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

Jun 28, 2022

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.

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

Queen 274.6M albums
Pink Floyd 235.8M
Led Zeppelin 205.6M
AC/DC 198.6M
Metallica 163.6M
Bon Jovi 149.9M
Aerosmith 133.4M
Guns N’ Roses 124.1M
Van Halen 102M
Red Hot Chili Peppers 99.6M
Nirvana 95.8M
Deep Purple 92.8M
Linkin Park 90.9M
Green Day 88.9M
Iron Maiden 88.6M
Journey 82.1M
Black Sabbath 79.2M
Meat Loaf 62.5M
Nickelback 56.9M
Ozzy Osbourne 52.8M
Avril Lavigne 47.1M
The Cranberries 46.6M
Foo Fighters 43.9M
No Doubt 35.7M
Evanescence 31.9M

Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs

Week of July 2, 2022

This is finally almost here.

Falling In Reverse “Voices In My Head”
Falling In Reverse “ZOMBIFIED”
HARDY “Sold Out”
FFDP “AfterLife”
Giovannie “Ramon Ayala”
Three Days Grace “Lifetime”
I Prevail “Bodybag” NEW
My Chem “The Foundations…”
I Prevail “Body Bag” NEW
TDG “So Called Life”
Ghost “Call Me Little Sunshine”
FFDP “Welcome To The Circus”
Loveless “Middle Of The Night”
Shinedown “Planet Zero”
SiM “The Rumbling”
DOROTHY “Rest In Peace”
Papa Roach “Kill The Noise”
Bad Wolves “If Tomorrow Never…”
Bad Omens “Like A Villain”
Turnstile “MYSTERY”
From Ashes To New “Heartache” NEW
Kid Rock “We The People”
Halestorm “The Steeple”
Motionless In White “Sign Of Life”
FFDP “IOU”

SiriusXM Liquid Metal

June 14 - June 21, 2022

Demon Hunter 📸: Darren Craig

Soulfly “Superstition”
Parkway Drive “Glitch”
Lamb Of God “Nevermore”
Demon Hunter “FREEDOM IS DEAD”
In Flames “State of Slow Decay”
Meshuggah “The Abysmal Eye”
Malevolence “On Broken Glass”
Arch Enemy “Deceiver, Deceiver”
Unto Others “Heroin”
Rammstein “Angst”
Upon A Burning Body “A New…”
Undeath “Rise from the Grave”
Jinjer “Call Me A Symbol”
Paledusk “SLAY!!”
Lorna Shore “Sun//Eater”
Bad Omens “Artificial Suicide”
Amon Amarth “Put Your Back Into…”
Allegation “Of Beasts and Worms”
Bloodywood “Dana-Dan”
Spiritbox “Circle With Me”
Veil Of Maya “Synthwave Vegan”
Suicide Silence “Thinking in Tongues”
ONI “Secrets” ft. Iggy Pop, Randy Blythe
Municipal Waste “Grave Dive”
Machine Head “Choke on the Ashes…”

Hard Rock Digital Song Sales

Week of July 2, 2022

From Ashes To New “Heartache” NEW
AC/DC “Thunderstruck”
GN’R “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
I Prevail “Body Bag” NEW
Falling In Reverse “Voices In My Head”
FFDP “Welcome To The Circus”
Spiritbox “Rotoscope” NEW
Queen “We Will Rock You”
Spiritbox “Hysteria” NEW
Spiritbox “Sew Me Up” NEW
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Metallica “Enter Sandman”
Bon Jovi “Livin’ On A Prayer”
AC/DC “Back in Black”
Lorna Shore “Into The Earth”
Disturbed “The Sound of Silence”
GN’R “Welcome to the Jungle”
Queen “Another One Bites…”
AC/DC “You Shook Me…”
Queen “We Are The Champions”
Queen “Don’t Stop Me Now”
TDG “Lifetime”
Motley Crue “Kickstart My Heart”
FFDP “AfterLife”
Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train”

Apple Music

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Motionless Scoring…
Nirvana Nevermind
Pink Floyd Dark Side…
Journey Greatest Hits
FFDP AfterLife
Jelly Roll Ballads…
AC/DC Back in Black
LINKIN PARK Hybrid Theory
Porcupine Tree CLOSURE
Nickelback All the Right Reasons
Pink Floyd The Wall
GN’R Appetite
SOAD Toxicity
Metallica Metallica
Alexisonfire Otherness
Weezer Weezer
Kid Rock Bad Reputation
TOOL Fear Inoculum
LINKIN PARK Meteora
Metallica Ride The Lightning
Queen The Platinum Collection
Shinedown Planet Zero
My Chem Three Cheers…
Alice In Chains Dirt
Bad Omens THE DEATH…
Turnstile GLOW ON
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Deftones Around the Fur
Pearl Jam Ten
MMF Remade in Misery
TDG One-X
Greta Van Fleet The Battle…
Ghost IMPERA
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Creed Greatest Hits
TDG EXPLOSIONS
TOOL Anima
I Prevail TRAUMA
TOOL Lateralus
Def Lep Hysteria
TOOL 10,000 Days
Metallica Master of Puppets
Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet
Def Lep Diamond Star Halos
Audioslave Audioslave
Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
Metallica …And Justice for All
Slipknot Slipknot
Deftones White Pony
Nickelback Dark Horse
Rammstein Zeit
Greta From the Fires
Kid Rock Devil
ZillaKami DOG BOY
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Blink-182 Enema of the State
Pink Floyd Animals
Spiritbox Eternal Blue
RATM Rage Against The Machine
INK Welcome to Horrorwood
Alice In Chains Jar of Flies EP
Motley Crue The Dirt Soundtrack
Van Halen Van Halen
Evanescence Fallen
Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
Shinedown Sound of Madness
LINKIN PARK Minutes
Godsmack When Legends Rise
BMTH That’s the Spirit
Daughtry Daughtry
NOTHING MORE Spirits
BMTH POST HUMAN
FFDP F8
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare
A Day To Remember Homesick
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon…
BMTH Sempiternal
State Champs Kings…
Motley Crue Greatest Hits
WCAR Darkbloom
FFDP Decade of Destruction
Papa Roach Ego Trip
Wage War Manic
Staind Break the Cycle
Breaking Benjamin Phobia
Alice In Chains MTV Unplugged
Skillet Awake
Dayseeker Sleeptalk
D.R.U.G.S. D.R.U.G.S.
Def Lep Pyromania
Shinedown ATTENTION
Metallica Kill ‘Em All
Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Falling In Reverse The Drug…
TDWP Color Decay
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish
Disturbed The Sickness
Loveless Loveless I
Slipknot Iowa
RATM Evil Empire
Motionless In White Disguise
Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter
Slipknot Vol. 3
Blink-182 Take Off Your…
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Slipknot All Hope is Gone
Deftones Diamond Eyes
ADTR You’re Welcome
Greta Anthem of the Peaceful…
Halestorm Back from the Dead
Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man
Avril Lavigne Let Go
ICE NINE KILLS Silver Scream
Shinedown Threat to Survival
Alestorm Seventh Rum…
Breaking Benjamin Ember
Limp Bizkit STILL SUCKS
A7X Avenged Sevenfold
Disturbed Immortalized
Deftones Ohms
Chevelle Wonder What’s Next
Alice In Chains Facelift
Korn Requiem
Metallia Load
FFDP And Justice for None
Pink Floyd The Division Bell
Skillet Dominion
Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King
GN’R Use Your Illusion II
RATM The Battle of Los Angeles
TOOL Undertow
Slaughter To Prevail Kostolom
Our Last Night Empires Fall EP
SOAD Mezmerize
Kid Rock Cocky
Dance Gavin Dance Mothership

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