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Top 40 Most Streamed Artists
Hard Rock/Metal/Punk, Etc.
July 24, 2020 - July 30, 2020
By Total Songs Streamed
Queen 22M “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Panic! At The Disco 19M “High Hopes”
twenty one pilots 18.9M “Level of Concern”
AC/DC 18.9M “Thunderstruck”
Linkin Park 16.7M “In the End”
Red Hot Chili Peppers 16.1M “Under the Bridge”
Five Finger Death Punch 16M “Blue on Black”
Metallica 15.4M “Enter Sandman”
Led Zeppelin 15.2M “Stairway to Heaven”
Fall Out Boy 13.4M “Sugar, We’re Goin Down”
Green Day 12.8M “Basket Case”
5 Seconds Of Summer 12.6M “Youngblood”
Nirvana 11.5M “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Shinedown 11.1M “Simple Man”
Three Days Grace 10.6M “(I Hate) Everything About You”
Blink-182 10.6M “All the Small Things”
Guns N’ Roses 10.5M “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
Disturbed 9.7M “The Sound of Silence”
Aerosmith 9.5M “Dream On”
Breaking Benjamin 9M “The Diary of Jane”
Slipknot 8.9M “Duality”
Weezer 8.7M “Island in the Sun”
Pearl Jam 8.4M “Black”
My Chemical Romance 8.3M “Welcome to the Black Parade”
Van Halen 8.2M “Jump”
Paramore 7.9M “Misery Business”
System Of A Down 7.6M “Chop Suey!”
Bon Jovi 7.5M “Livin’ On a Prayer”
Foo Fighters 7.4M “Everlong”
Tool 7.4M “Sober”
Skillet 7.2M “Monster”
Nickelback 7.2M “How You Remind Me”
Korn 7.1M “Coming Undone”
Avenged Sevenfold 7.1M “Hail to the King”
Def Leppard 7M “Pour Some Sugar On Me”
Godsmack 6.4M “Bulletproof”
Alice In Chains 6.4M “Rooster”
Seether 6.2M “Fake It”
3 Doors Down 5.9M “Kryptonite”
Falling In Reverse 5.7M “Popular Monster”
(Source: Rolling Stone.)
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Apple Services Business Grows Double Digits, Helps Boost Quarterly Revenue. The segment that encompasses Apple Music and Apple TV+ had net sales of $13.2 billion during the period. — The Hollywood Reporter
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