Linkin Park, FiR, Spiritbox

First-Week Album Sales, RIAA & BRIT Certifications, Hot Hard Rock Songs

Ice Nine Kills, David Howard Thornton, Mike Cortada at Silver Scream Con III

In This Issue:

Linkin Park shot up 44 (!) spots on Spotify’s Weekly Top Artists Chart (worldwide), cracking the Top 10 at No. 8. The Top 10 is rarefied air occupied by Taylor, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake, et al. 

Falling In Reverse’s Popular Monster (2024) is now certified gold by the RIAA as of September 17 for over 500k album units. Popular Monster contains the double-platinum title track and three gold singles, which started dropping in late 2019.

Linkin Park and Falling In Reverse occupy several spots on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (sales, streaming, airplay), with a debut from Spiritbox.

The Darkness’ “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” is booming again.

Green Day’s 1994 breakthrough, Dookie, is now 20x platinum.

New Blur, Jimmy Eat World, Oasis, and Stone Roses BRIT sales certifications.

First-week album sales for David Gilmour, The The, Dead Daisies, Phil Mogg, Fame On Fire, Many Eyes, Manchester Orchestra (live), Peeling Flesh, God Is An Astronaut, Boston Manor, Pyrrhon, Wolfheart, Jordan Rudess, God Dethroned, Elephant Tree, Future Palace, Hey-Smith (deluxe edition), and more.¹

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Agency Signings ✍🏻

• The Acacia Strain w/ Sound Talent Group 

• DragonForce w/ Sound Talent Group 

• Drug Church w/ Sound Talent Group 

• Dying Fetus w/ Sound Talent Group 

• Frozen Soul w/ Sound Talent Group 

• Helmet w/ Sound Talent Group 

• Higher Power w/ Sound Talent Group 

• La Dispute w/ Primary Talent & TBA Agency 

• Linda Perry w/ CAA 

• Oxymorons w/ Sound Talent Group 

• Self Defense Family w/ Sound Talent Group 

• True North w/ Sound Talent Group 

• Your Spirit Dies w/ Dynamic Talent International 

Management Signings ✍🏻

• Dashboard Confessional w/ Q Prime 

• Liily w/ PMM 

Record Label Signings ✍🏻

• As It Is w/ Slam Dunk Records 

• Split Chain w/ Epitaph Records 

• TSS w/ Fearless Records 

• Unwell w/ Pure Noise Records 

• Walking Wounded w/ Relapse Records 

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Bones UK, Set It Off, The Offspring, chokecherry, Black Label Society, Silly Goose, Silent Theory, Underoath, As I Lay Dying ft. Alex Terrible, Whitechapel, Jinjer, Nightwish, Mastodon & Lamb Of God, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy Spotify playlist. 

Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎

Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) 

1. Linkin Park (No. 8 overall) ⬆ 

2. Queen (No. 66 overall) ⬆ 

3. Oasis (No. 91)

4. Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 106) ⬆ 

5. Green Day (No. 119) ⬆ 

6. AC/DC (No. 124)

7. Nirvana (No. 129) ⬆ 

8. Metallica (No. 130)

9. Radiohead (No. 132) ⬆ 

10. Twenty One Pilots (No. 134)

11. System Of A Down (No. 167) ⬆ 

12. Blink-182 (No. 190) RE-ENTRY 

Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸

Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) 

1. Linkin Park (No. 23 overall) ⬆ 

2. Jelly Roll (No. 52)

3. Deftones (No. 88) ⬆ 

4. Twenty One Pilots (No. 95) ⬆ 

5. Green Day (No. 96) ⬆ 

6. Nirvana (No. 98) ⬆ 

7. Blink-182 (No. 116) ⬆ 

8. Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 122) ⬆ 

9. Radiohead (No. 124) ⬆ 

10. Metallica (No. 129)

11. Queen (No. 138) ⬆ 

12. Fall Out Boy (No. 147) ⬆ 

13. AC/DC (No. 148)

14. Nickelback (No. 156)

15. System Of A Down (No. 163) ⬆ 

16. HARDY (No. 168)

17. Paramore (No. 180)

18. Slipknot (No. 191) RE-ENTRY 

19. Three Days Grace (No. 197) RE-ENTRY 

20. The Smiths (No. 199) RE-ENTRY 

Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs 🇺🇸

1. Linkin Park “The Emptiness Machine” 

2. Linkin Park “Numb” RE-ENTRY 

3. Linkin Park “In The End” RE-ENTRY 

4. Linkin Park “One Step Closer” NEW 

5. Linkin Park “Faint” NEW 

6. Falling In Reverse & Jelly Roll “All My Life” 

7. Falling In Reverse “Prequel” 

8. Falling In Reverse, Tech N9ne & Alex Terrible “Ronald” 

9. HARDY “Psycho” 

10. Falling In Reverse ft. Saraya “Bad Guy” 

11. Spiritbox “Soft Spine” NEW 

12. HARDY “Six Feet Under (Caleigh’s Song)” 

13. AJ DiSpirito ft. Zephyrianna “Bite Me” 

14. Halestorm & I Preval “can u see me in the dark?” 

15. Bring Me The Horizon “Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood” 

16. NXCRE & The Villains “Usurper” 

17. Sleep Theory “Stuck in My Head” 

18. HARDY “Jim Bob” 

19. Falling In Reverse “Trigger Warning” 

20. Seether “Judas Mind” 

21. Wage War “Magnetic” 

22. BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy “RATATATA” 

23. Five Finger Death Punch ft. DMX “This is the Way” 

24. Catch Your Breath “Shame On Me” 

25. Rain City Drive & Dayseeker “Medicate Me” 

Hard Rock Digital Song Sales 🇺🇸

1. Linkin Park “The Emptiness Machine” 

2. The Darkness “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” RE-ENTRY 

3. AC/DC “Thunderstruck” 

4. Linkin Park “In The End” RE-ENTRY 

5. Spiritbox “Soft Spine” NEW 

6. Linkin Park “Numb” RE-ENTRY 

7. Disturbed “The Sound of Silence” 

8. Metallica “Enter Sandman” 

9. Linkin Park “Crawling” RE-ENTRY 

10. Linkin Park ‘What I’ve Done” RE-ENTRY 

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NEW RIAA Certifications 🇺🇸

FALLING IN REVERSE 
Popular Monster 
(Epitaph Records) 2024 
GOLD ALBUM 

GREEN DAY 
Dookie 
(Reprise) 1994
20x PLATINUM ALBUM 

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New BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧

BLUR 
The Best Of 
(Food) 2000 
5x PLATINUM ALBUM 

JIMMY EAT WORLD 
“Salt Sweat Sugar” 
(Dreamworks) 2004
SILVER SINGLE 

OASIS 
“The Importance of Being Idle” 
(Big Brother) 2005
PLATINUM SINGLE 

STONE ROSES 
The Very Best Of 
(Silvertone) 2012 
4x PLATINUM 

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Albums Sales 🇺🇸

Physical & Digital