In This Issue:
Spotify play counts for more than 50 big Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) singles released in the last year or two, including songs by Måneskin, SiM, Bad Omens, Rammstein, Falling In Reverse, Bring Me The Horizon, Paramore, Ghost, Sleep Token, Metallica, Five Finger Death Punch, Polyphia, Motionless In White, Slipknot, Pierce The Veil, I Prevail, Avenged Sevenfold, Korn, and more.
Recent booking agency, management, and record label signings.
Guns N’ Roses, Dan Vasc and this week’s top Hard Rock Digital Song Sales.
Aerosmith, HARDY, Seether, and this week’s Top Hard Rock Albums.1
Spotify - A Few (Recent) Big Singles
I looked only at Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) songs released in 2022 or 2023.
If a band released an album, I picked only the biggest song from that release
If they only released singles, I picked the biggest songs from each year
239M - Måneskin “SUPERMODEL” (2022)
112M - SiM “The Rumbling” (2022)
111M - Bad Omens “Just Pretend” (2022)
86M - Rammstein “Dicke Titten” (2022)
79M - Falling In Reverse “Watch The World…” (2023)
79M - Falling In Reverse “ZOMBIFIED” (2022)
73M - Bring Me The Horizon “sTraNgeRs” (2022)
66M - Paramore “This Is Why” (2023)
65M - Ghost “Call Me Little Sunshine” (2022)
59M - Jelly Roll “Need a Favor” (2023)
58M - Sleep Token “The Summoning” (2023)
53M - Metallica “Lux Aeterna” (2022)
44M - Five Finger Death Punch “Welcome…” (2022)
43M - Bring Me The Horizon “LosT” (2023)
43M - Polyphia “Playing God” (2022)
39M - Motionless In White “Masterpiece” (2022)
36M - Slipknot “The Dying Song” (2022)
35M - Pierce The Veil “Pass the Nirvana” (2023)
31M - I Prevail “Bad Things” (2022)
30M - Catch Your Breath “Dial Tone” (2023)
30M - Fall Out Boy “Love From The…” (2023)
24M - Shinedown “Planet Zero” (2022)
23M - SiM “Under The Tree” (2023)
20M - Avenged Sevenfold “Nobody” (2023)
20M - Disturbed “Hey You” (2022)
20M - Memphis May Fire “Blood & Water” (2022)
19M - Foo Fighters “Rescued” (2023)
18M - Beartooth “Riptide” (2022)
17M - Korn “Start the Healing” (2022)
14M - Lorna Shore “Pain Remains” (2022)
12M - Greta Van Fleet “Meeting the Master” (2023)
12M - Megadeth “We’ll Be Back” (2022)
11M - The Devil Wears Prada “Sacrifice” (2022)
10M - Sleeping With Sirens “Bloody Knuckles” (2022)
10M - From Ashes To New “Nightmare” (2023)
10M - In Flames “Meet Your Maker” (2023)
10M - Spiritbox “Rotoscope” (2022)
10M - Halestorm “Back from the Dead” (2022)
10M - Coheed and Cambria “Shoulders” (2022)
9M - Black Veil Brides “Saviour II” (2023)
9M - Make Them Suffer “Doomswitch” (2023)
9M - Godsmack “Surrender” (2023)
9M - BABYMETAL “Monocrhome” (2023)
9M - Atreyu “Drowning” (2023)
8M - Lamb Of God “Omens” (2022)
7M - QOTSA “Paper Machete” (2023)
7M - Asking Alexandria “Dark Void” (2023)
7M - BAND-MAID “Sense” (2022)
6M - Spiritbox “The Void” (2023)
6M - Avatar “The Dirt I’m Buried In” (2023)
6M - Alter Bridge “Silver Tongue” (2022)
6M - Machine Head “MY HANDS ARE EMPTY” (2022)
5M - The Hu “Black Thunder” (2023)
5M - Amon Amarth “Find a Way…” (2022)
4M - Bury Tomorrow “Abandon Us” (2023)
4M - Periphery “Wildfire” (2023)
4M - Fit For A King “Reaper” (2022)
3M - Mammoth WVH “Another Celebration…” (2023)
3M - August Burns Red “Ancestry” (2023)
3M - Orbit Culture “Vultures of North” (2023)
3M - Demon Hunter “HEAVEN DON’T CRY” (2022)
Recent Signings ✍🏻
Holy Wars with Rise Records & Pale Chord
Demi Lovato with Christian Carino at CAA
The Seafloor Cinema with Cupid Theory
Jon Pleeter (Saving Abel, Saliva) with Sound Talent Group
John Lashnits (The Front Bottoms, Basement) with STG
Hard Rock Digital Song Sales 🇺🇸
Guns N’ Roses “Perhaps” NEW
Queen “Fat Bottomed Girls” RE-ENTRY
Candlebox “Far Behind”
Dan Vasc “Amazing Grace”
Disturbed “The Sound of Silence”
Top Hard Rock Albums 🇺🇸
Aerosmith Greatest Hits (2023) NEW
Queen Greatest Hits (1981) 5x PLATINUM
HARDY The Mockingbird & The Crow (2023)
Guns N’ Roses Greatest Hits (2004) 5x PLATINUM
Nickelback The Best of Nickelback: Volume 1 (2013)
Foo Fighters Greatest Hits (2009) RE-ENTRY
Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection (2010) PLATINUM
Linkin Park Meteora (2003) 7x PLATINUM
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (2000) DIAMOND
Metallica Metallica (1991) DIAMOND
AC/DC Back in Black (1980) 3x DIAMOND
System of a Down Toxicity (2001) 6x PLATINUM
Korn Greatest Hits: Vol. 1 (2004) PLATINUM
Bad Omens The Death Of Peace Of Mind (2022)
System of a Down System of a Down (1998) 2x PLATINUM RE-ENTRY
Seether Vicennial: 2 Decades of Seether (2021)
Sleep Token Take Me Back To Eden (2023)
Motley Crue The Dirt (Soundtrack) (2019)
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971) 2x DIAMOND
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995) 9x PLATINUM
Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne (2003) 2x PLATINUM
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine (1991) 3x PLATINUM
Five Finger Death Punch A Decade of Destruction (2017)
Pearl Jam Ten (1991) DIAMOND
Creed Greatest Hits (2004) 2x PLATINUM
Sources: Billboard, Pollstar, ROSTR, Spotify, Misc.