In This Issue:
Sleep Token, Linkin Park, System Of A Down, Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, and Spotify’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) artists and albums this week.
Pierce The Veil, YUNGBLUD, Linkin Park, and Nirvana earn new UK sales awards. Box office for Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, and We The Kings at MSG.1
Management Signing ✍🏻
Until I Wake w/ RM 64
Record Label Signing ✍🏻
FESTERDECAY w/ Relapse
FIRE WITH FIRE🔥 w/ Ryan J. Downey. ICYMI, the first episode is up now, in partnership with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 30 overall)
Radiohead (No. 64)
Queen (No. 94)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 99)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 104)
Metallica (No. 112)
Sleep Token (No. 120)
System Of A Down (No. 131)
Nirvana (No. 133)
Green Day (No. 134)
AC/DC (No. 158)
Guns N’ Roses (No. 199)
Spotify Weekly Top Albums 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Sleep Token Even in Arcadia (No. 22 overall)
Linkin Park Meteora (No. 66)
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (No. 72)
Nirvana Nevermind (No. 76)
Linkin Park From Zero (No. 79)
System Of A Down Toxicity (No. 90)
Twenty One Pilots Blurryface (No. 97)
Radiohead OK Computer (No. 105)
Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (No. 129)
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (No. 143)
The Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up the Girl (No. 147)
Metallica Metallica (No. 149)
Three Days Grace Life Starts Now (No. 187)
Oasis (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (No. 192)
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Sleep Token (No. 39 overall)
Radiohead (No. 54)
Linkin Park (No. 58)
Deftones (No. 77)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 88)
Metallica (No. 110)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 113)
Nirvana (No. 115)
mgk (No. 119)
Paramore (No. 126)
Green Day (No. 128)
Nickelback (No. 144)
Fall Out Boy (No. 159)
Pierce The Veil (No. 160)
System Of A Down (No. 165)
Sublime (No. 171)
Three Days Grace (No. 177)
AC/DC (No. 179)
Queen (No. 180)
Alice In Chains (No. 191)
Spotify Weekly Top Albums 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Sleep Token Even in Arcadia (No. 11 overall)
Sublime Sublime (No. 72)
Three Days Grace Life Starts Now (No. 73)
Nirvana Nevermind (No. 74)
Radiohead OK Computer (No. 97)
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (No. 111)
System Of A Down Toxicity (No. 122)
Linkin Park Meteora (No. 126)
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication (No. 138)
Weezer Weezer (The Blue Album) (No. 140)
Twenty One Pilots Blurryface (No. 144)
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden (No. 178)
The Killers Hot Fuss (No. 183)
Metallica Metallica (No. 199)
Alice Cooper, The All-American Rejects, Amorphis, Car Bomb, Creeper, Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway, Dark Angel, Demon Hunter, Evanescence ft. K.Flay, Gwar, Katatonia, Killswitch Engage, Orthodox ft. Brann Dailor, Paleface Swiss, Paradise Lost, PRESIDENT, Sabaton, Shadow Of Intent, Split Chain, Turnstile, Volbeat, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.
BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧
LINKIN PARK
“The Emptiness Machine”
(Warner Records) 2024
GOLD SINGLE
NIRVANA
Nirvana
(Geffen) 2002
5x PLATINUM ALBUM
PIERCE THE VEIL
Collide with the Sky
(Fearless) 2012
GOLD ALBUM
YUNGBLUD
Yungblud
(Geffen) 2022
SILVER ALBUM
Attendance
AVRIL LAVIGNE
SIMPLE PLAN
WE THE KINGS
New York, NY: 13,039 / 13,039
$40 - $150 (tix) / $1.4M (gross)
Sources: Pollstar, ROSTR, Spotify, Misc.