Best Selling Rock/Metal/Prog & more from charts around the world

Another entry in my "What is wrong with this country" rant.

 

From Japan's weekly top 50 album list this week:

7- Hiroki Moriuchi (pop rock)
8- Band-Maid
18- Hiroji Miyamoto (peak #1)
22- Mr Children (peak #1)
25- Survive Said The Prophet
28- Miyashita Yuu (pop rock)
37- Monkey Majik (pop rock)
40- Spyair (peak #4)
47- Oisicle Melonpan
48- Lisa (peak #1)

Band-Maid:



Oisicle Melonpan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_JqXie0_4

Survive Said the Prophet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1xHp45ZsrU

Spyair:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03BzZld9lvE


Monkey Majik:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK1wwgMpFDg

 

Any band with 10 number one albums is big.

 

Absolutely. Rammstein are incredibly huge but from the perspective of many on this board, they are a minor band. They sold out stadiums in minutes all over Europe and were even set to play stadiums in North America before covid which is pretty incredible.

They dominated the European charts with their last release. Like I mentioned, they had 9 albums charting in Germany simultaneously (something you never see) and the chart performance for the 2019 album all over the world was insane:


Austrian Albums 1
Belgian Albums 1
Belgian Albums 1
Danish Albums 1
Dutch Albums 1
Finnish Albums 1
French Albums 1
German Albums 1
Norwegian Albums 1
Polish Albums 1
Portuguese Albums 1
Swiss Albums 1
Czech Albums 2
Hungarian Albums 2
Latvian Albums 2
Spanish Albums 2
Swedish Albums 2
Scottish Albums 2
Mexican Albums 3
UK Albums 3
Greek Albums 4
Lithuanian Albums ( 4
Australian Albums 5
Italian Albums 5
Canadian Albums 5
US 9
Irish Albums 11
New Zealand Albums 18
Japanese Albums 39

 

I usually post about the album charts but some people might find this one of interest. Ling tosite Sigure is a band perhaps best described as a progressive rock/post-hardcore trio has just hit the singles charts with their 8th top 20 single from 2008 to date.

 

As long as we are talking about singles, Italian rock legend Vasco Rossi scored a #1 single with this rock anthem earlier this month which features a fairly long solo (with a Steve Morse inspired passage from Italian ace guitarist Simone Sello no less):

 

Denmark and this week's top 40 album chart:


22- Jung (peak #3) (pop rock)
31- Kim Larsen (peak #2)


Jung:

 

Japan's the only market that I know of with a daily chart. When the mainstream's healthy, the underground's gonna thrive.

Folks like "traditional" progressive rock? They can check out Kenso or Asturias. You like stuff off the beaten path? Try Bondage Fruit and Ruins.

I love feedback, fuzztone, reverb and sustain. So I really like doom/drone/sludge/stoner. Boris hasn't made a bad record yet (IMO).

 

Fusion, you know that only American and British bands matter. Even Canadian and Australian bands are an afterthought around here.

"Dude, Rammstein is huge. They've got ten number one albums in Germany, man!"
"Well when they hit number one here; get back to me"

 

From Spain's top 100 albums this week:

19- AC/DC (peak #1)
20- Dani Martin (peak #1) (pop rock)
24- Bruce Springsteen (peak #2)
25- Louis Tomlinson (peak #4) (pop rock)
32- Bunbury (peak #3)
36- Leiva (peak #1)
46- Leiva (peak #1)
49- Jarabe de Palo (peak #5)
54- La Oreja de Van Gogh (peak #1) (pop rock)
65- Iron Maiden (peak #8)
66- Arctic Monkeys (peak #8)
70- Queen (peak #2)
75- Passenger
80- La Maravillosa Orquesta del Alcohol (peak #23)
87- Black Keys
96- Izal (peak #2)
98- Joaquin Sabina (peak #2)


VARIOUS:

16- Rozalen (peak #1)
30- El Barrio (peak #1)
58- El Arrebato (peak #3)
64- Manolo García (peak #1)


La Oreja de Van Gogh:



Jarabe de Palo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kuldXgoXOY

La Maravillosa Orquesta del Alcohol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvZTmV_PYUw

Bunbury:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yemdx8o9FY

Dani Martin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQW_0ZGtMQ

 

Austria's top 75 albums this week:

7- AC/DC (peak #1)
23- Paul McCartney (peak #2)
25- Bruce Springsteen (peak #1)
61- Passenger
62- Rammstein (peak #1)
69- AnnenMayKantereit (peak #3)

AnnenMayKantereit:

 

Rock from Poland's weekly top 50:

3- Elton John (peak #2)
16- Kult (peak #1)
21- Metallica (peak #4)
27- Metallica (peak #1)
28- Metallica (peak #20)
29- Metallica (peak #4)
30- Metallica (peak #7)
32- Metallica (peak #19)
35- AC/DC (peak #2)
37- Pink Floyd (peak #8)


Kult:

 

Rock from Hungary and the top 40 albums:

1- Feró 75 (collection)
2- Omega (peak #1)
3- Ákos (peak #1)
5- Hungarica (peak #4)
7- Dinamit (peak #3)
9- Kowalsky meg a Vega (peak #1)
10- Mandoki Soulmates (peak #1)
13- Leander Kills (peak #2)
14- Tankcsapda (peak #1)
17- AC/DC (peak #1)
25- Rómeó Vérzik (peak #3)
29- Koncz Zsuzsa (peak #4)
31- Metallica (peak #10)
32- Mobilmánia (peak #3)
34- Van Halen
36- Van Halen


VARIOUS:

40- Charlie (peak #22)


Leander Kills:



Hungarica:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUriissEP2E

Mandoki Soulmates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upxGZC-_KsA

 

That's quite the Metallica-fest. I wonder why?

 

Good question...not sure on that one. It sometimes happens during a tour but it's been going on since November actually.

 

Curious.

 

From the Italian top 100 albums this week:


3- Pinguini Tattici Nucleari (peak #2) (pop rock)
9- Pinguini Tattici Nucleari (peak #2) (pop rock)
11- Ligabue (peak #1)
22- Renato Zero (peak #2) (pop rock)
41- Renato Zero (peak #3) (pop rock)
45- Bring Me the Horizon
59- Pink Floyd (peak #4)
60- Bruce Springsteen (peak #1)
61- Nirvana (peak #20)
67- AC/DC (peak #1)
79- Arctic Monkeys (peak #4)
84- Imagine Dragons (peak #3)
91- Maneskin (peak #1)
94- Renato Zero (peak #3) (pop rock)
98- Vasco Rossi (peak #1)
100- Louis Tomlinson (peak #12) (pop rock)

Bring Me the Horizon:

 

From the Dutch top 100 albums this week:

13- Danny Vera (peak #4) (Americana pop)
15- Danny Vera (peak #1) (Americana pop)
20- Bruce Springsteen (peak #1)
41- Bring Me the Horizon
44- Fleetwood Mac (peak #1)
51- Asphyx
53- Di-rect (peak #2)
54- Arctic Monkeys (peak #1)
60- Bløf (peak #1)
78- Dire Straits (peak #1)
80- Nothing But Thieves (peak #5)
83- Passenger (peak #18)
85- Imagine Dragons (peak #2) (pop rock)
95- Beatles (peak #1)
96- AC/DC (peak #2)


VARIOUS:

26- Wardruna


Di-rect:




Asphyx:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnlmBNeopmE


Wardruna:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDMIbVFCz7A

 

I remember the Tactical Nuclear Penguins from your last thread. I'd meant to explore further but never managed to get round to it so this is a timely reminder!

 

From the UK top 100 albums this week:

1- Bring Me the Horizon
9- Queen (peak #1)
13- Fleetwood Mac (peak #5)
16- Elton John (peak #5)
25- Arctic Monkeys (peak #1)
33- Oasis (peak #1)
34- Oasis (peak #1)
36- Fleetwood Mac (peak #1)
37- Arctic Monkeys (peak #1)
42- David Bowie (peak #5)
44- Beatles (peak #1)
49- David Bowie (peak #5)
52- Steve Hackett
56- Passenger (peak #2)
59- Elvis (peak #2)
64- Foo Fighters (peak #4)
68- Oasis (peak #1)
73- Lonely the Brave
75- Green Day (peak #22)
79- Red Hot Chili Peppers (peak #4)
81- Dead Daisies
82- Killers (peak #5)
90- Gerry Cinnamon (peak #1)
97- Guns N Roses (peak #1)
100- Billy Joel (peak #7)


VARIOUS:

50- Wardruna


Steve Hackett:



Dead Daisies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBnz2bm5KE

Lonely the Brave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6rS4igr05c

 

Yea they have really taken Italy by storm and even have multiple singles simultaneously on the singles chart as well...and have a great name

 

Sweden and the top 60 albums this week:

25- Ulf Lundell (peak #1)
44- Markus Krunegård (peak #13 (pop rock)
48- Fleetwood Mac (peak #18)
55- Lars Winnerbäck (peak #1)

Ulf Lundell:

 

I'm assuming they are named after the Brew Dog beer, which at 32% is stretching the definition a bit. It was the world's strongest for a while but has been surpassed a couple of times since including Brew Dog's own Sink The Bismarck ( a ridiculous 415 proof!)

I've tried Tactical Nuclear Penguin. It was like the beer equivalent of the syrup pubs use with soda to create coca cola. Add some water and it might (might!) have been palatable.

 

Good to see Steve Hackett still bothering the chart compilers.

Lonely Are The Brave are a new name to me. The song posted is quite decent.

 

Germany's top 100 albums this week:

3- Asphynx
4- Bring Me the Horizon
5- AC/DC (peak #1)
6- Dead Daisies
7- Böhse Onkelz
11- Therion
12- Böhse Onkelz
14- Steve Hackett
16- Böhse Onkelz
18- Nervosa
24- Bruce Springsteen (peak #2)
27- Die Ärzte (peak #1)
33- Paul McCartney (peak #1)
36- W.E.T.
41- Saltatio Mortis (peak #1)
44- MajorVoice
46- AnnenMayKantereit (peak #4)
51- Passenger (peak #6)
52- Queen (peak #1)
54- Eric Clapton (peak #6)
57- Rammstein 49 (peak #1)
58- Ektomorf
59- Rea Garvey (peak #7)
68- Joe Cocker
71- Metallica (peak #1)
76- Pink Floyd (peak #5)
80- Rammstein (peak #2)
82- Linkin Park (peak #2)
87- AnnenMayKantereit
89- Dio (peak #52)
90- Beatles (peak #1)
93- ZSK (peak #3)
98- Pur (peak #3)
99- Roger Waters (peak #4)
100- Queen (peak #5)


VARIOUS:

2- Wardruna
60- Donald Byrd


Steve Hackett:



Therion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFC62uL9R1I

W.E.T. :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoFybZG0_I

Nervosa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKUgsbP7PXE

Ektomorf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOqknLJ3vkc