Slipknot, DragonForce, Scott Stapp

First-Week Sales, RIAA & BRIT Certifcations, Spotify Charts

Kerrang!’s 2019 Album of the Year is now GOLD in the UK

In This Issue:

Linkin Park, Deftones, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, Metallica, AC/DC, HARDY, and this week’s Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) artists on Spotify.

A new RIAA certification for Mayday Parade and new BRIT certifications for Alter Bridge, The Killers, Muse, Panic! At The Disco, Slipknot, and The Smiths.

Recent attendance for Beartooth, The Plot In You, Invent Animate, and Sleep Theory, including the total number of tickets for the entire tour.

First-week sales in the U.S. for Black Crowes, Scott Stapp, DragonForce, Gouge Away, Whom Gods Destroy, Aborted, Firewind, Necrophobic, Vltimas, Cory Wells, Brat, Spoken, Leather Lung, Seventh Day Slumber, Lords Of Black, Keygen Church, Sweet Pill, Kipz, Comeback Kid, Atrophy, Mad Caddies, Kaosis, and Lionheart, plus the weekly update on dozens of albums.¹

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Anaheim, this weekend!

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Agency Signings ✍🏻

• Fucked Up w/ Paquin Artists Agency 

• Pinkshift w/ One Fiinix Live 

• Sixpence None The Richer w/ Madison House 

• Spirit Adrift w/ Echelon Talent Agency 

• Thursday w/ All Artists Agency 

Label Signings ✍🏻

• Gatecreeper w/ Nuclear Blast 

• Grayhaven w/ Solid State Records 

• Winona Fighter w/ Rise Records 

Management Signings ✍🏻

• Bully w/ Ten Atoms

• Sydney Sprague w/ Bittersweet Media 

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Wolfgang Van Halen recently announced a partnership with Mr. Holland’s Opus. Their new Adopt A School initiative sounds pretty cool.

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Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🌎 

Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) 

1. Linkin Park (No. 47 overall) 

2. Queen (No. 65) 

3. Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 128) 

4. AC/DC (No. 132) 

5. Nirvana (No. 143) 

6. Metallica (No. 148) 

7. Twenty One Pilots (No. 159) 

8. Green Day (No. 175) 

9. Måneskin (No. 187) 

10. System Of A Down (No. 188) 

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Spotify Weekly Top Artists 🇺🇸 

Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish) 

1. Linkin Park (No. 60 overall) 

2. Jelly Roll (No. 73) 

3. Deftones (No. 93) 

4. Fall Out Boy (No. 107) 

5. Nirvana (No. 114) 

6. Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 137) 

7. Queen (No. 141) 

8. Radiohead (No. 149) 

9. Twenty One Pilots (No. 151) 

10. Green Day (No. 153) 

11. Metallica (No. 161) 

12. AC/DC (No. 163) 

13. Panic! At The Disco (No. 167) 

14. System Of A Down (No. 170) 

15. Paramore (No. 178) 

16. HARDY (No. 181) 

17. Nickelback (No. 184) 

18. blink-182 (No. 189) 

19. mgk (No. 198) 

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New music from Boundaries, Visions Of Atlantis, The Ghost Inside, Flat Black ft. Corey Taylor, Hot Mulligan, Wage War, Kublai Khan TX, While She Sleeps, Billy Morrison ft. Ozzy Osbourne, The Story So Far, P.O.D., and more in the Stream N’ Destroy Spotify playlist.

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New RIAA Certification 🇺🇸 

MAYDAY PARADE 
“Jamie All Over” 
(Fearless) 2008
PLATINUM SINGLE 

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New BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧

ALTER BRIDGE 
“Metalingus” 
(Parlophone) 2004
SILVER SINGLE 

THE KILLERS 
Rebel Diamonds 
(EMI) 2023
SILVER ALBUM 

MUSE 
Black Holes & Revelations 
(Helium 3/Warner Records) 2006
4x PLATINUM ALBUM 

PANIC! AT THE DISCO 
“The Ballad of Mona Lisa” 
(Atlantic) 2011 
GOLD SINGLE 

SLIPKNOT 
We Are Not Your Kind 
(Roadrunner) 2019
GOLD ALBUM 

THE SMITHS 
“Bigmouth Strikes Again” 
(Warner Records) 1986
GOLD SINGLE 

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Attendance 🇺🇸  

Congrats to everyone involved in this tour, which was entirely sold out — 77,980 tickets!

BEARTOOTH 
THE PLOT IN YOU
INVENT ANIMATE
SLEEP THEORY 
Fort Wayne, IN: 2208 / 2208
Indianapolis, IN: 1938 / 1938
Nashville, TN: 1800 / 1800
Sauget, IL:  1700 / 1700

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Album Sales 🇺🇸  

Physical & Digital