Full Of Hell, Drain, Judas Priest

First Week Album Sales, Spotify, YouTube Charts...

Cayle Sain (Twitching Tongues, Ghostemane), R.I.P. 📸: Cayle’s Instagram

In This Issue:

Linkin Park, Deftones, Fall Out Boy, Metallica, Paramore, Nirvana, and this week’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) artists on Spotify.

Judas Priest, Sleep Token, Architects, Small Town Titans, Bruce Dickinson, Spiritbox, In This Moment, Orbit Culture, and this week’s Top 50 Hard Rock and Metal music videos on YouTube in the United States.

Kerrang!’s 50 Best Albums and Revolver’s 10 Best Hardcore Albums of 2023.

Full Of Hell & Nothing, Health, Cobra Spell, Code Seven, Unprocessed, Plini (EP), and Within Destruction (EP) first-week album sales, plus updates on dozens of Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) album sales in the United States.¹

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Congrats to Justin Louden at Closed Casket Activities and the bands Full Of Hell and Nothing, whose collaborative record, When No Birds Sang, is the No. 1 Current Hard Rock and Metal Album in the United States this week.

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New Signings ✍🏻

• Daniel McCartney (Point North, Jeris Johnson, Mod Sun) joins 33 & West 

• John Pantle (ex-Sound Talent Group) joins One Fiinix Live 

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Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎 

Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) 

1. Linkin Park (No. 65 overall) 

2. Queen (No. 71) 

3. Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 101) 

4. Metallica (No. 147) 

5. Nirvana (No. 163) 

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Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸

Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) 

1. Linkin Park (No. 86 overall) 

2. Deftones (No. 110) 

3. Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 135) 

4. Fall Out Boy (No. 141) 

5. Nirvana (No. 143) 

6. Metallica (No. 161) 

7. Green Day (No. 162) 

8. Queen (No. 163) 

9. Paramore (No. 176) 

10. Blink-182 (No. 184) 

11. System Of A Down (No. 199) 

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Top 50 Hard Rock & Metal Music Videos 🇺🇸

This week’s ranking according to YouTube 

1. Disturbed “Down with the Sickness” 204M views 

2. Bad Omens “Just Pretend” (Music Video) 12M 

3. Judas Priest “Trial By Fire” 1.1M 

4. Linkin Park “Lost” 72M 

5. Sleep Token “The Summoning” 13M 

6. Architects “Seeing Red” 755k 

7. Small Town Titans “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” 9.1M 

8. Sleep Token “Take Me Back To Eden” 6.6M 

9. Tim Henson, Unprocessed, Scott LePage “Die on the Cross of the Martyr” 369k

10. Bruce Dickinson “Afterglow of Ragnarok” 628k 

11. Sleep Token “Alkaline” 8.8M 

12. Motionless In White “Sign of Life” 3.2M 

13. Fabvl “NANAMI SONG ’The End’” 185k 

14. Bad Omens “Just Pretend” (Lyric) 5.5M 

15. Spiritbox “Jaded” 3.9M 

16. Daughtry “Separate Ways (World Apart)” ft. Lzzy Hale 7M 

17. Miracle Of Sound “Valhalla Calling” ft. Peyton Parrish 41M 

18. Leo Moracchioli “Feliz Navidad” 222k 

19. Motley Crue “Kickstart My Heart” 33M 

20. Bad Omens “THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND” 2.1M 

21. Godsmack “Whatever” 17M 

22. Deftones “My Own Summer (Shove It)” 40M 

23. Sleep Token “Chokehold” 5.6M 

24. Powerman 5000 “Worlds Collide” 37M 

25. Linkin Park “Fighting Myself” 17M 

26. Electric Callboy “Tekkno Train” 10M 

27. Peyton Parrish “Fallen Angel” 180k 

28. Electric Callboy “Everytime We Touch (TEKKNO Version)” 8.2M 

29. Static-X “Push It” 28M 

30. Sleep Theory “Fallout” 274k 

31. Halocene “Oops!… I Did It Again” 171k 

32. Lyric Noel “Carol of the Bells (Metal Version)” 844k 

33. Five Finger Death Punch “The End” 954k 

34. Savage Ga$p, Grim Salvo, KAMAARA “in your darkest nightmares, you’ll see me” 146k 

35. Black Sabbath “Paranoid” (Audio) 2.5M 

36. Peyton Parrish “Poetry Glass” 552k 

37. Deftones “Passenger” ft. Maynard James Keenan 11M 

38. From Ashes To New “Monster in Me” 1.1M 

39. Aviators “Metal Won’t Burn” 120k 

40. Bring Me The Horizon & CORPSE “CODE MISTAKE” 3.7M 

41. The Longest Johns “Hammer and the Anvil” 482k 

42. In This Moment “THE PURGE” 2.7M 

43. Bring Me The Horizon “DArkSide” 3M 

44. Electric Callboy “Pump It (Live 2022)” 25M 

45. Jonathan Young “Northwest Passage” 92k 

46. Orbit Culture “While We Serve” 186k 

47. Iron Maiden “Run to the Hills” 58M 

48. Avenged Sevenfold “Nobody” 7.6M 

49. Magnolia Park, Ethan Ross, Plvtinum “Animal” 766k 

50. Rammstein “Some” 232M 

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Kerrang! 

50 Best Albums of 2023 

1. Foo Fighters But Here We Are

2. Creeper Sanguivore 

3. Sleep Token Take Me Back To Eden 

4. Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self Destruction 

5. Pupil Slicer Blossom 

6. Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But A Dream… 

7. Metallica 72 Seasons 

8. Jesus Piece …So Unknown 

9. Hot Milk A Call to the Void 

10. Green Lung This Heathen Land 

11. Enter Shikari A Kiss for the Whole World 

12. Svalbard The Weight of the Mask 

13. Baroness Stone 

14. Skindred Smile 

15. Militarie Gun Life Under the Gun 

16. Blink-182 ONE MORE TIME… 

17. Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust

18. Paramore This Is Why 

19. Drain Living Proof 

20. Code Orange The Above 

21. Dying Wish Symptoms Of Survival 

22. Empire State Bastard Rivers of Heresy 

23. Ville Vallo Neon Noir 

24. Zulu A New Tomorrow 

25. Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Son 

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Revolver Magazine 

10 Best Hardcore Albums of 2023 

1. Drain Living Proof 

2. Scowl Psychic Dance Routine 

3. Jesus Piece …So Unknown 

4. Pain Of Truth Not Through Blood 

5. Never Ending Game Outcry 

6. Zulu A New Tomorrow 

7. GEL Only Constant 

8. Incendiary Change the Way You Think About Pain 

9. Anklebiter To Live and Withstand 

10. Balmoral With Thorns of Glass and Petals of Grief

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From Pollstar

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Album Sales 🇺🇸

CD, LP, Paid Digital