In This Issue:
Motionless In White, Dying Fetus, Sparklehorse, Boris, George Lynch, Conquer Divide, Cryptopsy, Kvelertak, Pain Of Truth, Sylosis, Empty Pockets, Everclear, Dark Divine, Flower Kings, Art Of Shock, Saliva, With Honor, Domkraft, Blackbird Angels, UnityTX, Puddle Of Mudd, Mustard Plug, and more first-week sales, plus updates on dozens of hard rock, metal, and punk(ish) albums.1
U.S. Recorded Music Revenues Hit All-Time High of $8.4B in First Half of 2023: RIAA
Streaming saw double-digit growth and accounted for 84% of all revenues. Read a detailed breakdown of the RIAA’s midyear report at Billboard.
Motionless In White returns to the Billboard 200 this week, thanks to a new deluxe edition (featuring four bonus tracks) of their most recent album, Scoring the End of the World, which coincides with the record’s first time on vinyl.
Scoring the End of the World did 7644 in “total activity” this week, putting it at 182 on the Billboard 200. 4562 of that number were album sales (including 3904 vinyl copies). 3.4M audio streams and 548k video streams accounted for 2849 streaming equivalent album units. To date, Scoring the End of the World has sold 47,564 albums (CDs, LPs, and paid downloads) since it arrived in June 2022.
The Wonder Years’ Greatest Generation sold roughly 3,500 copies on vinyl this week, pushing the 2013 album’s sales total to around 70,000.
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 67 overall)
Queen (No. 73)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 120)
Metallica (No. 124)
Nirvana (No. 149)
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 77 overall)
Deftones (No. 92)
Fall Out Boy (No. 96)
Jelly Roll (No. 98)
Metallica (No. 119)
Nirvana (No. 124)
Queen (No. 134)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 142)
Green Day (No. 149)
Paramore (No. 150)
AC/DC (No. 180)
Machine Gun Kelly (No. 184)
System of a Down (No. 191)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 198)
Panic! At The Disco (No. 200)
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