Metallica, Disturbed, Volbeat
Recent Attendance, RIAA Certifications, Hot Hard Rock Songs
In This Issue:
A ton of recent attendance numbers, including:
Metallica, Five Finger Death Punch, Pantera, Mammoth WVH, Ice Nine Kills; Def Leppard & Motley Crue, Alice Cooper; Nickelback; Greta Van Fleet, Silversun Pickups; Machine Gun Kelly; Foo Fighters; 5 Seconds Of Summer; Incubus, Badflower; Volbeat, Halestorm; HARDY; Shinedown; The Rasmus; Yellowcard, Mayday Parade, Story Of The Year; Pixies; Goldfinger; Tom Morello; Bayside; Tom Keifer, L.A. Guns; Underoath & The Ghost Inside, We Came As Romans, Better Lovers; King’s X; Overkill, Exhorder, Heathen; Galactic Empire, and more.
A Spotify reality check.
Disturbed hits a Rock Airplay milestone.
New BRIT sales certifications for Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, and Papa Roach. New RIAA certification for Slightly Stoopid.
Bad Omens, Superheaven, Avenged Sevenfold, and this week’s Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs.1
I went on an excellent mini-adventure to the East Coast, where I spent time with some great friends and family.
It all kicked off with a visit to the Metallica pop-up store near the former Giants Stadium in New Jersey with the wonderful Josh Bernstein, followed by a ripping set from Overkill in the parking lot (!), the reliably-theatrical Ice Nine Kills adapting well to the “in the round” stage, the tour debut of a very crowd-pleasing Five Finger Death Punch, and of course, the mighty Metallica themselves.
I’ve seen Metallica dozens of times, starting with the Monsters Of Rock Tour with Van Halen and Scorpions in 1988, and including underplays, secret shows, MTV Icon: Metallica (which I worked), and the Grammys, but I’d never been this close. The band was in fine form, with a palpable camaraderie between them.
This particular band and their camp moving over 160,000 tickets across two shows in the same town in 2023 is beyond inspiring and speaks well to the overall health of the genre, despite all of the frustrations and obstacles. It’s also a fantastic package, combining legacy acts, established modern acts, and new blood, between the two different shows in each city and ancillary events.
The next day I led a super fun Q&A (improv troupe performance?) with Ice Nine Kills frontman Spencer Charnas, true crime author Roy Merkin, and INK attorney Eric German for a capacity crowd at Barnes & Noble Union Square.
Shout-out to the wonderful Rare Bird Lit for putting that together and Mike Mowery for a very well-placed-possibly-scripted heckle.
A lot of younger fans in metal t-shirts.
We love to see it.
“Unstoppable” is Disturbed’s 12th No. 1 song on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. This puts them in a historical four-way tie with Metallica, Foo Fighters, and Godsmack.
Most Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1s in the chart’s 42-year history:
Shinedown (18), Three Days Grace (17), Five Finger Death Punch (14), Van Halen (13), Disturbed, Foo Fighters, Godsmack, Metallica (12), Tom Petty, Volbeat (10)
Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs 🥵
Bad Omens “Just Pretend” (19 weeks at No. 1)
Linkin Park “Lost”
Superheaven “Youngest Daughter”
HARDY “Sold Out”
Bad Omens “The Death Of Peace Of Mind”
Ghost “Mary On A Cross”
Falling In Reverse “Watch the World Burn”
Sleep Token “The Summoning”
Foo Fighters “Rescued”
HARDY “Jack”
Staind “Lowest In Me”
Avenged Sevenfold “Nobody”
Pierce The Veil “Emergency Contact”
Bring Me The Horizon “Lost”
I Prevail “Deep End”
Sleep Token “Granite”
Foo Fighters “Under You” RE-ENTRY
Sleep Token “Take Me Back To Eden”
Lil Uzi Vert “Werewolf” ft. Bring Me The Horizon
Linkin Park “Fighting Myself”
Disturbed “Unstoppable”
Shinedown “Dead Don’t Die”
CORPSE & Bring Me The Horizon “Code Mistake”
Catch Your Breath “Dial Tone”
Lil Uzi Vert “The End” ft. BABYMETAL
Spotify Reality Check 🤪
Monthly listeners for some non-Hard Rock/Metal artists on Spotify.
112.8M - The Weeknd
98.3M - Taylor Swift
83.8M - Bad Bunny
78.1M - Ed Sheeran
77.1M - Dua Lipa
74.5M - Drake
74.4M - Travis Scott
74.2M - Rihanna
72.0M - Justin Bieber
70.6M - Billie Eilish
New RIAA Certification 🇺🇸
SLIGHTLY STOOPID
“Closer to the Sun”
Stoopid/MRI (2005)
PLATINUM SINGLE
New BPI Certifications 🇬🇧
LINKIN PARK
“One Step Closer”
Warner (2000)
PLATINUM SINGLE
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
May Death Never Stop You
Reprise (2014)
PLATINUM ALBUM
PAPA ROACH
“Last Resort”
Dreamworks (2000)
2x PLATINUM SINGLE
Attendance 🎫
METALLICA
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
ICE NINE KILLS
OVERKILL
East Rutherford, NJ: 82,051 / 82,108
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