Metallica, Muse, Linkin Park
First-Week Sales, Attendance, More Spotify Wrapped, Year-End Lists
In This Issue:
Close to 100 additions to the Spotify Wrapped 2023 tally, including Metallica, Muse, Cage The Elephant, Disturbed, Ghost, Volbeat, In Flames, Silversun Pickups, The Devil Wears Prada, Thrown, All Them Witches, Taproot, Militarie Gun, Intervals, Dying Wish, Enterprise Earth, and many more.
This Week’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) Artists on Spotify.
Green Day, I Prevail, and the Top Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
Best Albums of 2023 from Consequence, Stereogum, Vulture, and more.
First-week sales for Linkin Park (Lost Demos); live records from The 1975, Limp Bizkit, All Time Low, Screaming Trees, and Slaughter To Prevail; The Melvins; Cruciamentum; Alta Reign; Citizen Soldier; Big Wreck; and more.
Recent attendance in North America, Europe, and Australia for U2; TOOL; Fall Out Boy, PVRIS; blink-182, The Story So Far; Queens Of The Stone Age; White Lies; Doro; The Amity Affliction, Silverstein; Motionless In White, Knocked Loose, After The Burial; Alice In Chains; Skillet & Theory Of A Deadman; Hollywood Undead & Tech N9ne; Europe; Bullet For My Valentine, Of Mice & Men; Animals As Leaders; All-American Rejects; Boys Like Girls, State Champs; Waterparks, Lights; Descendents; The Cult, Cold Cave; The Mars Volta; Wolfmother; Avatar, Orbit Culture; Ne Obliviscaris; and more.1
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 65 overall)
Queen (No. 73)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 89)
Metallica (No. 141)
Måneskin (No. 155)
Nirvana (No. 157)
Green Day (No. 163)
AC/DC (No. 178)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 183)
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 90 overall)
Deftones (No. 109 overall)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 125)
Fall Out Boy (No. 141)
Nirvana (No. 143)
Queen (No. 155)
Green Day (No. 159)
Metallica (No. 160)
blink-182 (No. 175)
Paramore (No. 179)
Mainstream Rock Airplay 🇺🇸
Green Day “The American Dream Is Killing Me”
Staind “Here And Now”
blink-182 “ONE MORE TIME…”
Daughtry “Artificial”
From Ashes To New “Nightmare”
Shinedown “A Symptom of Being Human”
Beartooth “Might Love Myself”
Dirty Honey “Won’t Take Me Alive…”
Mammoth WVH “I’m Alright”
Tim Montana “Devil You Know”
Sleep Theory “Numb”
Bad Wolves “Legends Never Die”
Foo Fighters “Under You”
Mike Shinoda “Already Over”
Metallica “Too Far Gone?”
Papa Roach “Leave A Light On”
The Struts “Too Good At Raising Hell”
Motionless In White “Sign Of Life”
Disturbed “Don’t Tell Me” ft. Ann Wilson
Fozzy “Spotlight”
Avenged Sevenfold “Mattel”
Atreyu “Gone”
Bush “Nowhere To Go But Everywhere”
Nickelback “Skinny Little Missy”
Scott Stapp “Higher Power”
Austin Meade “Blackout”
Greta Van Fleet “The Falling Sky”
Måneskin “Honey (Are U Coming?)”
Rolling Stones “Angry”
Des Rocs “I Am The Lightning”
Point North & Set It Off “Below The Belt”
U2 “Atomic City”
Dead Poet Society “Running in Circles” NEW
Vampires Everywhere! “Cry Little Sister”
Any Given Sin “Dynamite (2023 Version)”
Sleep Token “Granite”
Blind Channel “Deadzone”
Rubikon “Lose It All” NEW
I Prevail “Closure” NEW
Bring Me The Horizon “DArkSide”
Consequence
The 30 Best Metal & Hard Rock Albums of 2023
Poison Ruïn Härvest
Metallica 72 Seasons
Empire State Bastard Rivers of Heresy
Full Of Hell & Nothing When No Birds Sang
Baroness Stone
Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit
Jesus Piece So Unknown…
Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific
Cirith Ungol Dark Parade
TesseracT War of Being
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic…
Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite
Nita Strauss The Call of the Void
Spirit Adrift Ghost at the Gallows
Autopsy Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
BABYMETAL THE OTHER ONE
Code Orange The Above
Liturgy 93696
Enslaved Heimdal
Boris & Uniform Bright New Disease
Portrayal Of Guilt Devil Music
Obituary Dying of Everything
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Godflesh PURGE
Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead
Year Of The Knife No Love Lost
Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex
Danava Nothing But Nothing
3Teeth EndEx
Stereogum
50 Best Albums of 2023
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Wednesday Rat Saw God (No. 1 overall)
Ratboys The Window (No. 6)
Militarie Gun Life Under the Gun (No. 7)
Hotline TNT Cartwheel (No. 8)
MSPAINT Post-American (No. 9)
100 gecs 10,000 gecs (No. 10)
Bully Lucky for You (No. 13)
Slow Pulp Yard (No. 17)
Lamp Of Murmur Saturnian Bloodstorm (No. 37)
Panopticon The Rime of Memory (No. 43)
Homefront Games of Power (No. 45)
Drain Living Proof (No. 47)
Vulture
Best Albums of 2023
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Fires In The Distance Air Not Meant for Us (No. 9 overall)
Read out the updated Spotify Wrapped post here:
Spotify Wrapped for 250+ Rock & Metal Artists
Spotify Wrapped 2023 listenership for 250+ Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) acts. Tell me about any “Wrapped” stats I may have missed, and I will add them.
Album Sales 🇺🇸
CD, LP, Paid Digital
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