The Week’s Biggest Albums 📲💿
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
May 7, 2021 - May 13, 2021
Weezer
Van Weezer
(Crush Music)
18,800 Album Units / 13,900 Album Sales1
2000 Song Sales / 4.3M Song Streams
Machine Gun Kelly
Tickets to My Downfall
(Bad Boy/Interscope)
17,800 Album Units / 1200 Album Sales
4800 Song Sales / 20.6M Song Streams
Guns N’ Roses
Appetite for Destruction
(Geffen/Interscope)
9400 Album Units / 741 Album Sales
3700 Song Sales / 10M Song Streams
AC/DC
Back in Black
(Columbia Records)
9400 Album Units / 882 Album Sales
4000 Song Sales / 10M Song Streams
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits
(Warner Bros.)
7500 Album Units / 576 Album Sales
1700 Song Sales / 8.6M Song Streams
Weezer
Weezer (The Blue Album)
(Interscope)
7100 Album Units / 1300 Album Sales
1900 Song Sales / 5.9M Song Streams
My Chemical Romance
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
(Reprise Records)
6600 Album Units / 529 Album Sales
1000 Song Sales / 7.5M Song Streams
Nirvana
Nevermind
(Geffen/Interscope)
6500 Album Units / 1000 Album Sales
1500 Song Sales / 6.2M Song Streams
twenty one pilots
Blurryface
(Fueled By Ramen)
6300 Album Units / 252 Album Sales
813 Song Sales / 8M Song Streams
Linkin Park
Hybrid Theory
(Warner Bros.)
6000 Album Units / 527 Album Sales
1500 Song Sales / 6.6M Song Streams
Metallica
Metallica
(Blackened Recordings)
5700 Album Units / 709 Album Sales
2800 Song Sales / 6.1M Song Streams
Pink Floyd
The Wall
(Columbia Records)
5400 Album Units / 772 Album Sales
1500 Song Sales / 5.1M Song Streams
Source: Rolling Stone
Top 50 Most Streamed Artists 🪙
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
May 7, 2021 - May 13, 2021
Queen 26.1M songs streamed (No. 68 overall)
twenty one pilots 22.9M song streams (No. 83)
AC/DC 21.8M song streams (No. 92)
Linkin Park 19.8M (No. 107)
Panic! At The Disco 19.3M
Red Hot Chili Peppers 18.8M
Metallica 18.6M
Led Zeppelin 17.5M
Five Finger Death Punch 16.4M
Nirvana 16.1M
Fall Out Boy 16M
Weezer 15.6M
Pink Floyd 15.4M
Green Day 15.1M
5 Seconds Of Summer 12.4M
Journey 12.4M
Guns N’ Roses 12.4M
Blink-182 12.3M
Shinedown 12M
Paramore 11.6M
Sublime 11.5M
Disturbed 11.2M
Aerosmith 11.1M
Van Halen 10.6M
Slipknot 10.5M
Breaking Benjamin 10.3M
My Chemical Romance 10.2M
Foo Fighters 10.1M
System Of A Down 9.2M
Bon Jovi 9.2M
Nickelback 9.1M
Korn 9M
All Time Low 8.8M
Bring Me The Horizon 8.4M
Mötley Crüe 8.3M
Def Leppard 8.2M
Avenged Sevenfold 8.2M
Skillet 8.1M
Alice In Chains 8M
Tool 7.9M
The Strokes 7.8M
Godsmack 7.4M
Seether 7.3M
3 Doors Down 7.2M
Falling In Reverse 7.1M
A Day To Remember 7.1M
Ozzy Osbourne 6.7M
Papa Roach 6.6M
The Offspring 6.4M
Rage Against The Machine 6.2M
Source: Rolling Stone
Speak N’ Destroy - The First Podcast About Metallica
Top 40 Rock & Metal Albums (UK) 🇬🇧
14 May 2021 - 20 May 2021
Iceage, Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer) NEW
Dropkick Murphys, Turn Up That Dial (Born And Bred)
Foo Fighters, Medicine at Midnight (Columbia) ⇧
Gojira, Fortitude (Roadrunner) ↓
Greta Van Fleet, The Battle At Garden’s Gate (EMI) ↓
Nirvana, Nevermind (Geffen) ⇧
Evanescence, The Bitter Truth (RCA) ↓
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon (Rhino)⇧
Guns N’ Roses, Greatest Hits (Geffen) ⇧
Sleep, The Clarity/Leagues Beneath (Third Man) NEW
The Offspring, Let the Bad Times Roll (Concord) ↓
Thunder, All the Right Noises (BMG) ⇧
Pink Floyd, Delicate Sound of Thunder (Rhino)
Evile, Hell Unleashed (Napalm) ↓
Peter Hammill, In Translation (FIE) NEW
Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory (Warner Bros.) ↓
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here (Rhino) ↓
Foo Fighters, Greatest Hits (RCA) ↓
AC/DC, POWER UP (Columbia) ⇧
Bring Me The Horizon, POST HUMAN - SURVIVAL HORROR (RCA) ⇧
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (Rhino) ⇧
Babymetal, 10 Babymetal Years (Ear Music) RE-ENTRY
Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (Polydor/UMC) ⇧
AC/DC, Back in Black (Epic) ↓
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin (Rhino) ⇧
Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of, Live at the Roundhouse (Sony Music CG) RE-ENTRY
Smith/Kotzen, Smith/Kotzen (BMG) ↓
Nirvana, Unplugged in New York (Geffen) ↓
Green Day, American Idiot (Reprise)
Carcass, Heartwork (Earache) NEW 🤷🏻♂️
Black Sabbath, Paranoid (Sanctuary) ⇧
Pink Floyd, The Wall (Rhino) ↓
Royal Blood, How Did We Get So Dark (Warner Bros.) ⇧
Jethro Tull, A (Rhino) ⇧
Alice Cooper, Detroit Stories (Ear Music) ↓
Pearl Jam, Ten (Epic) RE-ENTRY
Architects, For Those That Wish to Exist (Epitaph) RE-ENTRY
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II (Rhino) RE-ENTRY
Motörhead, Louder Than Noise - Live in Berlin (Motörhead Music)
AC/DC, Highway to Hell (Epic) RE-ENTRY
Source: Official Charts
New Tour Announcements 🎫
July/August/September
GREEN DAY
& FALL OUT BOY
& WEEZER (co)
THE INTERRUPTERS (via Rolling Stone)
September/October
ALICE COOPER
ACE FREHLEY
(Via Blabbermouth)
September/October/November
SHINEDOWN
THE STRUTS
ZERO 9:36 (via Blabbermouth)
BLACK VEIL BRIDES
& IN THIS MOMENT (co)
DED, RAVEN BLACK (via Loudwire)
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL
THIS WILD LIFE
INTO IT. OVER IT
SEAHAVEN
ARMON JAY (via BrooklynVegan)
A FEW HEADLINES… 🗞
PARAMORE RAISE $45k FOR NASHVILLE’S EXIT/IN
'Tiny Hot Topic Bitch’ shirt sales help the imperiled club. - Billboard
HD-STREAMING PRICE WAR BREAKS OUT
Apple Music, Amazon, and (soon) Spotify follow Tidal’s lead. - HITS Daily Double
NIRVANA, PEARL JAM RALLY TO SUPPORT SUSIE TENANT
A GoFundMe for Seattle music fixture Susie Tennant is rallying some of the key players from the '90s grunge explosion to help the former Geffen Records publicist and her family as they face a litany of health issues and costs. - Billboard
KNOTFEST LAUNCHES TWITCH NETWORK.
Twitch, YouTube, and podcast stars fill its 40 hours per week content. - Knotfest
ANDY WALLACE SELLS CATALOG TO HIPGNOSIS
The deal includes 100% of Wallace’s producer, mixer, and performance royalties from 17,242 songs, which generated close to $800,000 in the last three years. Wallace is credited on albums with over 120M sales worldwide. His discography includes Aerosmith, Blink-182, Foo Fighters, Guns N’ Roses, Linkin Park, Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, Rush, Slayer, System Of A Down, and White Zombie. - MBW
Not final first-week total*