Stream N' Destroy

Stream N' Destroy

Sleep Token, Ghost, Sleep Theory

Top Hard Rock Artists 2025, Recent Attendance, BRIT Certifications

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Ryan J. Downey
Jan 09, 2026
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Sleep Theory’s Cullen Moore & me 📸: Gus Black

In This Issue:

Billboard’s Top 25 Hard Rock Artists of 2025, including Linkin Park, Sleep Token, Deftones, Three Days Grace, Ozzy Osbourne, Creed, Evanescence, Falling In Reverse, Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, Ghost, Sleep Theory, Korn, and more.

Billboard’s Top 50 Hot Hard Rock Songs of 2025, including Sleep Token, Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, Falling In Reverse, Papa Roach, Disturbed, Sleep Theory, Bad Omens, Turnstile, Ghost, Ice Nine Kills, Volbeat, and more.

New BRIT sales certifications for Avenged Sevenfold and Paramore.

Recent attendance for mgk (Brooklyn); Marilyn Manson (UK tour); Morrissey, Social Distortion (Ontario, California); Don Broco, State Champs, Yonaka, Magnolia Park (London, Cardiff); Turnstile, The Garden, High Vis (Dusseldorf);

Creed, Sevendust (Uncasville); A Day To Remember & Yellowcard, The Wonder Years (Ontario); Wardruna (Wroclaw); Bush, Soul Asylum (Uncasville); Helloween, Beast In Black (London); Acid Bath, High On Fire, Weedeater (Chicago); New Model Army & Terrorvision & Paradise Lost (Bradford);

Spiritbox, Periphery, Honey Revenge (Ontario); Trivium, Jinjer, Heriot (Orlando); NOTHING MORE, Catch Your Breath, Solence, Ankor (London, Bristol, Manchester); P.O.D., Demon Hunter (Santiago, Buenos Aires); All Them Witches (DC); Katatonia, Evergrey (Manchester, Bristol); Insane Clown Posse (Columbia);

Dayseeker (Richmond); Queensrÿche, Accept (Grand Rapids); 200 Stab Wounds, No Cure (Grand Rapids); A Killer’s Confession & Dogma (Grand Rapids); Profiler (London); and Ingestd, Ov Sulfur (Grand Rapids).1


Agency Signing ✍🏻

  • Invent Animate w/ Sound Talent Group

Management Signings ✍🏻

  • Haute & Freddy w/ JET

  • Hindsight Hero w/ All About Groove

  • THERAPY HORSE w/ SOS Artists

Record Label Signing ✍🏻

  • The S.E.T. w/ Flatspot Records


Wheatus’ “Teenage Dirtbag” (1999) and The Cure’s “Boys Don’t Cry” (1979) joined Spotify’s BILLIONS CLUB.


The 69 Eyes, Alter Bridge, Angel Du$t, Black Veil Brides, Exhumed, Fotocrime, HANABIE., Iron Savior, Joyce Manor, Morrissey, Puscifer, Stitched Up Heart ft. Conquer Divide, Sylosis, Tigers Jaw, TX2 ft. Magnolia Park, Within Temptation ft. Smash Into Pieces, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.

Billboard Top Rock Artists 2025 🇺🇸

  1. Zach Bryan

  2. Hozier

  3. Myles Smith

  4. sombr

  5. The Marias

  6. Jelly Roll

  7. Linkin Park

  8. Noah Kahan

  9. Fleetwood Mac

  10. Sleep Token

  11. Gigi Perez

  12. Elton John

  13. Creedence Clearwater Revival

  14. Arctic Monkeys

  15. Queen

  16. Nickelback

  17. Creed

  18. Journey

  19. Nirvana

  20. Brandon Lake

  21. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

  22. Twenty One Pilots

  23. mgk

  24. Guns N’ Roses

  25. Coldplay


Billboard Top Hard Rock Artists 2025 🇺🇸

Falling In Reverse’s Ronnie Radke 📸: Jensen Noen
  1. Sleep Token

  2. Linkin Park

  3. Deftones

  4. Three Days Grace

  5. Ozzy Osbourne

  6. Nickelback

  7. Queen

  8. Creed

  9. Evanescence

  10. Falling In Reverse

  11. Black Sabbath

  12. Guns N’ Roses

  13. Metallica

  14. HARDY

  15. Aerosmith

  16. System Of A Down

  17. Ghost

  18. Bon Jovi

  19. AC/DC

  20. 3 Doors Down

  21. Sleep Theory

  22. Korn

  23. Alice In Chains

  24. Breaking Benjamin

  25. Foo Fighters


Ice Nine Kills

Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs 2025

Streaming, Sales, Airplay

  1. Sleep Token “Emergence”

  2. Sleep Token “Caramel”

  3. Linkin Park “The Emptiness Machine”

  4. Linkin Park “Heavy is the Crown”

  5. Sleep Token “Damocles”

  6. Sleep Token “Dangerous”

  7. Linkin Park “Up from the Bottom”

  8. Breaking Benjamin “Awaken”

  9. Sleep Token “Gethsemane”

  10. Falling In Reverse “God is a Weapon” ft. Marilyn Manson

  11. Evanescence “Afterlife”

  12. Sleep Token “Look to Windward”

  13. Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train”

  14. Three Days Grace “Mayday”

  15. Sleep Token “Provider”

  16. Papa Roach “Even If It Kills Me”

  17. Black Sabbath “Paranoid”

  18. Deftones “My Mind is a Mountain”

  19. Disturbed “I Will Not Break”

  20. Ozzy Osbourne “Mama, I’m Coming Home”

  21. Three Days Grace “Apologies”

  22. Sleep Theory “Static”

  23. HARDY “Jim Bob”

  24. Bad Omens “Specter”

  25. Sleep Theory “Stuck in My Head”

  26. Ozzy Osbourne “No More Tears”

  27. Linkin Park “Two Faced”

  28. Falling In Reverse “Bad Guy” ft. Saraya

  29. Linkin Park “Over Each Other”

  30. Falling In Reverse & Jelly Roll “All My Life”

  31. Sleep Token “Infinite Baths”

  32. Turnstile “NEVER ENOUGH”

  33. Ghost “Satanized”

  34. Ghost “Lachryma”

  35. Black Sabbath “War Pigs / Luke’s Wall”

  36. Ice Nine Kills “A Work of Art” ft. Shavo

  37. HARDY “Psycho”

  38. Badflower “Detroit”

  39. Deftones “Infinite Source”

  40. Volbeat “By a Monster’s Hand”

  41. Shinedown “Dance, Kid, Dance”

  42. ivri “Tower of Memories”

  43. Black Sabbath “Iron Man”

  44. Shinedown “Killing Fields”

  45. FEVER 333 “Hellfire”

  46. Foo Fighters “Today’s Song”

  47. Deftones “Milk of the Madonna”

  48. NXCRE & The Villains “Usurper”

  49. Mike Shinoda & Emilly Armstrong “Heavy is the Crown”

  50. Magnolia Park “Shallow”

See all of Billboard’s Year-End charts here.


BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧

AVENGED SEVENFOLD
“Shepherd of Fire”
(Warner Records) 2013
SILVER SINGLE

PARAMORE
Riot
(Fueled By Ramen) 2007
2x PLATINUM ALBUM


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