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Neilstein Soundscam: Five Finger Sucker Punch

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Five Finger Death Punch have a #2 Billboard record with 112k first week units shifted of their new album The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Vol. 1. Huh, how ’bout that. Vanilla metal sells.

More sales numbers this week and every week at Metal Insider, including debuts by Legion, Misery Signals, Mercenary and more.

1. ↔ Amon Amarth / Peak: 1 / Last Week: 1 / Weeks On: 7

Albums sold last week: 2,300 (Deceiver of the Gods, week six)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 4.9% (543,142 likes · 26,978 talking about this)
YouTube: 802,000 (“Deceiver of the Gods” official premiere)

Killing. All the metrics are ridiculously strong. Third week in a row at #1.

2. ↑ Black Sabbath / Peak: 2 / Last Week: 2 / Weeks On: 5

Albums sold last week: 7,875 (13, week eight)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 2.2% (8,229,127 likes · 187,735 talking about this)
YouTube: 3.56 million (“God is Dead?” official stream)

Also killing. Reports from the road about Ozzy’s voice are baaaaaad, though.

3. ↑ Norma Jean / Peak: 3 / Last Week: 4 / Weeks On: 2

Albums sold last week: 0 (Wrongdoers, August 6)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 3.2% (200,125 likes · 6,448 talking about this)
YouTube: 50,000 (“If You Got it At Five, You Got it At Firty” official audio)

FB Engagement percentage is rising but could still be a lot better, especially with the band killing on Summer Slaughter nightly. Stream Wrongdoers in full right here.

4. Chimaira / Peak: 4 / Last Week: n/a / Weeks On: 1

Albums sold last week: 7,425 (Crown of Phantoms, debut)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 6.1% (276,279 likes · 16,879 talking about this)
YouTube: 98,000 (“No Mercy” official video)

That is an incredibly solid first week number for a band that has just one original member left, about which much has been made. I think it speaks to the quality of the material.

5. ↓ Battlecross / Peak: 3 / Last Week: 3 / Weeks On: 3

Albums sold last week: 720 (War of Will, week four)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 11.2% (42,137 likes · 4,717 talking about this)
YouTube: 71,000 (“Never Coming Back” official video)

Barely a drop in albums sold, which is great to see (merch table sales on the Mayhem Tour, I’d venture to guess). FB percentage still ridiculously strong.

5. ↓ Philip H. Anselmo and the Illegals / Peak: 5 / Last Week: 5 / Weeks On: 2

Albums sold: 3,175 (Walk Through Exits Only, week three)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 3.7% (637,057 likes · 23,570 talking about this)
YouTube: 128,000 (“Bedridden” official video)

The tour is underway, the album is out and the PR machine is rolling. Good buzz all around.

6. ↑ The Winery Dogs / Peak: 6 / Last Week: 7 / Weeks On: 2

Albums sold last week: 4,100 (The Winery Dogs, week two)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 22% (47,902 likes · 10,771 talking about this)
YouTube: 594,000 (“Elevate” official video)

Yeah these numbers are all ridiculous! People clearly care.

7. ↑ Revocation / Peak: 7 / Last Week: 8 / Weeks On: 3

Albums sold last week: 0 (Revocation, August 6)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 5.9% (57,641 likes · 3,418 talking about this)
YouTube: 50,000 (“The Hive” official stream)

It’s out! — stream it here. Wiping the floor with faces nightly on Summer Slaughter.

8. ↑ Avenged Sevenfold / Peak: 8 / Last Week: 10 / Weeks On: 3

Albums sold last week: 0 (Hail to the King, August 27)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 1.3% Fan Activity (14,306,642 likes · 191,267 talking about this)
YouTube: 3.01 million (“Hail to the King” official premiere)

Yeah this album is gonna be HUGE when it finally comes out.

9. ↓ Queens of the Stone Age / Peak: 2 / Last Week: 6 / Weeks On: 6

Albums sold last week: 3,900 (…Like Clockwork, week eight)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 0.7% (2,227,120 likes · 16,510 talking about this)
YouTube: 799,000 (“…Like Clockwork” official video)

Album sales are leveling off but still so strong.

10. Exhumed / Peak: 10 / Last Week: n/a / Weeks On: 1

Albums sold last week: 0 (Necrocracy, out August 6)
Facebook Fan Engagement: 4.3% (92,428 likes · 4,054 talking about this)
YouTube: 25,000 (“Coins Upon the Eyes” official video)

 

This band deserves all the success they get. So under-appreciated! Stream the new album in full here.

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