In This Issue:
Sleep Token, Linkin Park, Deftones, Metallica, and this week’s top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) artists on Spotify, globally and in the United States.
Avenged Sevenfold, Metric, and Queen add songs to the 100M Rock Club.
The Hives, Paramore, and Slipknot earn new BRIT sales awards.
Recent attendance for Pantera, Power Trip (Dublin); Twenty One Pilots (Glasgow, Dublin); Linkin Park, grandson (Baltimore); Breaking Benjamin & Staind, Wage War, Lakeview (Nashville); Billy Idol, Joan Jett (Fort Worth, Austin);
Shinedown, Beartooth (Lexington); Bullet For My Valentine & Trivium, August Burns Red (Inglewood); Papa Roach, Rise Against, Underoath (Portland); Meshuggah, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass (Tampa); Spiritbox, Loathe, Dying Wish, Gel (Orlando); Skunk Anansie (Glasgow), The Plot In You, Holding Absence, Boundaries, Acres (Tempe); Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Seattle);
Arch Enemy (Montreal); Killswitch Engage, Kublai Khan TX, Fit For A King (Winnipeg); Bad Religion, Agnostic Front, Strung Out (Lisbon); Imminence, LANDMVRKS (Tempe); Machine Head, In Flames, Lacuna Coil, Unearth (Winnipeg); Devin Townsend, TesseracT (Boston); AWOLNATION (Tempe);
Anberlin, Copeland, The Dangerous Summer (Tempe, Albuquerque); Napalm Death & Melvins (Boston; Grand Rapids); Napalm Death (Belfast); Frank Turner (Dublin); Biohazard, Life Of Agony (Dublin); The Living End (Northcote); The Devil Wears Prada, ERRA (Charleston); Buzzcocks (Dublin); Rivers Of Nihil (Dublin); Touché Amoré (Dublin), and Mac Sabbath (Grand Rapids).1
Even in Arcadia, Sleep Token’s fourth album and first with RCA, debuted at the top of the charts in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, and their native UK. The band is up 150 (!) spots on Spotify’s Global Top Artists Chart this week and up 50 in the USA, where they’re currently No. 10.
US numbers will be revealed early next week.
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 29 overall)
Sleep Token (No. 39 overall)
Radiohead (No. 71)
Queen (No. 95)
System Of A Down (No. 106)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 109)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 111)
Metallica (No. 122)
Nirvana (No. 130)
Chase Atlantic (No. 150)
Green Day (No. 153)
AC/DC (No. 158)
Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Sleep Token (No. 10)
Radiohead (No. 57 overall)
Linkin Park (No. 59 overall)
Deftones (No. 81)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 102)
Nirvana (No. 116)
Paramore (No. 120)
Metallica (No. 129)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 133)
Nickelback (No. 142)
Green Day (No. 144)
Pierce The Veil (No. 147)
Sublime (No. 152)
Fall Out Boy (No. 153)
System Of A Down (No. 161)
Three Days Grace (No. 169)
Queen (No. 173)
Alice In Chains (No. 179)
AC/DC (No. 184)
100M Rock Club
Recent Additions
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
“Carry On”
(Warner Records) 2012
METRIC
“Help I’m Alive”
Fantasies
(MMI) 2009
QUEEN
“These Are The Days Of Our Lives”
Innuendo
(Hollywood) 1991
THE HIVES
“Tick Tick Boom”
(Polydor) 2007
SILVER SINGLE
PARAMORE
“That’s What You Get”
(Fueled By Ramen) 2007
GOLD SINGLE
SLIPKNOT
“Before I Forget”
(Roadrunner) 2004
PLATINUM SINGLE
Archers, Arm’s Length, Born Of Osiris, Bury Tomorrow, The Callous Daoboys, Gemini Syndrome, Five Finger Death Punch, Full Of Hell, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, La Dispute, Linkin Park, Lorna Shore, NOVELISTS, Shadow Of Intent, Sleep Theory, Solence, Volbeat, Within Temptation, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.
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