In This Issue:
blink-182 tops this week’s Billboard 200.
Rival Sons, Knuckle Puck, Lynch Mob, Myrkur, Chris Shiflett, Duff McKagan, Cirith Ungol, Boys Like Girls, Go Ahead And Die, Catch Your Breath, Afterbirth, Angelus, Apatrida, A Foreign Affair, and more first-week album sales.
Year-to-date catalog albums and vinyl sales for Pink Floyd, Queen, Metallica, AC/DC, Paramore, Nirvana, Fall Out Boy, Alice In Chains, and more.
The Top Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) artists on Spotify.
DragonForce, Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills, Bring Me The Horizon, Spiritbox, Poppy, Metallica, Bad Omens, I Prevail, and this week’s Top 50 Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube in the United States.
Guns N’ Roses recent attendance.1
Recent Signings ✍🏻
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Ingrown w/ Closed Casket Activities
Lifesick & Gost w/ Metal Blade Records
Pertinence w/ FATA
Rebuke w/ UTA
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Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
blink-182 is the biggest gainer on Top Artists Global, up 105 spots at #70.
Linkin Park (No. 65 overall)
Blink-182 (No. 70 overall)
Queen (No. 78)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 113)
Metallica (No. 134)
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
blink-182 is the biggest gainer on Top Artists USA, up 91 spots at #36.
Blink-182 (No. 36 overall)
Jelly Roll (No. 81 overall)
Linkin Park (No. 82)
Deftones (No. 101)
Fall Out Boy (No. 113)
Nirvana (No. 116)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 132)
Green Day (No. 138)
Metallica (No. 141)
Queen (No. 142)
Paramore (No. 155)
HARDY (No. 159)
Panic! At The Disco (No. 186)
AC/DC (No. 191)
System Of A Down (No. 194)
Top 50 Hard Rock & Metal Music Videos 🇺🇸
This week's ranking of the most popular Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube. (Bad Omens “Just Pretend” appears three times because one is the official music video, one is a lyric video, and the other is just the audio.)
Bad Omens “Just Pretend”
Linkin Park “Lost”
Sleep Token “The Summoning”
DragonForce “Power of the Triforce”
Five Finger Death Punch “The End”
Ice Nine Kills “Meat & Greet”
Sleep Token “Take Me Back To Eden”
Motionless In White “Sign Of Life”
Sleep Token “Alkaline”
Miracle Of Sound “Whatever Comes Our Way”
Bad Omens “Just Pretend”
Daughtry “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” ft. Lzzy Hale
Motionless In White “Werewolf”
Bring Me The Horizon “DArkSide”
Spiritbox “Jaded”
Linkin Park “Burn It Down”
State Of Mine “In the Air Tonight”
Motionless In White “Voices”
Lyric Noel “This is Halloween”
Miracle Of Sound “Valhalla Calling” ft. Peyton Parrish
Poppy “Hard”
Spiritbox “Cellar Door”
Ghost “Mary On A Cross (Live in Tampa 2022)”
Sleep Token “Chokehold”
Metallica “One (Live)”
Electric Callboy “Tekkno Train”
Linkin Park “Fighting Myself”
Zakk Wylde “Lost Prayer”
Bad Omens “The Grey”
Bad Omens “Just Pretend”
Electric Callboy “Everytime We Touch (TEKKNO Version)”
Charles Beethoud “If CHOPY SUEY Was The HARDEST Song In The World”
Bring Me The Horizon & CORPSE “CODE MISTAKE”
Bad Omens “THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND”
Five Finger Death Punch “Welcome to the Circus”
In This Moment “THE PURGE”
I Prevail “There’s Fear in Letting Go”
Electric Callboy “Pump It (Live 2022)”
Linkin Park “Castle of Glass”
Apocalyptica “I Don’t Care” ft. Adam Gontier
Avenged Sevenfold “Nobody”
Electric Callboy “Hypa Hypa”
Linkin Park “From the Inside”
Black Sabbath “Paranoid”
No Resolve & Hinder “UNSTOPPABLE”
Bad Omens “CONCRETE JUNGLE”
Pierce The Veil “Bulls in the Bronx”
Metallica “King Nothing”
Motley Crue “Kickstart My Heart”
Kim Dracula “Drown”
Blink-182 Top Billboard 200
Blink-182 scores their third No. 1 album. One More Time earned 125,000 equivalent album units in its first week, debuting atop the Billboard 200.
The first Blink studio album to feature Tom DeLonge since 2011, One MoreTime was available in 11 vinyl variants which combined sold 49,000 copies.
Standard CDs, cassettes, a deluxe CD box set, and paid digital downloads comprised the rest of One More Time’s 101,000 album sales.
Streaming Equivalent Albums were 23,000 (from 30.1M on-demand streams) and Track Equivalent Albums made up 1,000.
Blink-182 previously hit No. 1 with Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001) and California (2016), which featured Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba standing in for DeLonge.
BLINK-182
21.2M Monthly Spotify Listeners
9.9M Facebook Followers
7.8M Spotify Followers
3.1M Instagram Followers
3.06M YouTube Channels Subscribers
2.24M Monthly Pandora Listeners
1.6M Twitter/X Followers
788k TikTok Followers
8.4M Instagram Followers (Travis)
1.5M Instagram Followers (Mark)
1.3M Instagram Followers (Tom)
First-Week Sales
101,000 / 125,000* - One More Time (2023)
77,000 / 94,000* - Nine (2019)
172,000 / 186,000* - California (2016)
151,000 - Neighborhoods (2011)
313,000 - Blink-182 (2003)
350,000 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001)
109,000 - Enema of the State (1999)
*Total Activity
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Albums Sales 🇺🇸
CD, LP, Paid Digital
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