YUNGBLUD, Tons Of Rock, Deftones

First-Week Album Sales, YouTube Charts, BRIT Certifications

Neseblod Records (former location of Helvete), Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴

In This Issue:

I’m back from the Tons Of Rock festival in Oslo, Norway, and it was incredible.

YUNGBLUD, Hotline TNT, Badflower, Cryptopsy, Alestorm, Malevolence, Skinhead, Haggus, Mugshot, Patristic, Pain Of Truth & Sunami, Bad Beat, and Helms Deep first-week album sales in the United States. Plus weekly updates on dozens of albums, including Turnstile, Sleep Token, Ghost, and Volbeat.

Mötley Crüe ft. Dolly Parton, Breaking Benjamin, Thrice, Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, I Prevail, BABYMETAL, Linkin Park, Electric Callboy, Lorna Shore, and this week’s most popular Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube.

Spotify’s BILLIONS CLUB additions from Three Days Grace, Panic! At The Disco, and Green Day. AC/DC adds another song to the 100M Rock Club.

BRIT certifications for Biffy Clyro, Deftones, Jet, Nickelback, and Slipknot.¹

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Agency Signing ✍🏻

• Polaris w/ IAG

Record Label Signings ✍🏻

• Fervence w/ Metal Blade Records

• Prong w/ Napalm Records

• SPRINTS w/ Sub Pop

• Textures w/ Kscope

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A Blaze in The Northern Field 📸: my daughter!

It was my first time making the metal pilgrimage to Oslo, Norway, and I can’t think of a better reason than to attend the Tons Of Rock festival.

We’ve all been to similar events, so let me tell you, this was perhaps the best-organized I’ve ever seen, with a universally friendly vibe, in the city where the sun doesn’t set till almost midnight. Gorgeous and unique location, easy access to mass transit back and forth, quality food, and a perfectly diverse rock bill.

The first day, we were able to walk directly from a raucous mainstage performance by Electric Callboy to a darkened area filled with the legendary doom of Candlemass, in the same tent where Old Man’s Child later crushed.

Tons Of Rock was my first time seeing Emperor since their brief American tour in 1999, and what a place to do it. (I am the black wizards, indeed.)

Earlier this year, I took my teenage daughter to see Machine Head at Jose Mangin’s Seal Beach studio — what a trip for her to see that, and then to experience full Headcase bombast co-headlining a Euro fest. It was a tasty blend of classics and newer songs, with Robb Flynn’s unrivaled command of a vast crowd cutting through what could have otherwise been a sensory overload of video screens, pyro, inflatable hammers, and square-shaped MH beach balls.

Which is to take nothing away from the massive performances delivered by the likes of Muse, Green Day, Weezer, Megadeth, The Damned, and more. (I’ve seen Megadeth many times, and yes, Teemu Mäntysaari nails “Tornado of Souls.”)

Avenged Sevenfold’s heady, minimalist, and clever stage production stood out among the sea of fire, confetti, and fireworks employed elsewhere, and the sing-alongs from the crowd were louder for them than anyone else we watched.

Anyone still demanding to know, “Where are the new headliners in this space?” isn’t truly paying attention. A7X cracked the mainstream crossover code with at least three albums, and continues to release music that challenges both their audience and themselves, particularly with the inspired Life is But a Dream…

They’ve had every opportunity to be boring and stubbornly refuse.

We met a small army of amazing people behind the scenes at Tons Of Rock, including Cato Bjørkli and Jarle Kvåle, as well as fabulous delegates from Wacken Festival and Rock Hard, and familiar faces like the fantastic Katy Irizarry of Susperia PR, who should be the American ambassador to Norway.

Tons Of Rock was kind enough to organize cultural tours for us, as well: visits to Akershus Fortress, the MUNCH Museum, and the requisite drop-in to the infernal cellar once occupied by Euronymous and co, at Neseblod Records.

I couldn’t recommend this event (and city) more, and I’m excited to return ASAP.

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100M Rock Club

Latest Addition

AC/DC
“Touch Too Much”
Highway to Hell
(Atlantic) 1999

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Enterprise Earth, Fire From The Gods, Fit For A King, Forbidden, Good Charlotte, Hollywood Undead, Lorna Shore, ONI, Papa Roach ft. Toby Morse, Pig Pen, Royale Lynn, Rise Of The Northstar and LANDMVRKS, Shadow Of Intent, Solence, STARSET, Thousand Below, and more new music in the Stream N’ Destroy playlist.

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Top 50 Rock Music Videos 🇺🇸

This week’s ranking of the most popular Rock music videos on YouTube.

1. AC/DC "Thunderstruck"

2. Eagles "Hotel California (Live 1977)"

3. Mötley Crüe "Home Sweet Home (feat. Dolly Parton)"

4. The Outfield "Your Love"

5. Audioslave "Like a Stone"

6. Staind "It's Been Awhile"

7. Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine"

8. Eagles "Hotel California (Live 1976)"

9. 3 Doors Down "Here Without You"

10. Foreigner "I Want to Know What Love Is"

11. Staind "So Far Away"

12. Creedence Clearwater Revival "Have You Ever Seen The Rain"

13. Creed "My Own Prison"

14. Lynyrd Skynyrd "Free Bird"

15. Roy Orbison "Oh, Pretty Woman"

16. Def Leppard "Hysteria (Lyric Video)"

17. Alice in Chains "Nutshell"

18. Eagles "One of These Nights (live 76)"

19. Breaking Benjamin "Awaken"

20. Nickelback - "Burn It to the Ground (Lyric)”

21. ZZ Top "Legs"

22. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "You Don't Know How It Feels"

23. Nickelback "Rockstar"

24. Fleetwood Mac "Everywhere"

25. Queen "I Want to Break Free"

26. AC/DC "Thunderstruck"

27. Def Leppard "Hysteria"

28. Nickelback "How You Remind Me"

29. Ozzy Osbourne "Mama, I’m Coming Home (live on MTV – 1992)"

30. Eagles "Take It Easy"

31. Eagles "Lyin' Eyes"

32. Gerry Rafferty "Right Down the Line"

33. The Beatles "Come Together"

34. Disturbed "The Sound of Silence"

35. Pink Floyd "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"

36. Cheap Trick "The Flame"

37. Thrice "Black Honey"

38. Creed "One Last Breath"

39. Greta Van Fleet "Highway Tune"

40. Huey Lewis & The News "The Power Of Love"

41. Nickelback "Photograph"

42. Alannah Myles "Black Velvet"

43. Ozzy Osbourne "No More Tears"

44. Los Enanitos Verdes "Lamento Boliviano"

45. Treaty Oak Revival "Bad State of Mind"

46. Ghost "Lachryma"

47. Blue Öyster Cult "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"

48. The Outfield "Your Love"

49. Ambrosia "How Much I Feel (No Timing)"

50. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Heart "What About Love (Live)"

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Top 50 Hard Rock & Metal Music Videos 🇺🇸

This week’s ranking of the most popular Hard Rock & Metal music videos on YouTube.

1. Linkin Park "In the End”

2. Disturbed "The Sound of Silence"

3. Metallica "Nothing Else Matters"

4. Metallica "Enter Sandman (Live with the SFSO)"

5. Avenged Sevenfold "Hail to the King"

6. Bad Wolves "Zombie"

7. I Prevail "Into Hell"

8. Sleep Token "Emergence"

9. Sleep Token "Caramel"

10. System Of A Down "Chop Suey!"

11. Linkin Park "Up From the Bottom"

12. Pierce The Veil "Karma Police"

13. Three Days Grace "Dominate"

14. Pierce The Veil "King for a Day (feat. Kellin Quinn)"

15. Sleep Token "Gethsemane"

16. Sleep Token "Dangerous"

17. Evanescence "Afterlife"

18. Sleep Token "Look To Windward"

19. Sleep Token "Damocles"

20. TOOL "Schism"

21. AJ Dispirito "♫BITE ME♫ (feat. Zephyrianna)"

22. Disturbed "Down with the Sickness"

23. BABYMETAL & Slaughter To Prevail "Song 3"

24. Disturbed "I Will Not Break"

25. Three Days Grace "Apologies"

26. Metallica "Master of Puppets (Charlotte, NC - May 31, 2025)"

27. Sleep Token "Provider"

28. Sleep Theory "Static"

29. Sleep Token "Even In Arcadia"

30. Megadeth "Symphony Of Destruction"

31. Electric Callboy "Elevator Operator"

32. Pantera "This Love"

33. Dan Vasc "Glorious Death” ft. Eric July

34. BABYMETAL & Poppy "from me to u"

35. Black Sabbath "Iron Man"

36. Metallica "Whiskey in the Jar"

37. PRESIDENT "Fearless"

38. Deftones "Pink Maggit"

39. Volbeat "By a Monster’s Hand"

40. I Prevail "Violent Nature"

41. Metallica "Enter Sandman (Live)"

42. Sleep Token "Emergence"

43. Lorna Shore "Oblivion"

44. Linkin Park "Heavy Is the Crown"

45. Linkin Park "Heavy Is The Crown (League of Legends Worlds 2024 Anthem)"

46. Linkin Park "Two Faced"

47. Citizen Soldier "Bulletproof"

48. Ghost "Satanized"

49. Disturbed "Land of Confusion"

50. Type O Negative "I Don't Wanna Be Me”

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BRIT Certifications 🇬🇧

BIFFY CLYRO
“Space”
(Warner Records) 2020
SILVER SINGLE

DEFTONES
Saturday Night Wrist
(Maverick) 2006
SILVER ALBUM

DEFTONES
“Sextape”
(Reprise) 2010
SILVER SINGLE

JET
“Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
(Rhino) 2003
2x PLATINUM SINGLE

NICKELBACK
“How You Remind Me”
(Roadrunner) 2001
4x PLATINUM SINGLE

SLIPKNOT
“Left Behind”
(Roadrunner) 2001
SILVER SINGLE

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YUNGBLUD
Idols
(Capitol Records)
14,000 Sales + SEA 🇺🇸
11,000 Album Sales 🇺🇸

• No. 1 🇬🇧🇧🇪🇫🇷

• No. 2 🇩🇪

• No. 4 🇦🇺🇦🇹

• No. 73 🇺🇸

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