In This Issue:
The KISS disco hit “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” joins Spotify’s BILLIONS CLUB.
The Last Dinner Party joins Stream N’ Destroy’s Spotify 100M Rock Club.
Black Veil Brides, The Cranberries, Idles, Oasis, The Offspring, The Smiths, and Twenty One Pilots earn new sales awards in the UK.
Set It Off earns another gold single in America.
Linkin Park, Queen, Metallica, Bring Me The Horizon, Deftones, and this week’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) artists on Spotify.
Full Of Hell, Knocked Loose, Candy, and the Best Metal, Punk & Hardcore, and Emo & Post-Hardcore Albums of 2024 So Far, according to Revolver and BrooklynVegan.1
Record Label Signings ✍🏻
Arctis w/ Napalm Records
Miss May I w/ Solid State Records
The Last Dinner Party’s “Nothing Matters” (2024) passes 100M on Spotify.
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 54 overall) ↓
Queen (No. 70) ↑
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 89) ↑
AC/DC (No. 99) ↑
Twenty One Pilots (No. 115) ↓
Metallica (No. 116) ↑
Nirvana (No. 147) ↑
Radiohead (No. 160) ↑
System Of A Down (No. 169) ↑
Bring Me The Horizon (No. 195) ↓
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Jelly Roll (No. 73) ↓
Linkin Park (No. 79) ↓
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 84)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 102) ↓
Deftones (No. 106) ↑
mgk (No. 109) ↑
AC/DC (No. 115) ↑
Nirvana (No. 116) ↑
Metallica (No. 120) ↑
Fall Out Boy (No. 129) ↑
Queen (No. 134) ↑
HARDY (No. 145) ↓
Nickelback (No. 155) ↓
Blink-182 (No. 156) ↑
Green Day (No. 157) ↑
Radiohead (No. 168) ↑
System Of A Down (No. 177) ↑
Sublime (No. 185) ↓
WARGASM (UK) ft. Corey Taylor, Thousand Below, Unearth, Charlotte Wessels & Simone Simons, High Parasite, Wind Rose, Great American Ghost, In Aphelion, And So I Watch You From Afar, Oceano, 156/Silence, Earthburner, Kaosis, A Night In Texas, Trench ft. City And Colour, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.
New BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧
200k - Silver Single
400k - Gold Single
600k - Platinum Single
60k - Silver Album
100k - Gold Album
300k - Platinum Album
BLACK VEIL BRIDES
Wretched And Divine - The Story of the Wild Ones
(Island) 2013
SILVER ALBUM
THE CRANBERRIES
“Zombie”
(Island) 2004
3x PLATINUM SINGLE
IDLES
Ultra Mono
(Partisan) 2020
SILVER ALBUM
OASIS
“Live Forever”
(Big Brother) 2004
3x PLATINUM SINGLE
THE OFFSPRING
“Original Prankster”
(Columbia) 2004
SILVER SINGLE
THE SMITHS
“The Boy with the Thorn in His Side”
(Rhino) 2008
SILVER SINGLE
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
“Chlorine”
(Atlantic/FBR) 2018
GOLD SINGLE
New RIAA Certification 🇺🇸
500k - Gold Single/Album
1M - Platinum Single/Album
SET IT OFF
“Why Worry”
(Equal Vision Records) 2014
GOLD SINGLE
25 Best Metal Albums of 2024 So Far
According to BrooklynVegan
Head over to BrooklynVegan for the full write-ups and links to music.
200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures (Metal Blade)
Alcest Les Chants De L’Aurore (Nuclear Blast)
Bongripper Empty (The Great Barrier Records)
Candy It’s Inside You (Relapse)
Civerous Maze Envy (20 Buck Spin)
Couch Slut You Could Do It Tonight (Brutal Panda)
Frail Body Artificial Bouquet (Deathwish)
Full Of Hell Coagulated Bliss (Closed Casket Activities)
Gatecreeper Dark Superstition (Nuclear Blast)
High On Fire Cometh the Storm (MNRK Heavy)
Hulder Verses in Oath (20 Buck Spin)
Huntsmen The Dry Land (Prosthetic)
Infant Island Obsidian Wreath (Secret Voice)
Inter Arma New Heaven (Relapse)
Julie Christmas Ridiculous and Full of Blood (Red Crk)
Knocked Loose You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (Pure Noise)
Porcupine All is Vapor (New Morality Zine)
Slimelord Chytridiomycosis (20 Buck Spin)
Spectral Voice Sparagmos (Dark Descent)
Terminal Nation Echoes of the Devil’s Den (20 Buck Spin)
Thou Umbilical (Sacred Bones)
Tzompantli Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force (20 Buck Spin)
Ulcerate Cutting the Throat of God (Debemur Morti Productions)
SUMAC The Healer (Thrill Jockey)
Vemod The Deepening (Prophecy Productions)
BrooklynVegan also recently posted:
10 Best Best Punk & Hardcore Albums of 2024 So Far
10 Best Emo & Post-Hardcore Albums of 2024 So Far
Bad Omens, BRAT, Bring Me The Horizon, ERRA, Escuela Grind, Judas Priest, Kerry King, and more made Revolver’s 20 Best Albums of 2024 So Far.
Sources: BPI, BrooklynVegan, Revolver, RIAA, Spotify, Misc.