Dolly Parton, Evanescence, Sadus
First-Week Album Sales, Spotify Charts, RIAA Certifications
In This Issue:
Dolly Parton’s first rock album debuts at No. 1.
Evanescence scores with Fallen 20th anniversary edition.
Thousand Foot Krutch earns their first platinum certification.
New RIAA certification for HARDY and BRIT for Linkin Park.
Linkin Park, Queen, Metallica, Måneskin, Deftones, Fall Out Boy, and this week’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) artists on Spotify.
Sadus, Dave Rude, Craig Owens, Lacey Sturm, Madness, Puddle Of Mudd, Earthside, Temic, Soledriver, Nonpoint, Texas In July, DGM, Signum Regis, Racetraitor, and more first-week album sales in the United States.1
New Signing ✍🏻
Zetra w/ Nuclear Blast Records
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 67 overall)
Queen (No. 75 overall)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 83)
Metallica (No. 139)
Måneskin (No. 140)
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 86 overall)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 115)
Deftones (No. 117)
Fall Out Boy (No. 133)
Nirvana (No. 140)
Queen (No. 145)
blink-182 (No. 154)
Metallica (No. 157)
Green Day (No. 162)
Paramore (No. 181)
New RIAA Certifications 🇺🇸
HARDY
“Sold Out”
Big Loud Records (2022)
GOLD SINGLE
THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH
“Courtesy Call”
EMG/The Fuel Music (2012)
PLATINUM SINGLE
New BRIT Certification 🇬🇧
LINKIN PARK
“A Place for My Head”
Warner Records (2000)
SILVER SINGLE
Album Sales 🇺🇸
CD, LP, Paid Digital
Dolly Parton initially turned down her Rock Hall of Fame induction. She eventually accepted, but decided she’d better make a rock n’ roll album.
Rockstar features covers of songs made famous by The Beatles, The Police, Prince, Journey, and Heart, among others, with multiple collaborators, including Rob Halford, Nikki Sixx, Steven Tyler, and more from the rock world.
Rockstar debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, her highest-charting ever, and her first No. 1 on the Album Sales chart, which began 32 years ago.
The album did 118,500 in pure album sales and 128,000 in total activity. That breaks down to 78,000 CDs, 18,000 vinyl LPs, 22,000 paid digital downloads, 9500 in streaming-equivalent albums, and a negligible amount of cassettes.
Evanescence, meanwhile, got a boost from the 20th anniversary edition of their debut album. Fallen did 15,000 in total activity this week. 10,500 of those were album sales, for an all-time US sales total of 8.2 million. 6400 copies of Fallen were sold on vinyl this week, bringing the album’s vinyl tally to 90,000.
The rest of this week’s first-week debuts and weekly totals are as follows:
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