In This Issue:
Linkin Park, Metallica, Fall Out Boy, Deftones, and this week’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) Artists on Spotify worldwide and in the United States.
Bad Omens, Sleep Token, The Amity Affliction, and this week’s Top 25 Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube in the United States.
Falling In Reverse, Staind, Beartooth, and Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs.
Recent attendance in the United States and Europe for Panic! At The Disco; Yungblud, Neck Deep; All Time Low; I Prevail, Trash Boat, Blind Channel; The Wonder Years, Hot Mulligan; Demon Hunter; The Winery Dogs; Queensrÿche, Marty Friedman; Botch; Lorna Shore, Shadow Of Intent, Brand Of Sacrifice; Knuckle Puck, Real Friends; Bodysnatcher; Ace Frehley; Escape The Fate; Gideon; The Spill Canvas; ‘68; Drug Church; Comeback Kid, and more.
More sales figures and rankings from Record Store Day 2023.1
Spotify Weekly Top Artists🌍
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 50 overall)
Queen (No. 70)
Metallica (No. 86)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 114)
Nirvana (No. 144)
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 68)
Metallica (No. 86)
Fall Out Boy (No. 103)
Deftones (No. 107)
Nirvana (No. 123)
Queen (No. 124)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 128)
Machine Gun Kelly (No. 155)
Blink-182 (No. 163)
Panic! At The Disco (No. 175)
AC/DC (No. 178)
Led Zeppelin (No. 190)
Top 25 Hard Rock & Metal Music Videos United States
This week’s ranking of the most popular Hard Rock & Metal videos on YouTube.
Linkin Park “Lost”
Three Days Grace “Animal I Have Become”
Bad Omens “Just Pretend”
Daughtry ft. Lzzy Hale “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”
Sleep Token “The Summoning”
Bad Omens “THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND”
Linkin Park “Fighting Myself”
Metallica “Inamorata”
I Prevail “Bad Things”
Limp Bizkit “Nookie”
Motionless In White “Werewolf”
Dan Vasc “The Sound Of Silence”
Disturbed “Down With The Sickness”
Linkin Park “Papercut”
Avenged Sevenfold “Nobody”
Metallica “72 Seasons”
Electric Callboy “Tekkno Train”
Sleep Token “Alkaline”
Linkin Park “Burn It Down”
Zakk Wylde “Lost Prayer”
Deftones “Sextape”
Peyton Parrish “Valhalla Calling”
Incubus “Pardon Me”
The Amity Affliction & them “Not Without My Ghosts”
Sleep Token “Chokehold”
Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs
Linkin Park “Lost”
Foo Fighters “Rescued”
Bad Omens “Just Pretend”
Falling In Reverse “Watch The World Burn”
HARDY “Jack”
Ghost “Mary On A Cross”
Sleep Token “The Summoning”
Falling In Reverse “Voices In My Head”
Linkin Park “Fighting Myself”
Metallica “72 Seasons”
Bad Omens “THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND”
Daughtry ft. Lzzy Hale “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”
Greta Van Fleet “Meeting The Master”
Staind “Lowest In Me” NEW
Avenged Sevenfold “Nobody”
Shinedown “Dead Don’t Die”
Beartooth “Sunshine!” NEW
Metallica “Lux Aeterna”
Sleep Token “Granite”
Måneskin ft. Tom Morello “Gossip”
I Prevail “Deep End”
Metallica “Shadows Follow”
Sleep Token “Chokehold”
Ghost “Jesus He Knows Me”
Linkin Park “More The Victim”
Keith Caulfield at Billboard collected a ton of sales data on Record Store Day. The big takeaway is that RSD 2023 gave indie stores their biggest boost in 15 years, with a modern-era record of 1.4M vinyl albums sold last week.
There were 1.8M vinyl albums sold last week industry-wide, etc., making it the biggest non-holiday shopping week for vinyl since Luminate (formerly Soundscan) started tracking album sales in 1991.
56% of all vinyl albums sold industry-wide in the U.S. were rock titles (1.01M of 1.8M). Year-to-date, rock was 54% of all vinyl albums sold (8.7M of 16.2M).
Top-Selling Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) RSD 2023 Exclusive Albums at Indie Stores in the U.S. last week:
Pearl Jam, Give Way (double vinyl)
The Cure, Show (double vinyl picture disc)
The Ramones, Pleasant Dreams (vinyl)
Van Halen, Live: Right Here, Right Now (four vinyl LP set)
Sisters of Mercy, The Reptile House E.P. (smoky-colored vinyl)
Attendance
PANIC! AT THE DISCO
Manchester, UK: 14,343 / 14,592
YUNGBLUD
NECK DEEP
London, UK: 9561 / 10,849
Manchester, UK: 7218 / 8583
ALL TIME LOW
PALE WAVES
London, UK: 9210 / 10,193
I PREVAIL
TRASH BOAT
BLIND CHANNEL
London, UK: 5933 / 6527
THE WONDER YEARS
HOT MULLIGAN
CARLY COSGROVE
Portland, OR: 1478 / 1478
DEMON HUNTER
LIVING SACRIFICE*
OPPONENT
Nashville, TN: 1049 / 1150*
Denver, CO: 574 / 1000
Santa Ana, CA: 530 / 1200
Lawrence, KS: 504 / 1000
Memphis, TN: 349 / 750*
Albuquerque, NM: 270 / 270
THE WINERY DOGS
Saint Charles, IL: 842 / 842
Westland, MI: 800 / 800
Glenside, PA: 747 / 1265
Leesburg, VA: 600 / 600
Greensburg, PA: 547 / 1269
Ridgefield, CT: 500 / 500
Wabash, IN: 498 / 525
THE CHARLATANS UK
RIDE
Portland, OR: 778 / 1400
QUEENSRŸCHE
MARTY FRIEDMAN
Portland, OR: 718 / 1400
BOTCH
Tacoma, WA: 704 / 704
LORNA SHORE
SHADOW OF INTENT
BRAND OF SACRIFICE
BODYSNATCHER
BOUNDARIES
Charleston, SC: 655 / 655
MOD SUN
STAND ATLANTIC
PARDYALONE
Roseville, CA: 600 / 600
KNUCKLE PUCK
BEARINGS
REAL FRIENDS
Madison, WI: 600 / 600
BODYSNATCHER
ANGELMAKER
PALEFACE
DISTANT
Greensboro, NC: 600 / 600
West Palm Beach, FL: 400 / 400
ACE FREHLEY
Solana Beach, CA: 496 / 600
SOULFLY
BODYBOX
DRIFT
Denver, CO: 394 / 394
Greeley, CO: 364 / 364
ESCAPE THE FATE
GLASS STAB
THE BAND RAFTERS
Palmdale, CA: 350 / 350
GIDEON
FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS
ORTHODOX
GUERRILLA WARFARE
Greensboro, NC: 327 / 600
THE SPILL CANVAS
ARMS AKIMBO
Portland, OR: 282 / 282
’68
Greenville, SC: 250 / 250
DRUG CHURCH
PRINCE DADDY
Santa Fe, NM: 243 / 400
COMEBACK KID
Guadalajara, MX: 179 / 180
KOTTONMOUTH KINGS
CRAZYTOWN
GET MONEY
Great Falls, MT: 107 / 898
Sources: Billboard, Luminate, Pollstar, Spotify, YouTube, Misc.