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

Yep, I was glad to see Steve Hackett doing well and in Germany he made it to #14 even! Lonely Are the Brave are definitely one of those bands one might notice going through the charts like this which we might not otherwise single out. They are also another one of those bands whose first album was pretty recent (2014) and which charted very well in the UK too (#14).

 

Always found W.E.T. to be slightly disappointing. Such a pedigree yet somehow they contrive to be less than the sum of their parts. It's all relative though. I'd still be happy if they were a staple of radio, as opposed to what we usually get.

 

I noticed Lonely Are The Brave are British. Just based on that one song, on the off-chance that we ever get live music again, I'd certainly go and see them if they played near me.

 

My sentiments exactly. I much prefer other things from Soto and Eclipse. This is fairly generic all things considered but I wish that were the biggest problem with the current music scene(s).

 

Caught my eye, too. Here's the chart excerpt, but after 15 minutes of various searches for any explanation over the past few months, I can find none. One would reasonably expect that this phenomenon correlates with some sort of contemporary announcement, commercial campaign, or pop culture tie-in (i.e., promoted in a recent television show, radio programme, podcast, et al.), but my searches are probably missing Polish language sources that would provide an answer (which wouldn't help me anyway!). Where are our resident Poles? Help! Inquiring minds want to know.
21. Master Of Puppets
27. S&m (live)
28. Kill 'em All
29. Ride The Lightning
30. And Justice For All
32. Reload

Crazy!

 

I love Poland. It's a wonderful place and it's residents are charming and friendly but it's wacky enough for an anomaly like this to happen. They love their metal over there so all it would take would be Metallica appearing on a popular TV show and boom! They are back all over the charts.

Curiously, about ten years or so ago the same thing happened to AC/DC in the UK. All of a sudden, and for no reason I could ever work out, they suddenly had a bunch of singles in the upper reaches of the the charts.

 

Sometimes this will also happen when albums are released to various streaming services as happened with Tool not too long ago as well.

 

From this week's top 50 Australian albums chart:

3- Bring Me the Horizon
8- Lime Cordiale (peak #1)
14- Spacey Jane (peak #2)
16- AC/DC (peak #1)
19- Chris Wilson
23- Fleetwood Mac (peak #1)
27- Elton John (peak #3)
29- INXS (peak #1)
30- Cold Chisel (peak #2)
35- Tame Impala (peak #1)
41- Queen (peak #1)
46- Foo Fighters (peak #1)
47- Green Day (peak #16)


Cold Chisel:



Spacey Jane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxKuwlnx58g

Lime Cordiale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA9zNmjBdMM


Chris Wilson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXWxhG2Iq4k

 

Finland's latest weekly chart from the top 50 albums:

16- Arttu Wiskari (peak #1)
22- Bring Me the Horizon
26- Maustetytöt (peak #2)
27- Lauri Tähkä (peak #1) (pop rock)
28- Kollaa Kestää
37- Rammstein (peak #1)
38- Metallica (peak #4)
40- Vesku Jokinen (peak #17)
44- Mother Mother
46- AC/DC (peak #1)
47- Children of Bodom (peak #1)
49- Mana Mana (peak #37)


VARIOUS:

19- Wardruna
39- Topi Sorsakoski (peak #32)
41- Topi Sorsakoski (peak #13)

Mother Mother:



Arttu Wiskari:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpjx1miyPaM

 

Switzerland and the top 100 albums this week:

3- Dead Daisies
6- Bring Me the Horizon
7- W.E.T.
8- AC/DC (peak #1)
9- Passenger (peak #2)
11- Asphyx
12- Therion
20- Steve Hackett
23- Bruce Springsteen (peak #1)
28- Gotthard (peak #7)
32- Creye
48- Megawatt (peak #10)
50- Queen (peak #5)
63- Rea Garvey (peak #7)
68- Paul McCartney (peak #2)
73- Queen (peak #2)
74- Wig Wam
79- AC/DC (peak #18)
81- Magnum (peak #18)
83- Die Ärzte (peak #2)
94- Bruce SPringsteen (peak #1)


Various:

2- Wardruna
14- Brandão Faber Hunger (peak #2)
55- Keith Jarrett (peak #11)
92- Keith Jarrett (peak #14)
99- Gölä (peak #1)
100- Melody Gardot (peak #10)


Creye:




Steve Hackett:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LHxna8OoRw

Dead Daisies:

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

W.E.T. :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPJcLc-Kp9g

Therion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1h0pdsC6wQ

Asphyx:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zw241m3JRQ

 

The French top 100 albums chart this week:

20- Calogero (peak #1) (pop rock)
24- Francis Cabrel (peak #1)
32- AC/DC (peak #1)
48- Queen (peak #7)
60- Queen (peak #56)
76- Bring Me the Horizon
92- Patrick Bruel (peak #1) (pop rock)

VARIOUS (jazz, variety):

65- Wardruna
91- Melody Gardot (peak #18)

Calogero:



Patrick Bruel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24AeS2uYG1k

 

This week's rock from the Czech top 100 albums:


30- Imagine Dragons (peak #1)
31- Imagine Dragons (peak #2)
35- David Stypka & Bandjeez
40- Nirvana (peak #29)
49- Metallica (peak #29)
51- Tsunami (peak #2)
53- Jelen (peak #4)
55- Chinaski (peak #5)
56- Michal Šindelář
57- Škwor (peak #1)
58- Tublatanka
63- Queen (peak #2)
66- AC/DC (peak #3)
67- Aneta Langerova (peak #2)
78- Lumineers (peak #31)
81- Tri sestry (peak #25)
84- Chinaski (peak #1)
90- Linkin Park (peak #1)
91- Olympic (peak #2)

VARIOUS:

82- Wardruna

Aneta Langerova:



Michal Šindelář:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YernPMgY9-g

Olympic:

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

Tublatanka:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMHS9o8KIGU

Škwor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk71AUjztPQ

 

The new Therion tunes you've posted have been very enjoyable. Just sent for the new album. Creye sond promising too.

Conversely, The Dead Daisies look to have run their race, at least for me. It's been a case of diminishing returns for a while but the new stuff really isn't to my taste.

 

Glad you liked them Creye and Theron. I was never a big fan of Dead Daisies though I very much respect Doug Aldrich and Glenn Hughes. Still, as with other things, it's a luxury problem in today's environment

 

I enjoyed the first Dead Daisies album, with Noiseworks' Jon Stevens on vocals, very much indeed. They were never quite as good again, for me. But as you say, first world problems.

 

Austria's top 75 albums this week:

5- AC/DC (peak #1)
7- Bring Me the Horizon
8- Dead Daisies
18- Asphnx
25- Bruce Springsteen (peak #1)
45- Therion
56- Paul McCartney (peak #2)
59- Nirvana (peak #13)
71- Rammstein (peak #1)


VARIOUS:

1- Wardruna



Dead Daisies:



Therion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1h0pdsC6wQ

Asphyx:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zw241m3JRQ

Wardruna:

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

 

From Spain's top 100 albums this week:

9- Heroes del Silencio
15- Heroes del Silencio
22- Dani Martin (peak #1) (pop rock)
28- Bring Me the Horizon
31- AC/DC (peak #1)
34- Leiva (peak #1)
38- Bruce Springsteen (peak #2)
45- Louis Tomlinson (peak #4)
46- Bunbury (peak #3)
60- La Oreja de Van Gogh (peak #1) (pop rock)
62- Leiva (peak #1)
63- Beatles (peak #1)
74- Adventus
77- La Maravillosa Orquesta del Alcohol (peak #23)
81- Izal (peak #2)
82- Dead Daisies
95- Joaquin Sabina (peak #2)
98- Jarabe de Palo (peak #5)

VARIOUS:

16- Rozalen (peak #1)
43- El Barrio (peak #1)
71- Manolo García (peak #1)
75- El Arrebato (peak #3)




Adventus:



Heroes del Silencio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKe_p0i8f28

Leiva:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMSTr9JOhBE

La Oreja de Van Gogh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEqydjm1AP0

Izal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnTENXZc1jU

 

Denmark and this week's top 40 album chart:


21- Jung (peak #3) (pop rock)
37- Kim Larsen (peak #2)


Jung:

 

Gotta love a band called Van Gogh's Ear. Good song too.

Just looked them up. Eight album releases, eight Spanish chart toppers. That's quite a run! Seemingly popular with Spanish speakers in North America too.

 

Oh yea La Oreja de Van Gogh are a huge band not only in Spain (with 11 albums at #1 including lives and compilations) but also in the Americas.

In addition to topping the US Latin charts, they had 5 albums go #1 in Colombia and Chile with another 4 going #1 in Argentina and Mexico. They even had 12 singles go #1 in Spain and 8 singles go #1 in Mexico. Unfortunately chart coverage is spotty in Latin America so it's hard to get a full picture but they are very, very popular.

Were you also familiar with Heroes del Silencio and Bunbury? They are a huge band/solo act you might want to investigate.

 

I've heard a few tracks by Bunbury, possibly in the previous incarnation of this thread but I hadn't made the connection that he was the frontman for Heroes Del Silencio. I remember them from a couple of decades ago. Have they reformed or is it new life for old records?

 

Bunbury was the lead vocalist for Heroes del Silencio (new life for the their albums). His newer stuff is perennially on the charts in Spain and very popular elsewhere too.

Here's a video from him with 242 million views:

 

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

4- Yorushika (pop rock)
11- Hiroji Miyamoto (peak #1) (pop rock)
16- Bring Me the Horizon
19- Hiroki Moriuchi (peak #7) (pop rock)
21- Michael Schenker
28- Mr Children (peak #1)
34- Toshiki Masuda (pop rock)
44- Yoru no Honki Dansu

VARIOUS:

24- Keiichi Suzuki

Michael Schenker:



Yoru no Honki Dansu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22M7P2_Dr0

Hiroji Miyamoto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shMW6xhNtis

Mr. Children:

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

Keiichi Suzuki:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az1MwTefsYw

 

Rock from Poland's weekly top 50:


10- Kult (peak #1)
11- Bring Me the Horizon
12- Elton John (peak #2)
14- Metallica (peak #3)
16- Metallica (peak #1)
17- Metallica
18- Metallica (peak #4)
22- Metallica (peak #7)
23- Metallica (peak #19)
25- Therion
30- AC/DC (peak #2)
34- Kazik (peak #1)
48- Metallica (peak #3)

VARIOUS:

8- Wardruna


Therion:



Kazik:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBhXOU-v1Ts

Bring Me the Horizon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=racmy7Y9P4M

 

From the Italian top 100 albums this week:


5- Pinguini Tattici Nucleari (peak #2) (pop rock)
10- Pinguini Tattici Nucleari (peak #2) (pop rock)
11- Steven Wilson
15- Ligabue (peak #1)
18- Renato Zero (peak #2) (pop rock)
41- Renato Zero (peak #2) (pop rock)
47- Renato Zero (peak #3) (pop rock)
61- Le Orme
63- Nirvana (peak #20)
64- Bruce Springsteen (peak #1)
66- Louis Tomlinson (peak #12) (pop rock)
83- Pink Floyd (peak #4)
84- Imagine Dragons (peak #3)
87- Arctic Monkeys (peak #4)
88- Oasis (peak #11)
90- Maneskin (peak #1)


Le Orme:




Steven Wilson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSvdLcS62ZM