Guns N' Roses, Blink-182, Paramore
Active Rock Radio, UK Album Charts, YouTube Chart, Spotify Billions Club
In This Issue:
Bring Me The Horizon, Spiritbox, Wind Rose, Architects, Static-X, Electric Callboy, Coheed And Cambria, Plini & Kiko Loureiro, and this week’s Top 50 Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube in the United States.
Paramore, Sleep Token, Steven Wilson, Metallica, Queens Of The Stone Age, and this week’s Top Rock & Metal albums in the UK.
Staind, Shinedown, Green Day, Mammoth WVH, Avenged Sevenfold, Des Rocs, Point North, and this week’s Active Rock Radio Top 30 in the US.
New Hard Rock, Metal & Punk(ish) additions to the Spotify BILLIONS CLUB, including songs from AC/DC, blink-182, and Guns N’ Roses.
News you can use about rock music consumption last year.1
Agency Signings ✍🏻
Ace Frehley w/ Big Time Entertainment
All Shall Perish w/ TKO
No Cure w/ Sound Talent Group
Truth Club w/ PlayBook Artists
Bex Westlake joined One Fiinix Live, bringing a roster that includes Hoobastank, Manchester Orchestra, Halestorm, Dance Gavin Dance, Lilith Czar, MOTHICA, Dorothy, Black Stone Cherry, Des Rocs, Conquer Divide, Amigo The Devil, New Years Day, Between You & Me, Tiny Moving Parts, and GWAR.
Label Signings ✍🏻
Doomcrusher w/ Arising Empire
Escalate w/ New Age Records
Orbit Culture w/ Century Media Records
Worst Doubt w/ DAZE
Management Signings ✍🏻
The Gaslight Anthem w/ Crush Music
News You Can Use 📰
U.S. Music Consumption Saw Double-Digit Growth in 2023 as Streaming Surged, Sales Rebounded.
One of every 15 vinyl albums sold in the U.S. last year was by Taylor Swift.
Swift and Morgan Wallen together constituted 2.49% of overall music consumption in 2023, according to new data from Luminate.
Rock music accounted for 41.47% of all album sales and 42.36% of physical sales last year. Those numbers are bigger than the next four genres (R&B/hip-hop, pop, country, and World music) combined. Rock catalog (music older than 18 months) sales were 30.8M units, more than pop and R&B/hip-hop combined.
Correction: on yesterday’s podcast, I misspoke when I said Linkin Park had “100M monthly listeners.” I meant total listeners in 2023, not monthly.
Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart 🇬 🇬🇧
Paramore Paramore
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Nirvana Nirvana (Best Of)
Metallica Master of Puppets
Nirvana Nevermind
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
Green Day American Idiot
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Motörhead Everything Louder Forever (Best Of)
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Deftones Around the Fur
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal
Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion I
Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex
Evanescence Fallen
Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion II
Green Day Dookie
Nirvana In Utero
Jethro Tull Minstrel in the Gallery
Pink Floyd The Wall
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Nirvana Unplugged in New York
Metallica 72 Seasons
AC/DC Back in Black
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Alice Cooper Road
Blink-182 ONE MORE TIME…
Foo Fighters But Here We Are
Paramore Riot
Måneskin RUSH
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Royal Blood Back to the Water Below
Pink Floyd Animals
Linkin Park Meteora
Queens Of The Stone Age In Times New Roman
Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits
Active Rock Radio 🇺🇸
Staind “Here And Now”
Shinedown “A Symptom Of Being Human”
Green Day “The American Dream is Killing Me”
Daughtry “Artificial”
Mammoth WVH “I’m Alright”
Tim Montana “Devil You Know”
Bad Wolves “Legends Never Die”
Blink-182 “One More Time…”
Papa Roach “Leave A Light On”
Sleep Theory “Numb”
Mike Shinoda “Already Over”
Disturbed “Don’t Tell Me” ft. Ann Wilson
Motionless In White “Sign Of Life”
Fozzy “Spotlight”
Atreyu “Gone”
Avenged Sevenfold “Mattel”
Scott Stapp “Higher Power”
Bush “Nowhere To Go But Everywhere”
The Struts “Too Good At Raising Hell”
Des Rocs “I Am The Lightning”
Austin Meade “BLACKOUT”
Nickelback “Skinny Little Missy”
Dead Poet Society “Running In Circles”
Point North “Below The Belt” ft. Point North
Foo Fighters “The Glass”
Blind Channel “Dead Zone”
Corey Taylor “We Are The Rest”
Oxymorons “Look Alive” ft. Netic
Any Given Sin “Dynamite”
I Prevail “Closure”
Spotify BILLIONS CLUB
New additions to the Spotify 1B+ Club:
AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long”
blink-182 “All The Small Things”
Guns N’ Roses “Paradise City”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Snow (Hey Oh)”
They join the following Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) songs with over 1B streams on Spotify:
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” 2.3B
Queen “Don’t Stop Me Now” 1.8B
Queen “Another One Bites the Dust” 1.7B
Queen, David Bowie “Under Pressure” 1.4B
Twenty One Pilots “Stressed Out” 2.1B
Twenty One Pilots “Heathens” 1.6B
Twenty One Pilots “Ride” 1.6B
The Killers “Mr. Brightside” 1.9B
Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” 1.8B
Linkin Park “In the End” 1.8B
Linkin Park “Numb” 1.5B
Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” 1.7B
Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” 1.7B
Guns N’ Roses “Welcome To The Jungle” 1B
Panic! At The Disco “High Hopes” 1.5B
Måneskin “Beggin’” 1.4B
Radiohead “Creep” 1.4B
AC/DC “Back In Black” 1.4B
AC/DC “Highway to Hell” 1.4B
AC/DC “Thunderstruck” 1.4B
Bon Jovi “Livin’ On A Prayer” 1.4B
Metallica “Enter Sandman” 1.2B
Metallica “Nothing Else Matters” 1B
System Of A Down “Chop Suey!” 1.2B
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge” 1.2B
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Californication” 1.2B
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Can’t Stop” 1B
Fall Out Boy “Centuries” 1.1B
Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” 1.1B
The Cranberries “Zombie” 1B
Papa Roach “Last Resort” 1B
Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah”
Aerosmith “Dream On” 1B
Foo Fighters “Everlong” 1B
Evanescence “Bring Me To Life” is at 993M.
Speak N’ Destroy Ep. 128
Comedian and actor Jonah Ray (Mystery Science Theater 3000, Comedy Central's The Meltdown, The Nerdist) stars in Destroy All Neighbors, a splatter/horror comedy about a frustrated musician trying to finish his prog-rock epic. Jonah talks about getting into punk and metal in Hawaii, playing music, Weird Al, standup comedy, and, of course, Metallica. LISTEN HERE.
Top 50 Hard Rock & Metal Music Videos 🇺🇸
This week’s ranking of the most popular Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube.
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