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The Top 25 Best Selling Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) Artists of All-Time

Ryan J. Downey
Jun 28, 2022
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Metallica 2004 📸: James Minchin III, Metallica.com

In this issue:

The Top 25 Best Selling Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) Artists of All-Time, factoring in traditional album sales, streaming equivalent albums, and singles.

Falling In Reverse holds the top two spots on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs for a fourth consecutive week with “Voices in My Head” and “ZOMBIFIED.” There’s a new entry from I Prevail with “Body Bag” debuting at No. 7.

Sirius XM Liquid Metal’s Top 25 this week, including Soulfly, Parkway Drive, Lamb Of God, Demon Hunter, In Flames, Meshuggah, and more.

This week’s Top 25 Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, where From Ashes To New debuts at No. 1 with “Heartache.”

The Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) albums on Apple Music as of yesterday, including Coheed And Cambria, Alexisonfire, and dozens more.

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Best Selling Artists Of All-Time 

Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) 

These totals include studio albums, sales of compilations generated thanks to the albums, sales of physical singles from the albums, sales of digital singles from the albums, and streaming equivalent album sales of all the album tracks, including audio and visual. These are totaled into something called “CSPC” at Chartmasters.org, if you’d like to know more about the methodology. They haven’t calculated a CSPC number for every artist in the world yet, so there are some key artists missing from this list — Def Leppard and KISS, for example.

QUEEN, 1981 📸: Lord Snowdon
  1. Queen 274.6M albums

  2. Pink Floyd 235.8M 

  3. Led Zeppelin 205.6M 

  4. AC/DC 198.6M 

  5. Metallica 163.6M 

  6. Bon Jovi 149.9M 

  7. Aerosmith 133.4M 

  8. Guns N’ Roses 124.1M 

  9. Van Halen 102M 

  10. Red Hot Chili Peppers 99.6M 

  11. Nirvana 95.8M 

  12. Deep Purple 92.8M 

  13. Linkin Park 90.9M 

  14. Green Day 88.9M 

  15. Iron Maiden 88.6M 

  16. Journey 82.1M 

  17. Black Sabbath 79.2M 

  18. Meat Loaf 62.5M 

  19. Nickelback 56.9M 

  20. Ozzy Osbourne 52.8M 

  21. Avril Lavigne 47.1M 

  22. The Cranberries 46.6M 

  23. Foo Fighters 43.9M 

  24. No Doubt 35.7M 

  25. Evanescence 31.9M 


Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs 

Week of July 2, 2022 

This is finally almost here.
  1. Falling In Reverse “Voices In My Head” 

  2. Falling In Reverse “ZOMBIFIED” 

  3. HARDY “Sold Out” 

  4. FFDP “AfterLife” 

  5. Giovannie “Ramon Ayala” 

  6. Three Days Grace “Lifetime” 

  7. I Prevail “Bodybag” NEW

  8. My Chem “The Foundations…” 

  9. I Prevail “Body Bag” NEW 

  10. TDG “So Called Life” 

  11. Ghost “Call Me Little Sunshine” 

  12. FFDP “Welcome To The Circus” 

  13. Loveless “Middle Of The Night” 

  14. Shinedown “Planet Zero” 

  15. SiM “The Rumbling” 

  16. DOROTHY “Rest In Peace” 

  17. Papa Roach “Kill The Noise” 

  18. Bad Wolves “If Tomorrow Never…” 

  19. Bad Omens “Like A Villain” 

  20. Turnstile “MYSTERY” 

  21. From Ashes To New “Heartache” NEW 

  22. Kid Rock “We The People” 

  23. Halestorm “The Steeple” 

  24. Motionless In White “Sign Of Life” 

  25. FFDP “IOU” 


SiriusXM Liquid Metal 

June 14 - June 21, 2022 

Demon Hunter 📸: Darren Craig
  1. Soulfly “Superstition” 

  2. Parkway Drive “Glitch” 

  3. Lamb Of God “Nevermore” 

  4. Demon Hunter “FREEDOM IS DEAD” 

  5. In Flames “State of Slow Decay” 

  6. Meshuggah “The Abysmal Eye” 

  7. Malevolence “On Broken Glass” 

  8. Arch Enemy “Deceiver, Deceiver” 

  9. Unto Others “Heroin” 

  10. Rammstein “Angst” 

  11. Upon A Burning Body “A New…” 

  12. Undeath “Rise from the Grave” 

  13. Jinjer “Call Me A Symbol” 

  14. Paledusk “SLAY!!” 

  15. Lorna Shore “Sun//Eater” 

  16. Bad Omens “Artificial Suicide” 

  17. Amon Amarth “Put Your Back Into…” 

  18. Allegation “Of Beasts and Worms” 

  19. Bloodywood “Dana-Dan” 

  20. Spiritbox “Circle With Me” 

  21. Veil Of Maya “Synthwave Vegan” 

  22. Suicide Silence “Thinking in Tongues” 

  23. ONI “Secrets” ft. Iggy Pop, Randy Blythe 

  24. Municipal Waste “Grave Dive” 

  25. Machine Head “Choke on the Ashes…” 


Hard Rock Digital Song Sales 

Week of July 2, 2022 

  1. From Ashes To New “Heartache” NEW 

  2. AC/DC “Thunderstruck” 

  3. GN’R “Sweet Child O’ Mine” 

  4. I Prevail “Body Bag” NEW 

  5. Falling In Reverse “Voices In My Head” 

  6. FFDP “Welcome To The Circus” 

  7. Spiritbox “Rotoscope” NEW 

  8. Queen “We Will Rock You” 

  9. Spiritbox “Hysteria” NEW 

  10. Spiritbox “Sew Me Up” NEW 

  11. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” 

  12. Metallica “Enter Sandman” 

  13. Bon Jovi “Livin’ On A Prayer” 

  14. AC/DC “Back in Black” 

  15. Lorna Shore “Into The Earth” 

  16. Disturbed “The Sound of Silence” 

  17. GN’R “Welcome to the Jungle” 

  18. Queen “Another One Bites…” 

  19. AC/DC “You Shook Me…” 

  20. Queen “We Are The Champions” 

  21. Queen “Don’t Stop Me Now” 

  22. TDG “Lifetime” 

  23. Motley Crue “Kickstart My Heart” 

  24. FFDP “AfterLife” 

  25. Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train” 


Apple Music

Top Hard Rock/Metal

June 27, 2022 

Coheed And Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
  1. Coheed Vaxis II 

  2. Motionless Scoring… 

  3. Nirvana Nevermind 

  4. Pink Floyd Dark Side… 

  5. Journey Greatest Hits 

  6. FFDP AfterLife 

  7. Jelly Roll Ballads… 

  8. AC/DC Back in Black 

  9. LINKIN PARK Hybrid Theory

  10. Porcupine Tree CLOSURE 

  11. Nickelback All the Right Reasons 

  12. Pink Floyd The Wall 

  13. GN’R Appetite

  14. SOAD Toxicity 

  15. Metallica Metallica 

  16. Alexisonfire Otherness 

  17. Weezer Weezer 

  18. Kid Rock Bad Reputation 

  19. TOOL Fear Inoculum 

  20. LINKIN PARK Meteora 

  21. Metallica Ride The Lightning 

  22. Queen The Platinum Collection 

  23. Shinedown Planet Zero 

  24. My Chem Three Cheers… 

  25. Alice In Chains Dirt 

  26. Bad Omens THE DEATH… 

  27. Turnstile GLOW ON

  28. Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here 

  29. Deftones Around the Fur 

  30. Pearl Jam Ten 

  31. MMF Remade in Misery 

  32. TDG One-X 

  33. Greta Van Fleet The Battle…

  34. Ghost IMPERA 

  35. Black Sabbath Paranoid 

  36. Creed Greatest Hits 

  37. TDG EXPLOSIONS 

  38. TOOL Anima 

  39. I Prevail TRAUMA 

  40. TOOL Lateralus 

  41. Def Lep Hysteria 

  42. TOOL 10,000 Days 

  43. Metallica Master of Puppets 

  44. Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet 

  45. Def Lep Diamond Star Halos 

  46. Audioslave Audioslave 

  47. Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV 

  48. Metallica …And Justice for All 

  49. Slipknot Slipknot 

  50. Deftones White Pony 

  51. Nickelback Dark Horse 

  52. Rammstein Zeit 

  53. Greta From the Fires 

  54. Kid Rock Devil 

  55. ZillaKami DOG BOY 

  56. Deftones Saturday Night Wrist 

  57. Blink-182 Enema of the State 

  58. Pink Floyd Animals 

  59. Spiritbox Eternal Blue 

  60. RATM Rage Against The Machine 

  61. INK Welcome to Horrorwood 

  62. Alice In Chains Jar of Flies EP 

  63. Motley Crue The Dirt Soundtrack

  64. Van Halen Van Halen 

  65. Evanescence Fallen 

  66. Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II 

  67. Zeppelin Led Zeppelin

  68. Shinedown Sound of Madness

  69. LINKIN PARK Minutes 

  70. Godsmack When Legends Rise 

  71. BMTH That’s the Spirit 

  72. Daughtry Daughtry 

  73. NOTHING MORE Spirits 

  74. BMTH POST HUMAN 

  75. FFDP F8 

  76. Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare 

  77. A Day To Remember Homesick 

  78. Smashing Pumpkins Mellon…

  79. BMTH Sempiternal 

  80. State Champs Kings… 

  81. Motley Crue Greatest Hits 

  82. WCAR Darkbloom 

  83. FFDP Decade of Destruction 

  84. Papa Roach Ego Trip 

  85. Wage War Manic 

  86. Staind Break the Cycle 

  87. Breaking Benjamin Phobia 

  88. Alice In Chains MTV Unplugged 

  89. Skillet Awake 

  90. Dayseeker Sleeptalk 

  91. D.R.U.G.S. D.R.U.G.S. 

  92. Def Lep Pyromania 

  93. Shinedown ATTENTION 

  94. Metallica Kill ‘Em All 

  95. Zeppelin Physical Graffiti 

  96. Falling In Reverse The Drug… 

  97. TDWP Color Decay 

  98. Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish 

  99. Disturbed The Sickness 

  100. Loveless Loveless I 

  101. Slipknot Iowa 

  102. RATM Evil Empire 

  103. Motionless In White Disguise 

  104. Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter 

  105. Slipknot Vol. 3 

  106. Blink-182 Take Off Your… 

  107. Smashing Pumpkins Siamese 

  108. Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind 

  109. Deftones Koi No Yokan 

  110. Slipknot All Hope is Gone 

  111. Deftones Diamond Eyes 

  112. ADTR You’re Welcome 

  113. Greta Anthem of the Peaceful…

  114. Halestorm Back from the Dead 

  115. Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man 

  116. Avril Lavigne Let Go 

  117. ICE NINE KILLS Silver Scream 

  118. Shinedown Threat to Survival 

  119. Alestorm Seventh Rum… 

  120. Breaking Benjamin Ember 

  121. Limp Bizkit STILL SUCKS 

  122. A7X Avenged Sevenfold 

  123. Disturbed Immortalized 

  124. Deftones Ohms 

  125. Chevelle Wonder What’s Next 

  126. Alice In Chains Facelift 

  127. Korn Requiem 

  128. Metallia Load 

  129. FFDP And Justice for None 

  130. Pink Floyd The Division Bell 

  131. Skillet Dominion 

  132. Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King 

  133. GN’R Use Your Illusion II 

  134. RATM The Battle of Los Angeles 

  135. TOOL Undertow 

  136. Slaughter To Prevail Kostolom 

  137. Our Last Night Empires Fall EP

  138. SOAD Mezmerize 

  139. Kid Rock Cocky 

  140. Dance Gavin Dance Mothership 


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