Metallica, Falling In Reverse, Ghost
Year-End Hard Rock, Metal, Alt Charts; Best Album Lists; RIAA certifications
In This Issue:
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Def Leppard & Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, and the Top Hard Rock Tours of 2022, by attendance. Ghost, Slipknot, Shinedown, Pierce The Veil, and the Top Hard Rock Albums (new and catalog) of the year, plus this year’s Top Rock & Alternative Artists, Top Hard Rock Artists, Hot Hard Rock Songs Artists, and Mainstream Rock Airplay Artists.
The Top 10 Metal Albums of 2022 according to Decibel, Revolver, and more.
New RIAA certifications for The Plot In You, Seether, and Weezer.1
The Billboard Year-End Charts rolled out this week. There are a ton, many of them genre specific, so head over to the Billboard site to see all of them.
Here are the relevant Hard Rock, Alternative, and Metal bits.
Top Hard Rock Tours (By Attendance)
Red Hot Chili Peppers 1.4M fans / 31 shows
Def Leppard & Motley Crue 1.3M / 35 shows
Guns N’ Roses 1M fans / 27 shows
Iron Maiden 984k fans / 47 shows
My Chemical Romance 714k fans / 55 shows
Top Rock & Alternative Artists
Glass Animals
Imagine Dragons
Zach Bryan
Steve Lacy
Billie Eilish
GAYLE
Kate Bush
Machine Gun Kelly
The Beatles
Fleetwood Mac
Elton John
Queen
Metallica
Jelly Roll
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Måneskin
Guns N’ Roses
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Elvis Presley
Journey
Nicky Youre
dazy
Arctic Monkeys
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Top Hard Rock Artists
Metallica
Queen
Five Finger Death Punch
Guns N’ Roses
Foo Fighters
Falling In Reverse
Ghost
Three Days Grace
Nickelback
Linkin Park
AC/DC
HARDY
Bon Jovi
Led Zeppelin
Aerosmith
Motionless In White
Måneskin
Papa Roach
SiM
Ozzy Osbourne
Giovannie & The Hired Guns
Shinedown
System of a Down
Seether
Bring Me The Horizon
Hot Hard Rock Songs Artists
Falling In Reverse
Metallica
Ghost
Three Days Grace
Five Finger Death Punch
HARDY
Foo Fighters
Måneskin
Papa Roach
SiM
Hot Hard Rock Songs
Metallica “Master of Puppets”
Falling In Reverse “ZOMBIFIED”
Three Days Grace “So Called Life”
HARDY “Sold Out”
SiM “The Rumbling”
Måneskin “I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE”
Giovannie & The Hired Guns “Roman Ayala”
Falling In Reverse “Voices In My Head”
Ghost “Mary On A Cross”
Papa Roach “Kill The Noise”
Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
Motionless In White “Masterpiece”
Shinedown “Planet Zero”
Ghost “Call Me Little Sunshine”
Muse “Won’t Stand Down”
Five Finger Death Punch “AfterLife”
Disturbed “Hey You”
Kid Rock “We The People”
Three Days Grace “Lifetime”
Foo Fighters “Everlong”
I Prevail “Bad Things”
Bring Me The Horizon “DiE4u”
Foo Fighters “Love Dies Young”
My Chemical Romance “The Foundations of Decay”
Volbeat “Shotgun Blues”
Ozzy Osbourne “Patient No. 9” ft Jeff Beck
Bring Me The Horizon “Strangers”
Five Finger Death Punch “Times Like These”
Loveless “Middle of the Night”
State Of Mine & Drew Jacobs “God’s Country”
Korn “Star the Healing”
Ghost “Hunter’s Moon”
DOROTHY “Rest In Peace”
Five Finger Death Punch “Welcome to the Circus”
Bad Omens “Like a Villain”
Halestorm “The Steeple”
Nickelback “San Quentin”
Turnstile “MYSTERY”
HARDY “Jack”
Nita Strauss & David Draiman “Dead Inside”
Miracle Of Sound “Valhalla Calling” ft. Peyton Parrish
Pierce The Veil “Pass The Nirvana”
Ed Sheeran “Bad Habits” ft. Bring Me The Horizon
Bad Omens “Just Pretend”
Papa Roach “No Apologies”
Greta Van Fleet “Heat Above”
Bad Wolves “If Tomorrow Never Comes”
Greta Van Fleet “Light My Love”
A Day To Remember “Miracle”
Pop Evil “Eye of the Storm”
Mainstream Rock Airplay Artists
Three Days Grace
Ghost
Papa Roach
Shinedown
Falling In Reverse
Five Finger Death Punch
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Korn
Volbeat
Halestorm
Top Hard Rock Albums
Sales & Streaming, According to Billboard/Luminate
Queen Greatest Hits
Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits
AC/DC Back in Black
Metallica Metallica
Foo Fighters Greatest Hits
Nickelback The Best of Nickelback: Volume 1
Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection
Linkin Park [Hybrid Theory]
Five Finger Death Punch A Decade of Destruction
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
Seether Vicennial: 2 Decades of Seether
Aerosmith Devil’s Got a New Disguise: The Very Best of Aerosmith
System of a Down Toxicity
3 Doors Down Greatest Hits
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine
Cage The Elephant Melophobia
Linkin Park Meteora
Motley Crue Greatest Hits
Metallica Master Of Puppets
Ghost Impera
Three Days Grace One-X
Queen Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection
Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne Patient Number 9
Slipknot The End, So Far
Aerosmith Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits
Shinedown Planet Zero
Pierce The Veil Collide With The Sky
Motley Crue The Dirt (Soundtrack)
Megadeth The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Def Leppard Diamond Star Halos
Def Leppard Hysteria
Led Zeppelin Mothership
Five Finger Death Punch AfterLife
Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve And Other Stories
Alice In Chains Dirt
Greta Van Fleet The Battle At Garden’s Gate
Breaking Benjamin shaLLow bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin
Pearl Jam Ten
Korn Greatest Hits Vol. I
Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer
Motionless In White Scoring the End of the World
Creed Greatest Hits
System of a Down System of a Down
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced
Rush Moving Pictures
ZZ Top Goin’ 50
Korn Requiem
Album of the Year Lists (So Far)
Decibel Magazine
Undeath, It’s Time… To Rise from the Grave
Cave In, Heavy Pendulum
SONJA, Loud Arriver
BlackBraid, BlackBraid I
Immolation, Acts of God
Soul Glo, Diaspora Problems
Nechochwen, Kanawha Black
Kreator, Hate Über Alles
KEN mode, NULL
Mortuous, Upon Desolation
Revolver Magazine
Ghost, IMPERA
Lorna Shore, Pain Remains
Lamb Of God, Omens
Soul Glo, Diaspora Problems
Bad Omens, THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND
Megadeth, The Sick, The Dying… And the Dead!
Undeath, It’s Time… To Rise from the Grave
Tallah, The Generation of Danger
Meshuggah, Immutable
The Callous Daoboys, Celebrity Therapist
Revolver Magazine (Hardcore)
Soul Glo, Diaspora Problems
Mindforce, New Lords
Terror, Pain Into Power
Gridiron, No Good At Goodbyes
Punitive Damage, This is the Blackout
End It, Unpleasant Living
No/Más, Consume / Deny / Repent
Killing Pace, Killing Pace
CANDY, Heaven is Here
Drug Church, Hygiene
Treble Zine (Metal)
Cloud Rat, Threshold
Mizmor & Thou, Myopia
Undeath, It’s Time… To Rise from the Grave
Dream Unending, Song of Salvation
KEN mode, NULL
Ripped To Shreds, Jubian
CANDY, Heaven is Here
Helms Alee, Keep This Be the Way
Devil Master, Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
Ashenspire, Hostile Architecture
PopMatters (Metal)
Aeviterne, The Ailing Facade
Sigh, Shiki
Chat Pile, God’s Country
Ashenspire, Hostile Architecture
Blut Aus Nord, Disharmonium: Undreamable Abysses
Ithaca, They Fear Us
KEN mode, NULL
Abhorrent Expanse, Gateways to Resplendence
Artificial Brain, Artificial Brain
Judicator, The Majesty of Decay
New RIAA Certifications
THE PLOT IN YOU
“Feel Nothing”
Fearless (2017)
GOLD SINGLE
PORTUGAL. THE MAN
“Feel It Still”
Atlantic Records (2017)
7x PLATINUM SINGLE
SEETHER
“Nobody Praying for Me”
Fantasy (2015)
GOLD SINGLE
SEETHER
Isolate and Medicate
Fantasy (2014)
GOLD ALBUM
WEEZER
“Africa”
Atlantic (2018)
PLATINUM SINGLE
WEEZER
“Feels Like Summer”
Atlantic (2017)
GOLD SINGLE
Sources: Billboard, RIAA, Misc.
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