In this issue: the biggest Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) albums of the year, including AC/DC, Rob Zombie, and Ice Nine Kills; the Top Grossing Tours of the year, including GN’R, Slipknot, and Megadeth/Lamb Of God; this week’s Mainstream Rock Top 40; this week’s Top 10 Hard Rock Digital Song Sales; top Hard Rock Albums in Germany; and international chart positions for Volbeat.1
Top Grossing Tours - 2021
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Pollstar released their Year End Top 100 Worldwide Tours today.
The HELLA MEGA TOUR was No. 3 overall, behind The Rolling Stones and Harry Styles, with 20 shows in as many cities and an average ticket price of $102.09.
Here’s a look at the Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) tours on the list.
Fall Out Boy/Green Day/Weezer $67.3M
Guns N’ Roses $47.3M from 23 shows (No. 7)
KISS $16.9M 22 (No. 30)
Slipknot $12.3M 24 (No. 42)
Machine Gun Kelly $11.5M 31 (No. 44)
Korn $10.3M 27 (No. 48)
ZZ Top $9.4M 47 (No. 53)
Megadeth/Lamb Of God $7.9M 24 (No. 61)
Shinedown $7.5M 25 (No. 63)
The Black Crowes $7.4M 19 (No. 64)
Primus $7M 38 (No. 69)
Dirty Heads/Sublime With Rome $6.5M 38 (No. 73)
Modest Mouse $6.2M 46 (No. 74)
Foreigner $6M 39 shows (No. 76)
Foo Fighters $4.5M 3 (No. 85)
Billboard Top Albums 2021🇺🇸
Hard Rock Albums (Current Releases)
AC/DC Power Up (Columbia)
Greta Van Fleet The Battle… (Lava/Republic)
Foo Fighters Medicine At Midnight (RCA)
Iron Maiden Senjutsu (Sanctuary/BMG)
Rob Zombie The Lunar Injection… Nuclear Blast)
Evanescence The Bitter Truth (BMG)
Gojira Fortitude (Roadrunner)
Mammoth WVH Mammoth WVH (EX1)
Ice Nine Kills Welcome To Horrorwood (Fearless)
A Day To Remember You’re Welcome (Fueled By Ramen)
Chevelle NIRATIAS (Epic)
Spiritbox Eternal Blue (Rise)
Top 40 Mainstream Rock Airplay📻🇺🇸
Week of December 18, 2021
Volbeat “Shotgun Blues” ⇧
Ghost “Hunter’s Moon” ⇧
Ayron Jones “Supercharged” ↓
Bad Wolves “Lifeline” ⇧
Papa Roach “Kill The Noise” ↓
Nita Strauss & David Draiman “Dead Inside”
Greta Van Fleet “Built By Nations”
Korn “Start The Healing”
Jack White “Taking Me Back” ⇧
Coheed And Cambria “Shoulders” ↓
Bring Me The Horizon “DiE4u” ⇧
Slash ft. Myles Kennedy “The River…” ⇧
Three Days Grace “So Called Life” ⇧
DED “Kill Beautiful Things” ⇧
Mastodon “Teardrinker” ⇧
Asking Alexandria “Alone Again” ↓
Foo Fighters “Love Dies Young” ⇧
Badflower “Don’t Hate Me” ↓
Ice Nine Kills “Rainy Day”
Jerry Cantrell “Brighten” ⇧
Dirty Honey “The Wire” ↓
All Good Things “The Comeback” ft. Craig Mabbitt ⇧
Halestorm “Back From The Dead” ↓
Guns N’ Roses “Hard Skool” ↓
Trivium “Feast Of Fire”
Skillet “Surviving The Game”
Lilith Czar “Anarchy”
Rise Against “Talking To Ourselves”
Mammoth WVH “Epiphany” NEW
Bullet For My Valentine “Rainbow Veins”
Slipknot “The Chapeltown Rag” ↓
Black Veil Brides “Crimson Skies” ↓
Atreyu “Untouchable” ft. Jacoby Shaddix ↓
Black Label Society “Set You Free”
Måneskin “I Wanna Be Your Slave” ↓
Daughtry “Changes Are Coming” ⇧
Limp Bizkit “Dad Vibes” ⇧
Wage War “Circle The Drain” ⇧
Jelly Roll “Dead Man Walking” NEW
Tremonti “If Not For You” RE-ENTRY
Top 10 Hard Rock Digital Song Sales🇺🇸
Week of December 18, 2021
Trans-Siberian Orchestra “Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)”
State Of Mine “God’s Country” ft. Drew Jacobs
Eskimo Callboy “Pump It” NEW
Miracle Of Sound “Valhalla Calling” ft. Peyton Parrish
Trans-Siberian Orchestra “Wizards In Winter”
AC/DC “Thunderstruck”
Masayoshi Soren & THE PRIMALS “Endwalker”
Three Days Grace “So Called Life”
Disturbed “The Sound Of Silence”
Trans-Siberian Orchestra “Mad Russian’s Christmas”
Offizielle Deutsche Charts 🇩🇪
10 Dezember, 2021
Volbeat Servant Of The Mind (No. 1 overall!)
Deep Purple Turning To Crime (No. 16 overall)
Kadavar & Elder A Story of Darkness… (No. 20)
Metallica Metallica (No. 24)
Epica Omega Alive (No. 26)
Iron Maiden Senjutsu (No. 42)
Queen Greatest Hits (No. 48)
Nirvana Nevermind (No. 49)
Overkill The Atlantic Years (No. 51)
Queen The Platinum Collection (No. 79)
Volbeat Chart Positions
Servant Of The Mind
No. 1 Ö3 Austria 🇦🇹
No. 1 Offizielle Top 100🇩🇪
No. 1 UK Rock & Metal Albums 🇬🇧
No. 2 Schweizer Hitparade🇨🇭
No. 2 Top Hard Rock Albums 🇺🇸
No. 4 Suomen virallinen lista 🇫🇮
No. 5 Album Top 100 🇳🇱
No. 6 Sverigetopplistan 🇸🇪
No. 8 Ultratop Flanders 🇧🇪
No. 9 Top Rock Albums 🇺🇸
No. 10 VG-lista 🇳🇴
No. 31 UK Albums 🇬🇧
No. 38 Ultrapop Wallonia 🇧🇪
No. 56 Canadian Albums 🇨🇦
No. 85 SNEP 🇫🇷
No. 91 Billboard 200 🇺🇸
Sources: Billboard, Official Charts, Pollstar, Misc.