Rolling Stone’s numbers have already grown exponentially since yesterday:
GOJIRA, Fortitude
17.8k Album Units, 13.3k Album Sales
900 Song Sales, 3M Song Streams Streams
Royal Blood, Typhoons
8.2k Album Units, 5.3k Album Sales
1.2k Song Sales, 2.3M Song Streams
AC/DC, Back in Black
7.2k Album Units, 665 Album Sales
2.7k Song Sales, 7.8M Song Streams
Manchester Orchestra, The Million Masks of God
7k Album Units, 3.8k Album Sales
888 Song Sales, 2.4M Song Streams
Pink Floyd, Live at Knebworth 1990
6.5k Album Units, 5.4k Album Sales
An explanation well worth reading:
My aim is always to provide you with the best information from the most diverse range of legitimate sources possible. Accordingly, I’m regularly integrating new data into Stream N’ Destroy, evolving with new tools and metrics to better aggregate for you.
I understand the confusion when “totals” for anticipated records in our scene, like Gojira and Royal Blood, show up on a WED as opposed to a MON/TUE. Those are ongoing calculations in the middle of the week, not final. The final numbers will appear MON/TUE, as they have since I began this adventure with all of you.
We’re accustomed to Music Connect (the descendant of Nielsen Soundscan) charts and weekly sales figures arriving on Monday/Tuesday. As Stream N’ Destroy readers may/may not know, Rolling Stone entered the game in recent years with their new “Beta” charts, including their Artists 500 and Top 200 Albums. While not “official,” these numbers tend to line up pretty evenly with traditional counts. One big distinction is that they are collecting and releasing data much earlier in the process, with initial numbers available midweek.
Given the interest we all have in some of these bigger records from the bands we love (and we ALL love Gojira, right?), I thought it’d be fun to do some closer tracking as we get up to the Monday reveal. In the future, I’ll make sure that’s more clear.
Here’s what Rolling Stone says about their metholdolgy:
“The Rolling Stone Charts publish song and album data, compiled from dozens of U.S. retailers and service producers, on a daily basis. Because of the breadth of suppliers and their individual reporting time frames, chart data for the week as a whole should not be considered finalized until the following Monday, when Rolling Stone will announce the official week tallies. Our independent analytics firm, Alpha Data, formerly known as BuzzAngle Music, populates numbers each day into the RS Charts within a seven-hour processing period of each day's transactions, with a target availability in the system of 12 PM Eastern Time.”
Speaking of Rolling Stone’s Alpha Data (formerly BuzzAngle), HITS reguarly publishes various charts from them, broken down by genre (and very confusingly, in my opinion. One Metallica record is “mainstream rock,” another is “hard rock/metal”…) Gojira is No. 11 on their overall albums chart at the moment. Here are some genre breakdowns:
ALPHA DATA TOP ALBUMS
United States Album Chart
PRESENTED BY HITS
Hard Rock/Metal
April 30 - May 4
Gojira, Fortitude
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Greatest Hits
Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade of Destruction, Vol. 2
Five Finger Death Punch, American Capitalist
Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Linkin Park, Minutes to Midnight
Alice In Chains, Live
Disturbed, Disturbed: Live at Red Rocks
Metallica, Ride the Lightning
Three Days Grace, Life Starts Now
Alice In Chains, Dirt
Kiss, Kiss
Nickelback, All the Right Reasons
Audioslave, Audioslave
Mötley Crüe, Dr. Feelgood
I Prevail, Trauma
Breaking Benjamin, Phobia
Metallica, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct
Rage Against The Machine, Rage Against The Machine
Slipknot, Day of the Gusano
Disturbed, Asylum
Disturbed, Evolution
Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz
Five Finger Death Punch, F8
Bob Seger, Night Moves
Breaking Benjamin, Dear Agony
Three Days Grace, Three Days Grace
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rob Zombie, Hellbilly Deluxe
Metallica, …And Justice for All
Incubus, Make Yourself
Bring Me The Horizon, POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR
Blue Öyster Cult, Singles Collection
System Of A Down, Hypnotize
Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti
Slipknot, Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Bring Me The Horizon, Sempiternal
Tool, Ænima
Seether, Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces
Avenged Sevenfold, Hail to the King
ALPHA DATA TOP ALBUMS
United States Album Chart
PRESENTED BY HITS
Mainstream Rock
April 30 - May 4
Justin Bieber, Justice
Billie Eilish, When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Eagles, Eagles
Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Taylor Swift, Evermore
Summer Walker, Over It
Maroon 5, Red Pill Blues
Billie Eilish, Don’t Smile At Me
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
AC/DC, Back in Black
Taylor Swift, 1989
Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction
Manchester Orchestra, The Million Masks of God
girl in red, If I Could Make It Go Quiet
AJR, OK Orchestra
Pink Floyd, Live at Knebworth 1990
Halsey, Manic
Imagine Dragons, Evolve
Fall Out Boy, Take This to Your Grave
Julia Michaels, Not in Chronological Order
The Beatles, Abbey Road
Various Artists, The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Itzy, Itzy [Guess Who] Album
Nirvana, Nevermind
Harry Styles, Harry Styles
My Chemical Romance, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory
Justin Bieber, Changes
Metallica, Metallica
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Legend
Tate McRae, Too Young to Be Sad - EP
Taylor Swift, Red
Katy Perry, Teenage Dream
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
Bee Gees, Greatest
Adele, 25
Benny Blanco, Friends Keep Secrets 2
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd
Greta Van Fleet, The Battle at Garden’s Gate
Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet
Meanwhile, in the UK, NME reports (via Official Charts) that Royal Blood is outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined. It will be Royal Blood’s third consecutive No. 1 in the United Kingdom. At No. 6, Gojira should have their first Top 10 album.
Manchester Orchestra is project at No. 40, Dropkick Murphys No. 64.
New RIAA Certifications🏆
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
“Hail to the King” (2013) 2x PLATINUM
“Shepherd of Fire” (2013) PLATINUM
“Nightmare” (2010) PLATINUM
Avenged Sevenfold (2007) PLATINUM
“Almost Easy” (2007) PLATINUM
“Bat Country” (2005) PLATINUM
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
“Stressed Out” (2015) 10x PLATINUM
Your feedback and questions are welcome. Thanks, as always, for reading.