Gojira, Knocked Loose, Spiritbox
GRAMMY Nominations, Spotify Charts, BRIT Certifications
In This Issue:
Gojira, Knocked Loose (ft. Poppy), Spiritbox, Alpha Wolf, Green Day, Idles, Judas Priest, Metallica, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Spiritbox, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and Cage The Elephant are among the 2025 GRAMMY Award nominees.
The Cure enters Spotify’s Weekly Top Artists 200 for the first time.
Guns N’ Roses adds another song to Spotify’s BILLIONS CLUB.
Sleep Token adds another to Stream N’ Destory’s 100M Rock Club.
Ice Nine Kills and Breaking Benjamin move up Spotify’s Viral 50 - USA.
The Funeral Portrait hits No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay with “Suffocate City” featuring Spencer Charnas.
Fall Out Boy and Deep Purple earn new BRIT sales awards.
Linkin Park, Deftones, Panic! At The Disco, AC/DC, and this week’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) artists on Spotify.1
Agency Signing ✍🏻
FEVER 333 w/ 33 & West
Record Label Signings ✍🏻
Comastatic w/ Hopeless Records
S8NT ELEKTRIC w/ Long Branch Records
2025 GRAMMY Nominations
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Best Rock Performance
The Beatles “Now and Then”
The Black Keys “Beautiful People (Stay High)”
Green Day “The American Dream is Killing Me”
Idles “Gift Horse”
Pearl Jam “Dark Matter”
St. Vincent “Broken Man”
Best Metal Performance
Gojira, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)”
Judas Priest “Crown of Horns”
Knocked Losoe ft. Poppy “Suffocate”
Metallica “Screaming Suicide”
Spiritbox “Cellar Door”
Best Rock Album
The Black Crowes Happiness Bastards
Fontaines D.C. Romance
Green Day Saviors
Idles TANGK
Pearl Jam Dark Matter
The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds
Jack White No Name
Best Rock Song
The Black Keys “Beautiful People (Stay High)”
St. Vincent “Broken Man”
Pearl Jam “Dark Matter”
Green Day “Dilemma”
Idles “Gift Horse”
Best Alternative Music Performance
Cage The Elephant “Neon Pill”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Song of the Lake”
Fontaines D.C. “Starburster”
Kim Gordon “Bye Bye”
St. Vincent “Flea”
Best Alternative Music Album
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Wild God
Clairo Charm
Kim Gordon The Collective
Brittany Howard What Now
St. Vincent All Born Screaming
Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package
Alpha Wolf Half Living Things (Patrick Galvin, Art Director)
Nirvana In Utero (Doug Cunningham & Jason Noto, Art Directors)
DIETH, Twiztid, SPY, State Champs, Paleface Swiss, Make Them Suffer, Counterparts, All That Remains, Impending Doom, STARSET, The Plot In You, Until I Wake, Sol Invicto, Butcher Babies, See You Next Tuesday, The Browning, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.
Guns N’ Roses “November Rain” (1991) joins Spotify’s BILLIONS CLUB.
Spotify Viral 50 - USA 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
No. 26 Ice Nine Kills ft. Shavo “A Work of Art”
No. 37 Breaking Benjamin “Awaken”
100M Rock Club
New Addition
Sleep Token “Granite” (2023)
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 20 overall)
Queen (No. 93)
Radiohead (No. 112)
Chase Atlantic (No. 116)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 118)
Metallica (No. 136)
Nirvana (No. 140)
AC/DC (No. 149)
Green Day (No. 155)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 161)
System Of A Down (No. 173)
The Cure (No. 195) NEW
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 47 overall)
Jelly Roll (No. 53)
Deftones (No. 101)
Radiohead (No. 110)
Nirvana (No. 117)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 126)
Green Day (No. 127)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 130)
Chase Atlantic (No. 134)
Fall Out Boy (No. 145)
Metallica (No. 146)
System Of A Down (No. 157)
Queen (No. 167)
Paramore (No. 169)
Nickelback (No. 179)
AC/DC (No. 185)
mgk (No. 187)
Slipknot (No. 189)
Panic! At The Disco (No. 194)
BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧
DEEP PURPLE
30 - Very Best Of
(Parlophone) 1998
SILVER ALBUM
FALL OUT BOY
“Thnks Fr Th Mmrs”
(Island) 2007
2x PLATINUM SINGLE
The Funeral Portrait hits No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay with “Suffocate City” featuring Spencer Charnas. On top of its radio airplay, “Suffocate City” drew 156k official U.S. streams this week, according to Billboard. The song appears on the band’s first album for Better Noise Music, Greetings from Suffocate City, which has moved 12k equivalent album units since it dropped September 13.
The Funeral Portrait is represented by managers George Vlahakis and Dave Bethel, attorney Eric German, and booking agent Justin Hirschman.
Sources: BPI, Billboard, RIAA, ROSTR, Spotify, Misc.