BMTH, FFDP, Bad Omens
Spotify Charts, Song Charts, First-Week Album Sales
In This Issue:
Five Finger Death Punch is No. 1 at Active Rock for a second week.
Further breaking down Bring Me The Horizon’s first-week numbers.
Linkin Park, Deftones, Metallica, and Spotify’s Weekly Top Artists. Sleep Token, Bad Omens, and this week’s Top Hard Rock Albums.
New British sales certifications for The Darkness, Ghost, Machine Gun Kelly, Skillet, and Soundgarden.
Falling In Reverse & Jelly Roll, HARDY, BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy, Bad Omens & ERRA, and this week’s Top Hard Rock Digital Songs.
First-week album sales for Black Sabbath (box set), Thou, Exodus (live), The Hope Conspiracy, Bad Omens (OST), Rhapsody Of Fire, Hellbutcher, Nestor, High Desert Queen, Rik Emmett, Candy, Darko, Reliqa, Four Stroke Baron, Lowlives, and Invent Animate, plus updates on dozens of albums.1
New Record Label Signings ✍🏻
Downset w/ New Age Records
Stick To Your Guns w/ SharpTone Records
News You Can Use 🗞️
Billboard Indie Power Players 2024
My pals Louis Posen and Ian Harrison of Hopeless Records, Better Noise CEO Dan Waite, and Dave Hansen made Billboard’s Indie Power Players 2024 List. Congratulations, one and all! - Billboard
Hopeless Records’ Top Execs on 30 Years of History, New Exhibit & the ‘Great Music & Art’ That Make Up the Indie Community
Hopeless founder/CEO Louis Posen and GM Ian Harrison look back at the label's history. - Billboard
New Luminate Indie Retail Methodology
Luminate (formerly Soundscan) stopped using its old “weighted” sales methodology for independent physical retail store sales (which basically increased sales reported by indie retailers to make up for any unreported sales) at the end of last year. (In response, Hits Daily Double teamed up with Record Store Day and Street Pulse to launch their own chart.)
Now, Luminate is applying a new methodology to independent retail physical sales in the U.S., effective May 31, 2024, via Luminate’s new partnership with StreetPulse, which increased the number of indie stores providing data to Luminate to more than 225 physical locations and 100+ online locations.
Luminate’s new method models store data for non-reporting stores with data from stores of similar types in similar markets. As more stores report data, less data will be modeled. This new methodology is different from the old “weighted” methodology, as it incorporates less modeled data as more stores report.
This will change U.S. physical sales reporting and any metric inside of Music Connect that ingests indie retail data, including Total Album sales, Total Physical Sales, LP / Vinyl sales, CD sales, and Cassette sales, all of which are eligible for the Billboard charts.
Billboard, which creates its charts based on streaming, sales, and airplay data from Luminate, announced the rebranding of its Tastemaker Albums Chart to Indie Store Album Sales.
(Click here for an FAQ on Luminate's partnership with StreetPulse.)
BRING ME THE HORIZON Breakdown
Adding to the US sales/streams and chart breakdowns last week:
BMTH’s Monthly Spotify Listeners are now at a career-high of 14.68M
Digital Only POST HUMAN: NeX GEn 70M worldwide streams first week
8/10 Singles in Spotify’s Top 10 during release week
No. 3 Spotify Top Albums first-week, No. 55 second week
The band achieved their biggest-ever streaming day on global release date and in all but one of the Top 20 markets (Indonesia being the exception, which reached a peak when the band was in market in November)
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 55 overall) ⬆
Twenty One Pilots (No. 57) ⬇
Queen (No. 70) ⬆
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 98) ⬆
AC/DC (No. 100)
Bring Me The Horizon (No. 104) ⬇
Metallica (No. 130)
Nirvana (No. 139) ⬇
Radiohead (No. 160) ⬆
Måneskin (No. 179) ⬇
Rammstein (No. 186) ⬆
System of a Down (No. 190) ⬆
Green Day (No. 193)
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 45) ⬇
Linkin Park (No. 67) ⬆
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 89) ⬆
Deftones (No. 103) ⬇
HARDY (No. 107) ⬆
Nirvana (No. 109) ⬇
Bring Me The Horizon (No. 125) ⬇
AC/DC (No. 129) ⬇
Queen (No. 131) ⬇
Fall Out Boy (No. 135) ⬆
Metallica (No. 151) ⬆
Sublime (No. 160) ⬇
Radiohead (No. 164) ⬇
System of a Down (No. 175) ⬆
Green Day (No. 179) ⬇
Sleep Token (No. 194) ⬇
Nickelback (No. 196) RE-ENTRY
Blink-182 (No. 199) RE-ENTRY
Spotify Weekly Top Albums 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Twenty One Pilots Clancy (No. 36 overall)
Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: NeX GEn (No. 55)
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (Bonus Edition) (No. 74)
Linkin Park Meteora (No. 91)
Nirvana Nevermind (Remastered) (No. 103)
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (Deluxe Edition) (No. 130)
Twenty One Pilots Blurryface (No. 135)
AC/DC Back In Black (No. 136)
Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (No. 141)
System of a Down Toxicity (No. 156)
Spotify Weekly Top Albums 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Twenty One Pilots Clancy (No. 28 overall)
Sublime Sublime (No. 69)
Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: NeX GEn (No. 71)
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (Bonus Edition) (No. 97)
Nirvana Nevermind (Remastered) (No. 98)
Weezer Weezer (No. 115)
Sleep Token Take Me Back To Eden (No. 139)
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (Deluxe Edition) (No. 142)
Linkin Park Meteora (No. 147)
System of a Down Toxicity (No. 153)
AC/DC Back In Black (No. 167)
The Killers Hot Fuss (No. 169)
Twenty One Pilots Blurryface (No. 173)
HARDY the mockingbird & THE CROW (No. 176)
Three Days Grace Life Starts Now (No. 195)
Twin Atlantic, Halestorm & I Prevail, Lamb Of God ft. Kublai Khan TX & Malevolence, Poppy, Windwaker, Apocalyptica, HammerFall, Hands Like Houses, Stick To Your Guns, Evergrey, In Hearts Wake, White Reaper ft. Spiritual Cramp, Capstan, Rancid, The Menzingers, Four Year Strong, CANDY, The Barbarians Of California, Destroy Boys, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.
Top Hard Rock Albums 🇺🇸
Linkin Park Papercuts ⬆
Queen Greatest Hits ⬆
Nickelback Best of Nickelback: Volume 1 ⬆
Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits ⬆
HARDY the mockingbird & THE CROW ⬆
Foo Fighters Greatest Hits ⬆
Bring Me The Horizon Post Human: NeX GEn ⬇
Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection
AC/DC Back in Black
Aerosmith Greatest Hits
Creed Greatest Hits ⬆
Sleep Token Take Me Back To Eden ⬇
System of a Down Toxicity
Metallica Metallica
Black Sabbath Anno Domini: 1989 - 1995 NEW
Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Led Zeppelin Mothership ⬇
3 Doors Down The Greatest Hits
Seether Vicennial: 2 Decades of Seether ⬇
Five Finger Death Punch A Decade of Destruction
Evanescence Fallen ⬇
Bad Omens Concrete Jungle [The OST] NEW
Deftones Around the Fur
ZZ Top Goin’ 50 ⬇
Three Days Grace One-X ⬇
Active Rock Top 10
Five Finger Death Punch “This is the Way” ft. DMX
NOTHING MORE “IF IT DOESN’T HURT”
Godsmack “Truth”
Billy Morrison & Ozzy Osbourne “Crack Cocaine” ft. Steve Stevens
HARDY “ROCKSTAR”
Pearl Jam “Wreckage”
From Ashes To New “Barely Breathing”
Motley Crue “Dogs of War”
Sleep Theory “Fallout”
Metallica “Screaming Suicide”
Falling In Reverse “All My Life” ft. Jelly Roll debuts at No. 28.
Hard Rock Digital Song Sales 🇺🇸
Falling In Reverse & Jelly Roll “All My Life” NEW
HARDY “Jim Bob” NEW
BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy “RATATATA”
AC/DC “Thunderstruck”
Disturbed “The Sound of Silence”
Falling In Reverse, Tech N9ne & Alex Terrible “Ronald”
HARDY “Psycho”
KISS “I Was Made For Lovin’ You”
Alice Cooper “School’s Out”
Bad Omens & ERRA “Anything > Human” NEW
BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧
THE DARKNESS
The Platinum Collection
(Warner Platinum) 2008
SILVER ALBUM
GHOST
“Mary On A Cross”
(Loma Vista) 2019
GOLD SINGLE
MACHINE GUN KELLY
Mainstream Sellout
(Bad Boy/Interscope) 2022
GOLD ALBUM
SKILLET
“Monster”
(Warner Records) 2009
GOLD SINGLE
SOUNDGARDEN
Telephantasm
(A&M) 2010
SILVER ALBUM
Album Sales 🇺🇸
Physical + Digital
Current Albums
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