Detailed Album Breakdowns: MGK, Foo Fighters, GN'R and more hard rock/metal big-sellers
Plus the week's Most Streamed Hard Rock Artists & New YouTube videos
This Week’s Biggest Albums
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk
Feb 5, 2021 - Feb 11, 2021
Foo Fighters
Medicine at Midnight (2021)
45.3k Album Units, 36k Album Sales
1500 Song Sales, 3.1M Song Streams
Machine Gun Kelly
Tickets to My Downfall (2020)
12.7k Album Units, 1500 Album Sales
4200 Song Sales, 13.9M Song Streams
Queen
Queen (1973)
10k Album Units, 49 Album Sales
9400 Song Sales, 11.6M Song Streams
Certified GOLD in 1977
Miley Cyrus
Plastic Hearts (2020)
8600 Album Units, 666 Album Sales
2800 Song Sales, 9.7M Song Streams
Guns N’ Roses
Appetite for Destruction (1987)
4700 Album Units, 392 Album Sales
2500 Song Sales, 4.9M Song Streams
Certified 18x PLATINUM in 2008
AC/DC
Back in Black (1980)
4400 Album Units, 425 Album Sales
2000 Song Sales, 4.7M Song Streams
Certified 25x PLATINUM in 2019
Nirvana
Nevermind (1991)
3600 Album Units, 572 Album Sales
769 Song Sales, 3.4M Song Streams
Certified 10x PLATINUM in 1999
My Chemical Romance
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)
3500 Album Units, 200 Album Sales
574 Song Sales, 4.2M Song Streams
Certified 3x PLATINUM in 2017
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits (2003)
3300 Album Units, 172 Album Sales
743 Song Sales, 3.8M Song Streams
Certified 2x PLATINUM in 2012
twenty one pilots
Blurryface (2015)
3300 Album Units, 170 Album Sales
451 Song Sales, 4.1M Song Streams
Certified 4x PLATINUM in 2019
Metallica
Metallica (1991)
3000 Album Units, 498 Album Sales
1600 Song Sales, 2.8M Son Streams
Certified 16x PLATINUM in 2012
Weezer
Weezer (The Blue Album) (1994)
3000 Album Units, 457 Album Sales
715 Song Sales, 2.87M Song Streams
Certified 3x PLATINUM in 1998
Linkin Park
Hybrid Theory (2000)
2900 Album Units, 227 Album Sales
743 Song Sales, 3.3M Song Streams
Certified 12x PLATINUM in 2020
(Source: Rolling Stone & RIAA)
Top 50 Most Streamed
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk
By Total Songs Streamed
Feb 5 2021 - Feb 11 2021
Morgan Wallen was the most streamed artist this week, with 92.3M total song streams, as well as the reigning champ atop the Billboard 200 for a third week in a row. The Weeknd was a distant second, with 61M total song streams. Taylor Swift and Drake were third and fourth, respectively, with roughly 54M total song streams each.
Queen 12.1M ↓ (No. 69 overall)
Foo Fighters 9.9M ⇧ (No. 86)
Panic! At The Disco 9.9M
AC/DC 9.8M ↓
twenty one pilots 9.6M ↓
Linkin Park 9M ↓
Metallica 8.3M ↓
Red Hot Chili Peppers 8.1M ↓
Fall Out Boy 8M ⇧
Nirvana 7.9M ↓
Led Zeppelin 7.8M ↓
Pink Floyd 7.6M ⇧
Green Day 7.5M ⇧
Five Finger Death Punch 7M ↓
5 Seconds Of Summer 6.4M
Weezer 6.4M ↓
Paramore 6.3M ⇧
Blink-182 6M ⇧
Guns N’ Roses 5.7M ↓
All Time Low 5.7M ↓
Bring Me The Horizon 5.7M ↓
My Chemical Romance 5.5M ⇧
Three Days Grace 5.4M ↓
Shinedown 5.1M ↓
Disturbed 4.8M ↓
Slipknot 4.8M ↓
Aerosmith 4.8M ↓
Van Halen 4.8M ↓
Sublime 4.5M ↓
System Of A Down 4.4M ↓
Breaking Benjamin 4.4M ↓
Pearl Jam 4.1M ↓
Bon Jovi 4M ↓
Avenged Sevenfold 3.9M ↓
Nickelback 3.8M ↓
Skillet 3.8M ↓
Korn 3.8M ↓
A Day To Remember 3.6M ↓
Hayley Williams 3.6M NEW
Mötley Crüe 3.6M ↓
Tool 3.5M ↓
Alice In Chains 3.5M ↓
Falling In Reverse 3.4M ↓
Def Leppard 3.3M ↓
Hollywood Undead 3.2M ↓
Ozzy Osbourne 3M ↓
Seether 2.9M ↓
Godsmack 2.9M ↓
3 Doors Down 2.9M ↓
Smashing Pumpkins 2.8M ↓
Source: Rolling Stone
New YouTube Videos
System Of A Down “Genocidal Humanoidz” 1.8M views
The Pretty Reckless “And So It Went” 685k
Serj Tankian “Elasticity” 644k
Royal Blood “Typhoons” 637k
Foo Fighters “Making a Fire” 534k
Rob Zombie “The Eternal Struggle of the Howling Man” 490k
Foo Fighters “No Son of Mine” 433k
Lamb Of God “Ghost Shaped People” 260k
Alice Cooper “Social Debris” 197k
Amorphis “Brother and Sister” 142k
Brand Of Sacrifice “Animal” 122k
Korpiklaani “Tuuleton” 113k
Evergrey “Where August Mourns” 93k
Orden Ogan “Inferno” 93k
Bonfire “American Nights” 90k
MSG “In Search of the Pace of Mind” 86k
Twiztid “Corkscrew” 84k
Vola “Straight Lines” 78k
Every Time I Die “AWOL” 75k
Evile “Hell Unleashed” 69k
Thousand Below “Gone to Me” 57k
Extremely thankful to see this happen, by the way! Consistently making a No. 1 appearance in the Musicians & Composers Memoir section on Amazon.