In This Issue:
Bring Me The Horizon’s “Kool-Aid” debuts with 2.4 M official U.S. streams and 2k paid digital downloads from January 5 to 11, according to Luminate, giving them their fifth No. 1 song on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart.
New BRIT certifications for blink-182, Disturbed, and Korn.
This week’s Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs chart including Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Beartooth, Mammoth WVH, Wisp, BOI What, and more.
Shinedown, Metallica, and the Top Hard Rock Digital Song Sales.
Anberlin, Peyton Parrish, and more first-week album sales in the US, plus weekly updates on dozens of Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) albums.
Average attendance for recent shows from Tool, Pierce The Veil, Bush, Fear Factory, and From Ashes To New, plus attendance from recent shows, including Queens Of The Stone Age; Paradise Lost; Highly Suspect; Bush, Bad Wolves, Eva Under Fire; Hot Mulligan; Baroness; Twiztid; Zakk Sabbath; Armor For Sleep; Pussy Riot; The Pietasters; We Came As Romans; and The English Beat.
Label Signings ✍🏻
Bite The Hand w/ Big Bite Records
CHVE w/ Relapse Records
Far Beyond w/ Prosthetic Records
News You Can Use 📰
Bring Me The Horizon Scores Record-Breaking Fifth Hot Hard Rock Songs No. 1
“Kool-Aid" debuts with 2.4 million official U.S. streams and 2000 downloads sold from January 5 to 11, according to Luminate. Bring Me The Horizon breaks a tie with Falling In Reverse for the most Hot Hard Rock Songs No. 1s since the chart began in June 2020. (“Popular Monster” was the first-ever No. 1 on the chart.)
Big Loud Unveils Alt-Rock JV Severance Records
Big Loud, home of Morgan Wallen, HARDY, and others, unveiled a joint venture called Severance Records, billed as “an independent, modern rock label.” Mike Easterlin (ex-Elektra) and Steve Robertson (ex-Atlantic) serve as co-presidents. The first signing is the Southern rock group Dexter and The Moonrocks.
New Brit Certifications 🇬🇧
BLINK-182
“All the Small Things”
(MCA) 1999
3x PLATINUM SINGLE
DISTURBED
“Down with the Sickness”
(Warner Records) 2000
PLATINUM SINGLE
KORN
The Paradigm Shift
(Spinefarm) 2013
GOLD ALBUM
Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs 🇺🇸
Bring Me The Horizon “Kool-Aid” NEW
Bad Omens “Just Pretend”
Bad Omens “THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND”
Linkin Park “Lost”
Sleep Token “Granite”
Superheaven “Youngest Daughter”
Foo Fighters “Under You”
Måneskin “Honey (Are U Coming?)”
Staind “Here And Now”
Wisp “Your Face”
Bring Me The Horizon “DArkSide”
Jeris Johnson “When The Darkness Comes”
Sleep Token “Rain”
Daughtry “Artificial”
Motionless In White “Sign Of Life”
Beartooth “Might Love Myself”
Sleep Theory “Numb”
Sleep Token “Ascensionism”
Mammoth WVH “I’m Alright”
Tim Montana “Devil You Know”
Architects “Seeing Red”
CORPSE & Bring Me The Horizon “CODE MISTAKE” RE-ENTRY
BOI WHAT “Neon Tide” NEW
quannic “Life Imitates Art”
Bad Omens “Artificial Suicide”
Hard Rock Digital Song Sales 🇺🇸
Bring Me The Horizon “Kool-Aid” NEW
Shinedown “The Sound Of Madness”
Disturbed “The Sound Of Silence”
AC/DC “Thunderstruck”
Aerosmith “Dream On” RE-ENTRY
Creed “One Last Breath”
Metallica “Enter Sandman”
30 Seconds To Mars “The Kill (Bury Me)”
Shinedown “Second Chance” RE-ENTRY
Creed “Higher”
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