Sabaton, Ghost, System Of A Down

Spotify Charts, YouTube Charts, Song Charts, BRIT Certifications

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In This Issue:

System Of A Down adds a song to the 100M Rock Club.

Linkin Park, Queen, Nirvana, Metallica, Green Day, Deftones, Paramore, Pierce The Veil, and this week’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) artists on Spotify.

First-week sales, downloads, and streams in Germany for the latest releases from Ghost, Machine Head, LANDMVRKS, Eluveitie, Caliban, and Sacred Steel.

Fall Out Boy, Ghost, PVRIS, Sum 41, and Twenty One Pilots earn new BRIT sales certifications.

This week’s most popular Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube, including Sleep Token, Sabaton, Mammoth, Sammy Hagar, and more.

Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (streaming, sales, airplay), including Sleep Token, Evanescence, Papa Roach, Halestorm, Volbeat, and more.

Plus, this week’s Top Hard Rock Albums, Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, and Mainstream Rock airplay in the United States.¹

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Agency Signings ✍🏻

• Kerosene Heights w/ Sound Talent

• The Pogues w/ Wasserman

• Soft Blue Shimmer w/ Sound Talent

• Split Persona w/ Obelisk

Management Signings ✍🏻

• Cold Steel w/ Diamond City

• Raue w/ 5B

Record Label Signing ✍🏻

• SUCKERPUNCH! w/ Nettwerk

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100M Rock Club

Latest Addition

SYSTEM OF A DOWN
“Suite-Pee”
System Of A Down
(Sony Music) 1998

Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎

Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish)

1. Linkin Park (No. 28 overall)

2. Radiohead (No. 75)

3. Queen (No. 95)

4. Twenty One Pilots (No. 98)

5. Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 107)

6. System Of A Down (No. 113)

7. Nirvana (No. 131)

8. Metallica (No. 132)

9. Green Day (No. 141)

10. AC/DC (No. 166)

11. Sleep Token (No. 189)

12. Deftones (No. 198)

Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸

Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish)

1. Linkin Park (No. 54 overall)

2. Jelly Roll (No. 55)

3. Radiohead (No. 59)

4. Sleep Token (No. 69)

5. Deftones (No. 76)

6. Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 102)

7. Nirvana (No. 114)

8. Paramore (No. 123)

9. Twenty One Pilots (No. 129)

10. Green Day (No. 133)

11. Metallica (No. 137)

12. Nickelback (No. 144)

13. Fall Out Boy (No. 146)

14. System Of A Down (No. 159)

15. Sublime (No. 167)

16. Queen (No. 176)

17. Alice In Chains (No. 177)

18. Three Days Grace (No. 179)

19. HARDY (No. 181)

20. AC/DC (No. 188)

21. Pierce The Veil (No. 189)

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Avril Lavigne & Simple Plan, Battle Beast, Caskets, Full Of Hell, Garbage, Halsey & Amy Lee, Katatonia, Of Mice & Men, Orbit Culture, Our Last Night, Parkway Drive, Pierce The Veil, Pig Pen, Shinedown, Sleep Token, Three Days Grace, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.

Top 50 Hard Rock & Metal Music Videos 🇺🇸

YouTube’s most popular Hard Rock & Metal music videos this week.

1. Sleep Token "Damocles"

2. Linkin Park "In the End"

3. Linkin Park "Numb"

4. Disturbed "The Sound of Silence"

5. System Of A Down "Chop Suey!"

6. Metallica "Nothing Else Matters"

7. Sleep Token "Emergence"

8. Sleep Token "Caramel"

9. Five Finger Death Punch "Wash It All Away"

10. Rob Zombie "Dragula"

11. Ghost "Peacefield"

12. Bad Wolves "Zombie"

13. Sabaton "Templars"

14. Drowning Pool "Bodies"

15. TOOL "Sober"

16. Linkin Park "Up From the Bottom"

17. Avenged Sevenfold "Hail to the King"

18. Evanescence "Afterlife"

19. Slipknot "Duality"

20. Pantera "Walk"

21. Linkin Park "Unshatter"

22. White Zombie "Thunder Kiss '65"

23. Deftones "Change (In the House of Flies)"

24. Slipknot "The Devil in I"

25. Slipknot "Before I Forget"

26. Mammoth "The End"

27. Deftones "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)"

28. Ghost "Satanized"

29. Ghost "Peacefield"

30. Slaughter To Prevail "RUSSIAN GRIZZLY IN AMERICA"

31. System Of A Down "B.Y.O.B."

32. Ghost "Umbra"

33. BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy "RATATATA"

34. Linkin Park "Given Up"

35. Deftones "Sextape"

36. BABYMETAL & Poppy "from me to u"

37. Kid Rock "Bawitdaba"

38. Disturbed "I Will Not Break"

39. Ghost "Marks Of The Evil One"

40. Sleep Token "Chokehold"

41. Incubus "Pardon Me"

42. Rammstein "Deutschland"

43. Ghost "De Profundis Borealis"

44. AJ Dispirito "BITE ME"

45. Deftones "Passenger"

46. Electric Callboy "Elevator Operator"

47. Linkin Park "Two Faced"

48. Deftones "My Own Summer (Shove It)"

49. Ghost "Cenotaph"

50. Linkin Park "Heavy Is the Crown"

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Top 50 Rock Music Videos 🇺🇸

This week’s ranking of the most popular Rock music videos on YouTube.

1. AC/DC "Thunderstruck"

2. Eagles "Hotel California (Live)"

3. Audioslave "Like a Stone"

4. The Outfield "Your Love"

5. 3 Doors Down "Here Without You"

6. The Police "Every Breath You Take"

7. Staind "It's Been Awhile"

8. Evanescence "Bring Me To Life"

9. Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine"

10. The Cranberries "Zombie"

11. Bon Jovi "Livin' On A Prayer"

12. Creedence Clearwater Revival "Have You Ever Seen the Rain"

13. Guns N' Roses "November Rain"

14. Kiss "I Was Made For Lovin' You"

15. Creed "One Last Breath"

16. Kid Rock "Only God Knows Why"

17. Lynyrd Skynyrd "Simple Man"

18. Starship "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"

19. Player "Baby Come Back"

20. Ram Jam "Black Betty"

21. Foreigner "I Want to Know What Love Is"

22. Kid Rock "All Summer Long"

23. Counting Crows "Mr. Jones"

24. Seether "Broken"

25. Shinedown "MONSTERS"

26. The Rolling Stones "Paint It Black"

27. Hoobastank "The Reason"

28. Norman Greenbaum "Spirit in the Sky"

29. Sammy Hagar "Encore, Thank You, Goodnight."

30. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Otherside"

31. The Traveling Wilburys "End Of The Line"

32. Eagles "Hotel California"

33. Shinedown "A Symptom Of Being Human"

34. R.E.M. "Losing My Religion"

35. Alice In Chains "Man in the Box"

36. AC/DC "Highway to Hell"

37. Guns N' Roses "Paradise City"

38. Eagles "Lyin' Eyes"

39. Simple Minds "Don't You (Forget About Me)"

40. Ghost "Lachryma"

41. Eagles "Take It to the Limit"

42. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Scar Tissue"

43. Tom Petty "Mary Jane's Last Dance"

44. The Beatles "Let It Be"

45. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band "Night Moves"

46. Breaking Benjamin "So Cold"

47. Evanescence "My Immortal"

48. Fleetwood Mac "Gypsy"

49. Benson Boone "Bohemian Rhapsody (Live)"

50. Breaking Benjamin "The Diary of Jane"

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Top Hard Rock Albums 🇺🇸

Sales & Streaming, Current & Catalog

1. Ghost Skeleta NEW

2. Nickelback The Best of Nickelback: Volume 1

3. Queen Greatest Hits

4. Creed Greatest Hits

5. Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits

6. Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden

7. Linkin Park Meteora

8. Linkin Park Hybrid Theory

9. Aerosmith Greatest Hits

10. System Of A Down Toxicity

11. Metallica Metallica

12. AC/DC Back in Black

13. Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection

14. 3 Doors Down The Greatest Hits

15. Korn Greatest Hits Vol. I

16. Alice In Chains Dirt

17. Three Days Grace One-X

18. Evanescence Fallen

19. Motley Crue Greatest Hits

20. Linkin Park Papercuts

21. Pearl Jam Ten

22. Deftones Around the Fur

23. Led Zeppelin Mothership RE-ENTRY

24. HARDY the mockingbird & THE CROW

25. Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine

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Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs 🇺🇸

Streaming, Sales, Airplay

1. Sleep Token “Damocles” NEW

2. Sleep Token “Caramel”

3. Sleep Token “Emergence”

4. Ghost “Peacefield”

5. Linkin Park “Up from the Bottom”

6. Linkin Park “Unshatter” NEW

7. Linkin Park “The Emptiness Machine”

8. Evanescence “Afterlife”

9. Linkin Park “Heavy is the Crown”

10. Ghost “Lachryma”

11. Ghost “Satanized”

12. Disturbed “I Will Not Break”

13. Dayseeker “Pale Moonlight” NEW

14. Papa Roach “Even If It Kills Me”

15. Ghost “Guiding Lights” NEW

16. Ghost “Marks of the Evil One” NEW

17. Ghost “Umbra” NEW

18. Ghost “De Profundis Borealis” NEW

19. Ghost “Missilia Amori” NEW

20. Ghost “Cenotaph” NEW

21. HARDY “Jim Bob”

22. Halestorm “Darkness Always Wins” NEW

23. Three Days Grace “Mayday”

24. Sabaton “Templars” NEW

25. Volbeat “By A Monster’s Hand”

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Hard Rock Digital Song Sales 🇺🇸

1. Sleep Token “Damocles” NEW

2. Sammy Hagar “Encore. Thank You. Goodnight.” NEW

3. Linkin Park “Unshatter” NEW

4. Sabaton “Templars” NEW

5. AC/DC “Thunderstruck”

6. Disturbed “The Sound of Silence”

7. Linkin Park “Up from the Bottom” RE-ENTRY

8. Metallica “Enter Sandman”

9. Creed “One Last Breath”

10. Sleep Token “Caramel”

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Mainstream Rock Airplay 🇺🇸

1. Disturbed “I Will Not Break”

2. Volbeat “By a Monster’s Hand”

3. Linkin Park “Up from the Bottom”

4. Wage War “Blur”

5. NOTHING MORE “House On Sand” ft. Eric Vanlerberghe

6. The Funeral Portrait “Holy Water” ft. Ivan Moody

7. Ghost “Satanized”

8. Papa Roach “Even If It Kills Me”

9. Sleep Token “Emergence”

10. Billy Morrison & Ozzy Osbourne “Gods of Rock N’ Roll” ft. Steve Stevens

11. HARDY “Jim Bob”

12. Killswitch Engage “I Believe”

13. Evanescence “Afterlife”

14. Spiritbox “Perfect Soul”

15. Chevelle “Rabbit Hole (Cowards Pt. 1)”

16. Pop Evil “Wishful Thinking”

17. DOROTHY “Tombstone Town” ft. Slash

18. Shinedown “Dance, Kid, Dance”

19. Architects “Everything Ends”

20. Green Day “One Eyed Bastard”

21. Hollywood Undead “Hollywood Forever”

22. Sleep Theory “Static”

23. A Day To Remember “All My Friends”

24. Poppy “The Cost of Giving Up”

25. Badflower “Paws”

26. Giovnnie And The Hired Guns “Quitter”

27. Halestorm “Darkness Always Wins”

28. Return To Dust “Belly Up”

29. P.O.D. “I Won’t Bow Down” ft. Andres Gimenez

30. The Nocturnal Affair “Cross Me Out”

31. Underoath “All the Love is Gone”

32. Doobie “Worth a Shot”

33. Palaye Royale “Addicted to the Wasteland”

34. Eric Bass Presents “Goodnight Goodnight”

35. The Haunt & Escape The Fate “Masochistic Lovers”

36. The Devil Wears Prada “For You” NEW

37. BRKN LOVE “Pulling Leeches”

38. Shinedown “Three Six Five”

39. Nathan James “Alienation”

40. Scott Stapp “Deadman’s Trigger” NEW

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BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧

FALL OUT BOY
“Irresistible” ft. Demi Lovato
(Island) 2015
GOLD SINGLE

GHOST
Meliora
(Spinefarm) 2015
SILVER ALBUM

PVRIS
“White Noise”
(Rise Records) 2014
GOLD SINGLE

SUM 41
“Still Waiting”
(Mercury) 2002
GOLD SINGLE

TWENTY ONE PILOTS
“Heavydirtysoul”
(Atlantic/FBR) 2015
GOLD SINGLE

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GERMAN SALES 🇩🇪

Last week’s charts/sales

No. 1
GHOST
9582 Physical
743 Downloads
1.7M Premium Streams

No. 5
MACHINE HEAD
1996 Physical
253 Downloads
515k Premium Streams

No. 6
LANDMVRKS
1302 Physical
105 Downloads
820k Premium Streams

No. 16
ELUVEITIE
1008 Physical
170 Downloads
237k Premium Streams

No. 33
CALIBAN
759 Physical
74 Downloads
205k Premium Streams

No. 99
SACRED STEEL
434 Physical
15 Downloads
8k Premium Streams

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1. Sources: Billboard, BPI, ROSTR, Spotify, YouTube, Misc.