KISS, Mr. Bungle, Polyphia, Year End Charts

Billboard End Of Year Lists, RIAA Certifications, Recent Attendance

Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Vinnie Vincent, and the late Eric Carr

In This Issue:

Billboard’s Year-End charts, including Top Rock Artists, Hard Rock Artists, Hot Hard Rock Songs, and Hard Rock Albums, featuring Linkin Park, Metallica, Queen, Bad Omens, Falling In Reverse, Sleep Token, and many more.

New RIAA certifications for Fall Out Boy.

A ton of recent attendance from around the world (the biggest update in a while), including KISS; Måneskin; Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper, Ministry, Filter; Weezer; Sammy Hagar; Alter Bridge; Godsmack, I Prevail, Atreyu, Flatblack; Lorna Shore, Rivers Of Nihil; Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica; Mr. Bungle; Polyphia; Parkway Drive, The Amity Affliction; Dropkick Murphys, The Interrupters…

Ice Nine Kills & In This Moment; Europe; Blind Guardian; Funeral For A Friend; Jinjer, Monuments; City And Colour; Rival Sons; Halestorm, Black Veil Brides; Steel Panther; Millencolin; Sleep Token; Dance Gavin Dance, SiM, Rain City Drive; Static-X, Sevendust, Dope; Cannibal Corpse, Mayhem; Corey Taylor; Enter Shikari; Kvelertak; Alkaline Trio; Neck Deep…

Don Broco; Avatar, Orbit Culture; Atreyu & Memphis May Fire; Suicide Silence & Chelsea Grin; Municipal Waste; Amigo The Devil; Baroness; Aclest; Angelmaker; Of Virtue; Protest The Hero; Finch; Converge; Attila; Quicksand; Cult Of Luna; Pop Evil; Invent Animate; Exciter, and more…¹

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Recent Signings ✍🏻

• Alienist w/ UNFD

• Caskets w/ UTA 

• The Dictators w/ TKO Booking

• Doro w/ Bigg Time 

• Grayscale w/ UTA 

• Hollow Front w/ TKO Booking

• Pathology w/ Agonia Records 

• Sleater-Kinney w/ Ten Atoms 

• Southpaw w/ TKO Booking

• The Sun’s Journey Through The Night w/ Echelon 

• Underside w/ UTA 

• Whitechapel w/ Ground Control Touring 

• Wristmeetrazor w/ Dynamic Talent International

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Billboard Year-End Charts

Top Rock Artists 2023

1. Zach Bryan 

2. Jelly Roll 

3. Steve Lacy 

4. Noah Kahan 

5. Stephen Sanchez 

6. Fleetwood Mac 

7. Elton John 

8. d4vd

9. Queen 

10. Hozier 

11. Arctic Monkeys 

12. Creedence Clearwater Revival 

13. HARDY 

14. Foo Fighters 

15. Linkin Park 

16. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 

17. Metallica 

18. Guns N’ Roses 

19. Nirvana 

20. Journey 

21. Lizzy McAlpine 

22. Nickelback 

23. Imagine Dragons 

24. Fall Out Boy 

25. Bad Omens 

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Top Hard Rock Artists 2023

1. Linkin Park 

2. HARDY 

3. Bad Omens 

4. Metallica 

5. Sleep Token 

6. Foo Fighters 

7. Falling In Reverse 

8. Queen 

9. Ghost 

10. Nickelback 

11. Guns N’ Roses 

12. AC/DC 

13. Five Finger Death Punch 

14. Bon Jovi 

15. Pierce The Veil 

16. System Of A Down

17. Aerosmith 

18. Led Zeppelin 

19. Avenged Sevenfold 

20. 3 Doors Down 

21. Bring Me The Horizon 

22. Rage Against The Machine 

23. Seether 

24. Måneskin 

25. I Prevail 

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Hot Hard Rock Songs 2023 🇺

1. Bad Omens “Just Pretend” 

2. Linkin Park “Lost” 

3. Ghost “Mary On A Cross” 

4. Falling In Reverse “Watch the World Burn” 

5. HARDY “Jack” 

6. Sleep Token “The Summoning” 

7. HARDY “Sold Out” 

8. Bad Omens “The Death Of Peace Of Mind” 

9. Falling In Reverse “The Voices In My Head” 

10. Foo Fighters “Rescued” 

11. Metallica “Lux Aeterna” 

12. Sleep Token “Granite” 

13. Linkin Park “Fighting Myself” 

14. Avenged Sevenfold “Nobody” 

15. Superheaven “Youngest Daughter” 

16. Catch Your Breath “Dial Tone” 

17. Metallica “72 Seasons” 

18. Pierce The Veil “Emergency Contact” 

19. Daughtry “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” ft. Lzzy Hale 

20. Bring Me The Horizon “Lost” 

21. I Prevail “Deep End” 

22. Måneskin “Gossip” ft. Tom Morello 

23. Sleep Token “Take Me Back To Eden” 

24. Foo Fighters “Under You” 

25. Sleep Token “Chokehold” 

26. Five Finger Death Punch “Welcome To The Circus” 

27. Nickelback “San Quentin” 

28. Staind “Lowest In Me” 

29. Shinedown “Dead Don’t Die” 

30. Lil Uzi Vert “Werewolf” ft. Bring Me The Horizon 

31. Ghost “Spillways” 

32. Godsmack “Surrender” 

33. Pierce The Veil “Pass The Nirvana” 

34. Greta Van Fleet “Meeting The Master” 

35. HARDY “The Mockingbird & The Crow” 

36. The Smashing Pumpkins “Beguiled” 

37. HARDY “.30-06” 

38. I Prevail “Bad Things” 

39. Lil Uzi Vert “The End” ft. BABYMETAL 

40. Måneskin “Honey (Are U Coming?)” 

41. Disturbed “Bad Man” 

42. Motionless In White “Masterpiece” 

43. Falling In Reverse “Zombified” 

44. Disturbed “Hey You” 

45. STARSET “Waiting On The Sky To Change” ft. Breaking Benjamin 

46. Metallica “If Darkness Had A Son” 

47. Lil Uzi Vert “CS” 

48. Sleep Token “Rain” 

49. Giovannie & The Hired Guns “Ramon Ayala” 

50. CORPSE & Bring Me The Horizon “CODE MISTAKE” 

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Top Hard Rock Albums 2023 🇺

1. Queen Greatest Hits (1981) 

2. HARDY the mockingbird & THE CROW (2023) 

3. Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits (2004) 

4. Nickelback The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 (2013) 

5. Metallica Metallica (1991) 

6. AC/DC Back in Black (1980) 

7. Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection (2010) 

8. Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (2000) 

9. Linkin Park Meteora (2003) 

10. System Of A Down Toxicity (2001) 

11. Five Finger Death Punch A Decade of Destruction (2017) 

12. 3 Doors Down The Greatest Hits (2012) 

13. Foo Fighters Greatest Hits (2009) 

14. Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind (2022) 

15. Aerosmith Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits (1980) 

16. Metallica 72 Seasons (2023) 

17. Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine (1992) 

18. Foo Fighters The Essential Foo Fighters (2022) 

19. Seether Vicennial: 2 Decades of Seether (2021) 

20. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 

21. Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (2004) 

22. Nirvana Nirvana (2002) 

23. Sleep Token Take Me Back To Eden (2023) 

24. Pearl Jam Ten (1991) 

25. Foo Fighters But Here We Are (2023) 

26. Aerosmith Greatest Hits (2023) 

27. Metallica Master of Puppets (1986) 

28. Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne (2003) 

29. Three Days Grace One-X (2006) 

30. Pierce The Veil Collide with the Sky (2012) 

31. Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve And Other Stories (1996) 

32. Alice In Chains Dirt (1992) 

33. Led Zeppelin Mothership (2007) 

34. Cage The Elephant Melophobia (2013) 

35. System Of A Down System of a Down (1998) 

36. Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight (2007) 

37. Greta Van Fleet Starcatcher (2023) 

38. Creed Greatest Hits (2004) 

39. Deftones Around the Fur (1997) 

40. Motley Crue The Dirt (Soundtrack) (2019) 

41. Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But A Dream… (2023) 

42. Queens Of The Stone Age In Times New Roman… (2023) 

43. The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995) 

44. Disturbed Divisive (2022) 

45. Ghost Phantomime (EP) (2023) 

46. Måneskin RUSH! (2023) 

47. Pierce The Veil The Jaws of Life (2023) 

48. Metallica Ride the Lightning (1984) 

49. Nickelback Get Rollin’ (2022) 

50. Godsmack Lighting Up The Sky (2023) 

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New RIAA Certifications 🇺🇸

FALL OUT BOY 
“Beat It” ft. John Mayer 
Island Records (2008) 
PLATINUM SINGLE 

FALL OUT BOY 
“Sugar, We’re Goin Down” 
Island Records (2005) 
8x PLATINUM SINGLE 

FALL OUT BOY 
“Dance, Dance” 
Island Records (2005) 
5x PLATINUM SINGLE 

FALL OUT BOY 
“A Little Less Sixteen…” 
Island Records (2005) 
PLATINUM SINGLE 

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