The Cure, Skillet, Dead Icarus
First-Week Sales, Attendance, Active Rock, UK Charts
In This Issue…
The Cure, Skillet, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Neon Nightmare, Tribulation, Vola, Brothers Of Metal, Cane Hill, Nachtmystium, Dead Icarus, Powerflo, Counterparts, Havok, and more first-week album sales and streams.
Weekly sales updates for dozens of albums.
Skillet By The Numbers.
Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) albums in the UK and Australia.
The Funeral Portrait, Nothing More, Badflower, Breaking Benjamin, Pop Evil, Sleep Theory, Falling In Reverse, and this week’s Active Rock chart.
Recent attendance for Jelly Roll; Limp Bizkit; Twenty One Pilots; Five Finger Death Punch, Marilyn Manson, Slaughter To Prevail; Belle & Sebastian, Badly Drawn Boy; Twiztid; Pup Punk; Badflower, Vanna; Alpha Wolf, Invent, Animate; The Funeral Portrait; The English Beat; Green Jelly; Oxymorrons, and more.1
Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (1980) joins Spotify’s BILLIONS CLUB.
100M Rock Club
New Additions
Linkin Park “Heavy is the Crown” (2024)
Blink-182 “Every Time I Look For You” (2001)
The Cure
The Cure just released their highest-charting album in the US since 1992. Debuting at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, Songs of a Lost World is the legendary group’s first Top 10 album in the United States in over 20 years.
(Wish debuted at No. 2 in 1992; The Cure at No. 7 in 2004).
Songs of a Lost World sold 57,000 equivalent album units in the first week. Of these, 53,000 were traditional album sales from physical and digital formats, including 23,000 across multiple vinyl variants.
Their Ross Robinson-produced self-titled set debuted with 91k in 2004.
The band’s 14th studio album is No. 1 in Album Sales, Rock & Alternative, Rock, Alternative, Vinyl, and the Indie Store Album Sales charts.
It’s also The Cure’s first No. 1 album in the UK since Wish topped the chart 32 years ago.
THE CURE
Songs of a Lost World
(Lost Music/Polydor)
57,000 Total Activity
53,000 Album Sales
(23,000 Vinyl LPs)
Previous First-Weeks:
23,000 - 4:13 Dream (2008)
91,000 - The Cure (2004)
Skillet
Skillet’s first album since leaving Atlantic, Revolution, debuts with 12,000 in total activity. Released on the band’s Hear It Loud label, 10,000 of those units were traditional sales and downloads, including 2000 on vinyl.
Hear It Loud was initially launched as an Atlantic imprint, cofounded by Skillet’s John and Korey Cooper and longtime manager Zachary Kelm in 2013. A few months ago, the band announced they’d left Atlantic after two decades.
SKILLET
Revolution
(Hear It Loud)
12,000 Total Activity
10,000 Album Sales
(2000 Vinyl LPs)
Previous First-Weeks:
14,500 / 12,000 - Dominion (2022)
25,000 / 22,000 - Victorious (2019)
58,000 - Unleashed (2016)
60,000 - Rise (2013)
68,000 - Awake (2009)
Skillet By The Numbers
10.3M Monthly Spotify Listeners
5.3M Spotify Followers
4.9M Facebook Likes
3.94M YouTube Subs
2M Instagram Followers
491k X (Twitter) Followers
“Monster” (2009) has 1.7B plays on YouTube. “Hero” (2009) has 1B.
They have nine songs in Stream N’ Destroy’s 100M Rock Club.
RIAA Certifications
Awake (2009) 2x PLATINUM
Comatose (2006) PLATINUM
Unleashed (2016) GOLD
Rise (2013) GOLD
“Monster” (2009) 5x PLATINUM
“Hero” (2009) 3x PLATINUM
“Awake and Alive” (2009) 2x PLATINUM
“Feel Invincible” (2016) 2x PLATINUM
“The Resistance” (2016) PLATINUM
“Comatose” (2006) PLATINUM
“Whispers in the Dark” (2006) PLATINUM
“Legendary” (2019) GOLD
“Stars” (2016) GOLD
“The Last Night” (2006) GOLD
“Rebirthing” (2006) GOLD
Active Rock 🇺🇸
The Funeral Portrait “Suffocate City” ft. Spencer Charnas
Jelly Roll “Liar”
Nothing More “Angel Song” ft. David Draiman
Linkin Park “The Emptiness Machine”
Badflower “Detroit”
Dorothy “MUD”
HARDY “PSYCHO”
Breaking Benjamin “Awaken”
Pop Evil “What Remains”
Green Day “Bobby Sox”
Jerry Cantrell “Villified”
Scott Stapp “Black Butterfly”
Pearl Jam “Waiting for Stevie”
Sleep Theory “Stuck in My Head”
Falling In Reverse “Bad Guy” ft. Saraya
Dead Poet Society “Hurt”
Dirty Honey “Don’t Put Out the Flame”
Poppy “New Way Out”
Jack White “That’s How I’m Feeling”
Daughtry “The Dam”
STARSET “TokSik”
Linkin Park “Heavy is the Crown”
Fame On Fire “Chains (The Tower)”
Skillet “Unpopular”
Cory Marks “(Make My) Country Rock”
Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart 🇬🇧
7 November 2024 - 13 November 2024
David Gilmour Luck and Strange
Amyl & The Sniffers Cartoon Darkness
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet/Nil Recurring NEW
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Green Day American Idiot
Pink Floyd The Wall
Iommi Fused RE-ENTRY
Nirvana Nevermind
Linkin Park Meteora
Bring Me The Horizon Post Human - Nex Gen
Skillet Revolution NEW
INME Overgrown Eden RE-ENTRY
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Jerry Cantrell I Want Blood
Evanescence Fallen
Nightwish Yesterwynde
Green Day Dookie
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Deep Purple =1
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
King Crimson Red
Linkin Park Papercuts - Singles Collection 2000 - 2023
System Of A Down Toxicity
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Deftones Around the Fur
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
Ghost Rite Here Rite Now - OST
Nirvana Unplugged in New York
Devin Townsend Powernerd
Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction
Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere
Myles Kennedy The Art of Letting Go
Michael Schenker My Years with UFO
Pearl Jam Ten
Black Sabbath Paranoid RE-ENTRY
Amyl & The Sniffers Comfort to Me RE-ENTRY
Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine RE-ENTRY
AC/DC Back in Black
Nirvana In Utero
ARIA Top Albums 🇦🇺
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Chase Atlantic Lost in Heaven (No. 4 overall)
The Cure Songs of a Lost World (No. 5)
Linkin Park Papercuts (No. 24)
Amy And The Sniffers Cartoon Darkness (No. 49)
Album Sales 🇺🇸
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