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While Metallica’s “72 Seasons” rules the U.K. Album Chart, it will debut at #2 on the Billboard 200 (dated April 29th). Selling 146,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week of release the set marks the band’s 12th Top 10-charting album. In the U.K., Metallica’s eleventh studio effort outsold the rest of…
Linkin Park’s “Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition,” which celebrates the band’s sophomore album, is #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums Chart. In addition to the original album, the re-packaged set contains previously unreleased tracks. “Lost,” a showcase for Chester Bennington’s riveting vocals, failed to make the original album’s final track listing. However, earlier this year, the…
Billboard, for no particular reason, has published a list of the Top 10 Tours of All-Time. #1 is Elton John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” trek has garnered more than $800-million. Here’s an overview of the list… #9 – “AC/DC: Black Ice World Tour” (’08-10) with a paltry $442-million. #6 – The Rolling Stones “No Filter…
System Of A Down’s “Chop Suey!” has passed one-billion streams on Spotify. It is the first System Of A Down track to reach the milestone. However, this comes over two years after the song exceeded the one-billion mark on YouTube. “Chop Suey!” was the first single from System Of A Down’s ’01 second album “Toxicity.” It has been certified as…
The guitar Eddie Van Halen used in the music video for Van Halen‘s “Hot For Teacher” has sold for $3,932,00 during a 4/18 auction at Sotheby’s. It was Van Halen’s primary guitar in ’83 – ’84. “Hot For Teacher” appeared on Van Halen‘s album “1984.” The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) called for the song/video to be pulled from both the radio and television due…
Graham Sayle, a longtime U.K. hardcore Punk devotee, fronts High Vis. He and his bandmates faced difficult childhoods, dead-end jobs and saw friends and family members perish in a toxic environment. To Sayle Punk was “a vehicle for being pissed off.” Formed in ’16, Hi Vis released their debut album, “No Sense No Feeling” three…
Fall Out Boy’s “So Much (for) Stardust” debuted at #6 on the April 8th edition of the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 64,000 album-equivalent units. Fall Out Boy’s eighth album is their seventh consecutive Top 10 effort. “So Much (for) Stardust” also sits at #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums survey. The set contains the…
NCAA banned Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” during the first round NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament last Friday night. The Virginia Tech Hokies have long used the song as entrance music. Did it get banned because the Hokies didn’t have permission to play the track from Metallica‘s self-title ’91 set (The Black Album”)? No, they had clearance from…
Any band that starts out covering Blink 182 and takes their name from the lyrics in a New Found Glory song (“Head On Collision”) is pretty heavily steeped in Pop Punk. All Time Low started in ’03, while band members were still in high school. They hadn’t even graduated when their debut EP, ’04’s “The…
Nickelback was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during the 52nd annual Juno Awards in Edmonton, Alberta (3/13). The band has released 10 albums selling over 50 million copies worldwide. The following lists Gold & Platinum certifications in Canada and the U.S. (when applicable). Curb (1996) Canada – Gold (50,000 Units Sold) The State…