Queen, AC/DC, Metallica

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

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.¹

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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. 

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 

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