Queen + Metallica Top 2019 Sales
Plus: UK Albums Chart, Kiss, Tool, Post Office vs. the Music Biz & more...
Queen + Metallica Top 2019 Album Sales List
Queen and Metallica made more from selling records than anyone else last year, according to a Billboard report collecting The Highest Paid Musicians of 2019. Kiss, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Aerosmith, and Tool also made appearances on Billboard’s various Money Makers lists, written up by veteran journalist Ed Christman.
Read my report over at Loudwire.
Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs
The week of August 22, 2020
Five Finger Death Punch “A Little Bit Off”
The Hu “Wolf Totem” ft. Jacoby Shaddix
Shinedown “Atlas Falls”
The Pretty Reckless “Death by Rock and Roll”
Metallica / SFSO “All Within My Hands”
Bring Me The Horizon “Parasite Eve”
Seether “Dangerous”
Cory Marks “Outlaws”
Godsmack “Unforgettable”
I Prevail “Every Time You Leave” ft. Delaney Jane
Motionless In White “Another Life”
Gojira “Another World”
Volbeat “Leviathan”
Corey Taylor “Black Eyes Blue”
Three Days Grace “Somebody That I Used to Know”
jxdn “Comatose”
Starset “Trials”
Bush “Flowers On a Grave”
A Day To Remember “Resentment”
Hollywood Undead “Idol” ft. Tech N9ne
Marilyn Manson “We Are Chaos”
Pop Evil “Work”
Asking Alexandria “Antisocialist”
I Prevail x Joyner Lucas “DOA”
Badflower “DOA”
‘Why Is My Package In New Jersey?’ Vinyl Sellers Sound the Alarm
Under normal circumstances, the Soundgarden box set and Bob Dylan album that Steve Stevenson sent from his record store in Oakland to a customer in Ashland, KY, might take five to seven days. But on July 29, after Stevenson shipped the package via U.S. Postal Service, it traveled to San Francisco, then Cincinnati, followed by Charleston, W.V., before reaching its final destination on Aug. 17.
Read the story at Billboard.
AWAL says ‘hundreds’ of its artists now earn $100k+ a year from streaming
Bob Lefsetz wrote about this Music Ally story. You all get the Lefsetz Letter, right?
UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart
14 August 2020 - 20 August 2020
Deep Purple, Whoosh
Stand Atlantic, Pink Elephant
Stooges, Live at Goose Lake
Avatar, Hunter Gatherer
Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Creeper, Sex Death & The Infinite Void
Nirvana, Nevermind
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV
Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction
Rews, Warriors
Blue Oyster Cult, 45th Anniversary - Live in London
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
The Offspring, Americana
Nirvana, Unplugged in New York
Neck Deep, All Distortions Are Intentional
Foo Fighters, Greatest Hits
Green Day, American Idiot
Pearl Jam, Ten
Pearl Jam, Gigaton
AC/DC, Back in Black
Guns N’ Roses, Greatest Hits
Black Sabbath, The Ultimate Collection
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Ozzy Osbourne, Ordinary Man
Protest The Hero, Palimpsest
Pink Floyd, The Wall
Steve Hackett, 5 Classic Albums
Deep Purple, Infinite
Dio, 5 Classic Albums
Nirvana, In Utero
Fall Out Boy, Believers Never Die Vol. 2
My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade
Rage Against The Machine, Rage Against The Machine
Rick Wakeman, 5 Classic Albums
Metallica, Metallica
Five Finger Death Punch, F8
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II
My Chemical Romance, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Massive Wagons, House of Noise
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