Metallica, Iron Maiden, Creed

Top Tours 2024; BRIT Certifications; Album Sales; Recent Attendance

Metallica Sept 29, 2024 📸: Jeff Yeager/Metallica.com

In This Issue:

Linkin Park, Bad Omens, Falling In Reverse, Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Knocked Loose, and Billboard’s Top 40 Hard Rock Albums and Top 25 Hard Rock Artists of 2024, plus the Top 10 Hot Hard Rock Songs Artists.

Better Noise, BMG (Rise, etc.), Spinefarm, Epitaph, Concord (Fearless, etc.), and Billboard’s Top 10 Mainstream Rock Airplay Labels of 2024.

Attendance/grosses for 2024’s top seven Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) tours.

Sleep Token, Fontaines DC, and Sum 41 earn new BRIT certifications.

Weekly update for dozens of Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) albums.

Recent attendance for Iron Maiden (South America); The Killers (Sydney); Jelly Roll, Twiztid (Detroit); Creed, 3 Doors Down, Mammoth WVH (NYC); Twenty One Pilots (Midwest); Within Temptation (Europe); Frank Turner (Germany);

Apocalyptica (Germany); Dashboard Confessional (Columbus, Pittsburgh); The Last Dinner Party (Ireland); Steel Panther, John 5 (Australia); W.A.S.P. (Seattle); Cannibal Corpse, Immolation, Municipal Waste (Sweden); Frank Carter (Germany); 1349 (Sweden); Batushka (Dublin); Anvil (Dublin), and more.¹

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VCTMS, Windwaker, LANDMVRKS, Silent Planet, NOVELISTS, Until I Wake, Crooked Teeth, Cassyette, The Darkness, Dead Poet Society ft. The Warning, Superheaven, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.

Linkin Park 📸: Linkin Park Facebook

Billboard Top Hard Rock Artists 2024 🇺🇸

1. Linkin Park

2. HARDY

3. Bad Omens

4. Foo Fighters

5. Falling In Reverse

6. Queen

7. Bring Me The Horizon

8. Sleep Token

9. Nickelback

10. Pearl Jam

11. Metallica

12. Guns N’ Roses

13. Aerosmith

14. Five Finger Death Punch

15. AC/DC

16. Bon Jovi

17. Creed

18. System Of A Down

19. Seether

20. Korn

21. Led Zeppelin

22. 3 Doors Down

23. Superheaven

24. Sleep Theory

25. Evanescence

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Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums 2024 🇺🇸

1. Queen Greatest Hits

2. Nickelback The Best of Nickelback: Volume 1

3. HARDY the mockingbird & THE CROW

4. Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits

5. Aerosmith Greatest Hits

6. AC/DC Back in Black

7. Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection

8. Linkin Park Papercuts

9. Foo Fighters Greatest Hits

10. Creed Greatest Hits

11. Metallica Metallica

12. System Of A Down Toxicity

13. Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden

14. Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1

15. 3 Doors Down The Greatest Hits

16. Linkin Park Meteora

17. Linkin Park Hybrid Theory

18. Evanescence Fallen

19. Seether Vicennial: 2 Decades of Seether

20. Led Zeppelin Mothership

21. Five Finger Death Punch A Decade of Destruction

22. Three Days Grace One-X

23. Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind

24. Deftones Around the Fur

25. Alice In Chains Dirt

26. Falling In Reverse Popular Monster

27. Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne

28. Pearl Jam Dark Matter

29. Metalica Ride the Lightning

30. Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve and Other Stories

31. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV

32. ZZ Top Goin’ 50

33. Bring Me The Horizon Post Human: NeX GEn

34. Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight

35. HARDY Quit!!

36. Pearl Jam Ten

37. System Of A Down System of a Down

38. Rage Against The Machine Rage Against the Machine

39. Metallica Master of Puppets

40. Knocked Loose You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To

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Billboard Top Tours 2024

Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)

1. Metallica $175.2M (gross) / 1.5M (attendance) / 24 shows (No. 10 overall)

2. Green Day $132.4M (gross) / 1.2M (attendance) / 36 (shows) (No. 21)

3. Depeche Mode $124.8M / 910k / 63 (No. 25)

4. blink-182 $118.7M / 1.1M / 61 (No. 26)

5. Foo Fighters $104M / 786k / 25 (No. 27)

6. Red Hot Chili Peppers $90.9M / 939k / 31 (No. 33)

7. Pearl Jam $78.2M / 466k / 23 (No. 40)

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Bad Omens 📸: Bad Omens Facebook

Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs Artists 2024 🇺🇸

1. Bad Omens

2. Linkin Park

3. HARDY

4. Bring Me The Horizon

5. Falling In Reverse

6. Pearl Jam

7. Sleep Token

8. Foo Fighters

9. Superheaven

10. Sleep Theory

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Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay Labels 🇺🇸

1. Better Noise

2. Warner

3. BMG

4. Big Machine

5. Spinefarm

6. Epitaph

7. Concord

8. REPUBLIC Collective

9. 300 Elektra Entertainment

10. Virgin

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BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧

FONTAINES DC
Romance
(XL Recordings) 2024
GOLD ALBUM

FONTAINES DC
Dogrel
(Partisan) 2019
GOLD ALBUM

SLEEP TOKEN
Take Me Back to Eden
(Spinefarm) 2023
GOLD ALBUM

SUM 41
“The Hell Song”
(Mercury) 2004
SILVER SINGLE

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Album Sales 🇺🇸

Physical & Digital