (streaming, sales, airplay) and Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, including a new song from Ice Nine Kills.

A ton of new RIAA certifications for My Chemical Romance.

New BRIT certifications for Biffy Clyro, Five Finger Death Punch, Radiohead, Sleep Token, and The Specials.

The Last Dinner Party earns a gold single in Canada.

Linkin Park now has six songs in Spotify’s BILLIONS CLUB.

AC/DC and Pantera add songs to the 100M Rock Club.

Recent attendance for Metallica (Denver); Guns N’ Roses (Dusseldorf); Slipknot, Motionless In White, Polaris (Berlin); Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan (Charleston);

Wu-Tang Clan, Run The Jewels (Baltimore); Incubus, Manchester Orchestra, Paris Jackson (St. Louis); Morrissey (Berlin); MJ Lenderman (Chicago); Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Seattle, Los Angeles, DC, Phoenix);

Joyce Manor (DC); Honey Revenge (DC); Vacations (San Francisco); Samiam (Boston); The English Beat (Salt Lake City); Burton C. Bell (Richmond); Gut Health (Northcote); Uncured (Frenchown); and Vinnie Stigma (DC).¹

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Agency Signings ✍🏻

• The Haunted w/ IAG

• The Missing Peace w/ Bandit Booking

• Novulent w/ Bandit Booking

• Palaye Royale w/ Wasserman Music

• PSYCHO-FRAME w/ Sound Talent Group

• VENUS GRRRLS w/ One Fiinix Live

Management Signing ✍🏻

• Waterparks w/ Range Music

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Linkin Park’s “One Step Closer” joins Spotify’s BILLIONS CLUB, where it now sits alongside fellow Hybrid Theory track “In the End,” as well as “Faint,” “Numb,” and the Jay-Z collaboration track, “Numb/Encore.” The BILLIONS CLUB is for songs that have exceeded the one billion streams mark on Spotify.

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Fat Mike, Louis Posen, Erin Kelly-Burkett 📸: Jonathan Weiner

Hopeless Records and Fat Wreck Chords revealed last week that Hopeless has acquired the California punk label’s extensive catalog, while Fat Mike and Erin Kelly-Burkett retain the name and trademarks. I wanted to bring to your attention a particularly killer detail that you may have missed: Fat Wreck wiped away the unrecouped balances of 100 artists, totaling around $3.5 million. Very cool developments from our friends at the mighty Hopeless and Fat. Cheers!

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100M Rock Club

Latest Additions

AC/DC
“Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution”
Back in Black
(Atlantic) 1980

PANTERA
“This Love”
Far Beyond Driven
(Atlantic) 1994

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All Time Low, Amorphis, Angel Du$t, BABYMETAL & Bloodywood, Dayseeker, Deftones, Demon Hunter, Halestorm, Ice Nine Kills, ERRA, Of Mice & Men, Rain City Drive, Simple Plan, Split Chain, We Came As Romans, Yellowcard, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.

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Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath’s Final Show Reportedly Highest-Grossing Charity Concert of All Time

"Back to the Beginning" raised more than $200 million for three charities, surpassing the combined total of FireAid and Farm Aid. - Billboard

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Top 50 Rock Music Videos 🇺🇸

This week’s ranking of the most popular Rock music videos on YouTube.

1. Eagles "Hotel California" (Live 1977)

2. AC/DC "Thunderstruck"

3. Audioslave "Like a Stone"

4. The Outfield "Your Love"

5. Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine"

6. Kid Rock "All Summer Long"

7. Staind "It's Been Awhile"

8. 3 Doors Down "Here Without You"

9. Eagles "Hotel California" (Live 1976)

10. Foreigner "I Want to Know What Love Is"

11. Bruce Springsteen "Born in the U.S.A."

12. Ozzy Osbourne "Mama, I’m Coming Home" (Live on MTV – 1992)

13. Creedence Clearwater Revival "Have You Ever Seen The Rain"

14. Creedence Clearwater Revival "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"

15. Ozzy Osbourne "Mr. Crowley"

16. The Rolling Stones "Beast of Burden"

17. Lynyrd Skynyrd "Free Bird"

18. Evanescence "Fight Like A Girl" (feat. K.Flay)

19. Creed "My Own Prison" (Official HD Music Video)

20. Guns N' Roses "Welcome To The Jungle"

21. Eagles "One of These Nights" (Live 1976)

22. Kid Rock "Born Free"

23. Metallica "Whiskey in the Jar"

24. A Day To Remember "All My Friends"

25. Big Head Todd & The Monsters "Bittersweet"

26. Tom Petty "Free Fallin'"

27. Ozzy Osbourne "No More Tears"

28. Def Leppard "Hysteria"

29. Def Leppard "Hysteria" (Official Lyric Video)

30. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "You Don't Know How It Feels"

31. Eagles "Take It Easy"

32. Eagles "Lyin' Eyes"

33. Queen "I Want to Break Free"

34. Fleetwood Mac "Everywhere"

35. Thrice "Black Honey"

36. AC/DC "Thunderstruck"

37. Lenny Kravitz "American Woman"

38. Journey "Wheel in the Sky" (Official HD Video - 1978)

39. Seether "Remedy"

40. Breaking Benjamin "Awaken"

41. John Mellencamp "Pink Houses"

42. Alice in Chains "Nutshell"

43. Ozzy Osbourne "Dreamer"

44. Nickelback "Rockstar"

45. ZZ Top "Legs"

46. Scorpions "Rock You Like A Hurricane"

47. Alannah Myles "Black Velvet"

48. Journey "Don't Stop Believin'" (Live 1981)

49. Gerry Rafferty "Right Down the Line"

50. Nickelback "Burn It to the Ground” (Lyrics)

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Top 50 Hard Rock & Metal Music Videos 🇺🇸

This week’s ranking of the most popular Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube.

1. Linkin Park "In the End"

2. Disturbed "The Sound of Silence"

3. Metallica "Nothing Else Matters"

4. Metallica "Enter Sandman" (Live with the SFSO)

5. Avenged Sevenfold "Hail to the King"

6. Slipknot "Psychosocial"

7. Bad Wolves "Zombie"

8. Black Sabbath "Paranoid"

9. Sleep Token "Emergence"

10. Sleep Token "Caramel"

11. Ozzy Osbourne "Crazy Train" (Animated Video)

12. Linkin Park "Up From the Bottom"

13. Black Sabbath "Iron Man"

14. Metallica "Nothing Else Matters" (Alternate Video)

15. Evanescence "Afterlife"

16. Sleep Token "Gethsemane"

17. TOOL "Schism"

18. Black Sabbath "War Pigs" (Live)

19. Sleep Token "Dangerous"

20. Disturbed "I Will Not Break"

21. Ozzy Osbourne "Crazy Train"

22. AJ Dispirito "BITE ME"

23. Sleep Token "Damocles"

24. Sleep Token "Look To Windward"

25. Sleep Theory "Static"

26. BABYMETAL & Slaughter To Prevail "Song 3"

27. Electric Callboy "Elevator Operator"

28. Sleep Token "Provider"

29. Metallica "Enter Sandman" (Live)

30. Three Days Grace "Apologies"

31. Bilmuri "MORE THAN HATE"

32. Megadeth "Symphony Of Destruction"

33. Demon Hunter "Sorrow Light The Way"

34. BABYMETAL "Gimme Chocolate!!"

35. BABYMETAL & Poppy "from me to u"

36. Linkin Park "Heavy Is the Crown"

37. I Prevail "Into Hell"

38. Linkin Park "Heavy Is The Crown" (LoL Worlds 2024 Anthem)

39. Sleep Token "Even In Arcadia"

40. Type O Negative "I Don't Wanna Be Me"

41. Lorna Shore "Unbreakable"

42. STARSET "SILOS"

43. Linkin Park "Two Faced"

44. Ghost "Satanized"

45. Iron Maiden "Run to the Hills"

46. Volbeat "By a Monster’s Hand"

47. Set It Off "Rotten"

48. Black Sabbath "War Pigs"

49. Metallica "For Whom The Bell Tolls”

50. Sleep Token “Emergence”

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Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs 🇺🇸

Streaming, Sales, Airplay

1. Black Sabbath “Paranoid” NEW

2. Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train” NEW

3. Sleep Token “Emergence”

4. Sleep Token “Caramel”

5. Foo Fighters “Today’s Song”

6. Falling In Reverse “God is a Weapon” ft. Marilyn Manson

7. Sleep Token “Damocles”

8. Sleep Token “Dangerous”

9. Sleep Token “Gethsemane”

10. Evanescence “Afterlife”

11. Sleep Token “Look to Windward”

12. Linkin Park “Up from the Bottom”

13. Papa Roach “Even If It Kills Me”

14. Sleep Token “Provider”

15. Three Days Grace “Apologies”

16. Sleep Theory “Static”

17. Turnstile “Never Enough”

18. A Day To Remember “All My Friends”

19. Muse “Unraveling”

20. Sleep Token “Infinite Baths”

21. Disturbed “I Will Not Break”

22. I Prevail “Into Hell”

23. Sleep Theory “Gravity” RE-ENTRY

24. Dayseeker “Pale Moonlight” RE-ENTRY

25. Five Finger Death Punch “I Refuse” ft. Maria Brink RE-ENTRY

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Hard Rock Digital Song Sales 🇺🇸

1. Ozzy Osbourne “Mama, I’m Coming Home” RE-ENTRY

2. Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train” RE-ENTRY

3. AC/DC “Thunderstruck”

4. Ozzy Osbourne “No More Tears” NEW

5. Black Sabbath “Paranoid” RE-ENTRY

6. Black Sabbath “War Pigs/Luke’s Wall” RE-ENTRY

7. Ice Nine Kills “The Great Unknown” NEW

8. Black Sabbath “Iron Man” RE-ENTRY

9. Ozzy Osbourne “Mr. Crawley” NEW

10. Disturbed “The Sound Of Silence”

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BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧

BIFFY CLYRO
“That Golden Rule”
(14Th Floor) 2009
SILVER SINGLE

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
And Justice for None
(Eleven Seven) 2018
SILVER ALBUM

RADIOHEAD
A Moon Shaped Pool
(XL Recordings) 2016
PLATINUM ALBUM

SLEEP TOKEN
Even in Arcadia
(RCA) 2025
SILVER ALBUM

THE SPECIALS
Special Collecion
(Parlophone) 2008
SILVER ALBUM

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Music Canada Certifications 🇨🇦

THE LAST DINNER PARTY
“Nothing Matters”
(ISL) 2024
GOLD SINGLE

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RIAA Certifications 🇺🇸

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
“Famous Last Words”
(Reprise) 2007
2x PLATINUM SINGLE

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
“Welcome to the Black Parade”
(Reprise) 2006
7x PLATINUM SINGLE

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
“Teenagers”
(Reprise) 2006
6x PLATINUM SINGLE

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
“Mama”
(Reprise) 2006
PLATINUM SINGLE

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
“I Don’t Love You”
(Reprise) 2006
PLATINUM SINGLE

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
“Disenchanted”
(Reprise) 2006
GOLD SINGLE

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
“House of Wolves”
(Reprise) 2006
GOLD SINGLE

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
“The Sharpest Lives”
(Reprise) 2006
GOLD SINGLE

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
“This is How I Disappear”
(Reprise) 2006
GOLD SINGLE

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
“The End.”
(Reprise) 2006
GOLD SINGLE

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Attendance