KISS, Asking Alexandria, Tomb Mold
Record Store Day, Album of the Year Lists, RIAA, BRIT, Attendance
In This Issue:
Linkin Park, Turnstile, and the Top Selling Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) Black Friday Record Store Day releases at indie retailers in the US.
Foo Fighters and Plain White T’s join the Spotify Billions Club.
Two new RIAA certifications for Asking Alexandria.
New Andrew WK, Paramore, and Velvet Revolver British sales awards.
Album of the Year lists from Metal Hammer, Metal Injection, The Quietus, and RIFF, with even more Tomb Mold, Metallica, and Avenged Sevenfold.
Recent attendance around the world for KISS; Måneskin; The Prodigy; Danzig, Suicidal Tendencies, Behemoth; Bullet For My Valentine, Of Mice & Men, Vended; Dirty Honey; Magnolia Park; Municipal Waste, and more.1
Recent Signings ✍🏻
Aether Realm w/ Echelon Talent Agency
Defeated Sanity w/ Season Of Mist
DIAMANTE w/ UTA
Get The Shot w/ TKO
Ghost Atlas w/ UNFD
The Inevitables w/ Bad Time Records
PARALINE w/ Eclipse Records
Sugar Horse w/ Pelagic Records
Without Peace w/ WAR Records
News You Can Use 📰
Spotify Stock (SPOT) Jumps 7.5% Following Mass Lay-Offs
Spotify CFO Paul Vogel Cashes in $9.4 Million in Shares, Then Exits the Company
Record Store Day - Black Friday
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Nearly 1.75M vinyl albums were sold in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 30 - the fifth-biggest week for vinyl albums since Nielsen Soundscan began tracking data in 1991.
Top-Selling Record Store Day Black Friday 2023 Exclusive Albums at Independent Record Stores in US:
Linkin Park Lost Demos (Translucent Sea Blue vinyl) No. 1 overall
U2 U2 Live: Under a Blood Red Sky (Red vinyl) No. 4 overall
Rilo Kiley Under the Blacklight (Translucent Blacklight Purple) No. 6
Coheed And Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom (Solar Flare 2xLP) No. 9
The English Beat I Just Can’t Stop It (2xLP) No. 18
Top-Selling Record Store Day Black Friday 2023 Exclusive Singles:
Turnstile x BADBADNOTGOOD “Mystery" / "Alien Love Call” ft. Blood Orange / "Underwater Boy” (12”) No 3 overall
Motley Crue “Too Young To Fall In Love (Remix)” / “Knock ‘Em Dead Kid” / “Too Fast For Love” (Orange/Black 12”) No. 4
The Hold Steady “The Death of the Punch Line” / “Radar & Leda” (Random Color 12”) No. 9
New RIAA Certifications 🇺🇸
ASKING ALEXANDRIA
“Into the Fire”
Sumerian Records (2017)
GOLD SINGLE
ASKING ALEXANDRIA
“I Won’t Give In”
Sumerian Records (2015)
GOLD SINGLE
New BRIT Certifications🇬🇧
ANDREW WK
“Party Hard”
Island (2001)
SILVER SINGLE
PARAMORE
"Misery Business"
Fueled By Ramen (2007)
2x PLATINUM SINGLE
VELVET REVOLVER
“Slither”
Columbia (2004)
SILVER SINGLE
New in the Spotify Billions Club🌎
Aerosmith “Dream On”
Foo Fighters “Overlong”
Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah”
Metal Hammer
Creeper Sanguivore
Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But A Dream…
Code Orange The Above
Sleep Token Take Me Back To Eden
Metallica 72 Seasons
Svalbard The Weight of the Mask
TesseracT The War of Being
Green Lung This Heathen Land
Baroness Stone
Royal Thunder Rebuilding the Mountain
Myrkur Spine
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite
Urne A Feast for Sorrow
Empire State Bastard Rivers of Heresy
VV Neon Noir
Godflesh Purge
Wytch Hazel IV: Sacrament
Skindred Smile
Katatonia Sky Void of Stars
Primordial How It Ends
Vexed Negative Energy
Twin Temple God is Dead
Obituary Dying of Everything
Blood Command World Domination
Dødheimsgard Black Medium Current
Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit
Enslaved Heimdal
Pupil Slicer Blossom
Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre
Grave Pleasures Plagueboys
Oxbow Love's Holiday
Blackbraid Blackbraid II
Ken Mode Void
Within Temptation Bleed Out
Sylosis A Sign Of Things To Come
Maggot Heart Hunger
Voyager Fearless In Love
Zulu A New Tomorrow
Mutoid Man Mutants
Orbit Culture Descent
KK's Priest The Sinner Rides Again
Khanate To Be Cruel
Hellripper Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
Foo Fighters But Here We Are
Spirit Adrift Ghost At The Gallows
Ahab The Coral Tombs
Horrendous Ontological Mysterium
Burner It All Returns To Nothing
Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific
Blood Ceremony The Old Ways Remain
Metal Injection
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite
Insomnium Anno 1696
Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns
In Flames Foregone
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Night Demon Outsider
Avatar Dance Devil Dance
End The Sin of Human Frailty
Avenged Sevenfold Life is But a Dream…
Metallica 72 Seasons
Katatonia Sky Void of Stars
Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific
Enslaved Heimdal
Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit
Horrendous Ontological Mysterium
3TEETH EndEx
Dødheimsgard Black Medium Current
Gridlink Coronet Juniper
Fires In The Distance Air Not Meant For Us
Orbit Culture Descent
Pitchfork
37 Best Rock Albums of 2023 - Alphabetical
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Gee Tee Goodnight Neanderthal
Hotline TNT Cartwheel
Jeff Rosenstock HELLMODE
Liturgy 93696
MSPAINT Post-American
Ragana Desolation’s Flower
Snõõper Super Snõõper
Sweeping Promises Good Living is Coming for You
Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit
Wednesday Rat Saw God
The Quietus
Khanate To Be Cruel
Bell Witch Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate
Torpor Abscission
Godflesh Purge
Sarmat Determined to Strike
Wallowing Earth Reaper
Urfaust Untergang
Dødheimsgard Black Medium Current
Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit
Underdark Managed Decline
Ragana Desolation’s Flower
Atomiçk Towering Failures
Autopsy Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis
Closet Witch Chiaroscuro
Yellow Eyes Master’s Murmur
Dawn Ray’d To Know the Light
Sulfuric Cautery Suffocating Feats of Dehumanization
Full Of Hell & Primitive Man Suffocating Hallucination
Anachronism Meanders
RIFF
45 Best Albums of 2023
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Foo Fighters But Here We Are (No. 2 overall)
Paramore This Is Why (No. 4)
Avenged Sevenfold Life is But a Dream… (No. 15)
Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust (No. 23)
Sevendust Truth Killer (No. 24)
blink-182 ONE MORE TIME… (No. 31)
Manchester Orchestra The Valley of Vision (No. 40)
Recent Attendance
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