Metal by Numbers, 7/26: Linkin Park’s sad return; Silverstein’s biggest debut

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.

Well, we knew this might happen. Inevitably, when an artist dies, their sales increase. Old fans that grew up on a band’s music pick up the album that meant so much to them that they might have only had on CD or cassette.Others find listening to an artist’s music is the best way to mourn them. Either way, last week’s sad suicide of Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington found their albums returning to the chart, with One More Light, just nine weeks old, becoming the #2 most-sold album in the country, kept only from the top by their former Collision Course EP-mate Jay Z. Meanwhile, Canadian post-hardcore/emo band Silverstein had a great debut week.

Notable Debuts:

Silverstein, Dead Reflection (Rise)
Debut #13
9,900 sold

This is the band’s fifth album since 2011, but the band continue to sell well, so maybe look for another one next year.

Various Artists, Punk Goes Pop, Vol. 7 (Fearless)

Debut #26
5,400 sold

If you like hearing bands you don’t know covering pop songs you don’t like, you’re one of the many that picked this one up. Then again, maybe Amity Affliction covering The Weeknd’s “I Can’t Feel My Face” is good? (OK, they’re one of the few bands we do know).

Dayseeker, Dreaming is Sinking /// Waking is Rising (Spinefarm)
Debut #109
1,500 sold

The metalcore band’s first record for Spinefarm is a concept album.

Boris, Dear (Sargent House)
Debut #117
1,450 sold

This is the Japanese band’s follow-up to the three full length albums they put out in 2015. But hey, Tool, do whatever you want.

Integrity, Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume (Relapse)
Debut #151
1,150 sold

That’s a pretty modest debut for such a crushing album. W’ere going to be seeing this one on a lot of year-end top ten lists, we’re thinking.

Bloodclot, Up In Arms (Metal Blade)
780 sold

Cr0 Mags founder John Joseph’s hardcore supergroup (feat. former members of Queens of the Stone Age and Danzig) has a pretty solid first week.

Expulsion, Nightmare Future (Relapse)
330 sold

What do you get when you combine members of Exhumed, Repulsion, Intronaut and Lightning Swords of Death? over 300 of you found out.

Edguy, Monuments (Nuclear Blast)

200 sold

A two-disc compilation album to celebrate the German power metal band’s 25th anniversary, this also contains five new songs. Seems like there wasn’t too much of an appetite for it here though.

Notable Sales:

Linkin Park, One More Light (Warner Bros.)
#2 (from 65)
18,00 sold

A 730% increase from last week, and that’s with only three days of sales after Bennington’s death.

Metallica, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (Blackened)
#21 (from 19)
6,550 sold

This sells almost exactly what it did last week.

Nickelback, Feed the Machine (BMG)

#29 (from 22)

4,900 sold

This continues to drop in it’s fifth week, having sold 72,000 copies so far.

Stone Sour, Hydrograd (Roadrunner)

#37 (from 21)

6,300 sold

Dropping 34% from last week, this has sold about 41,000 in three weeks.

Various Artists, Vans Warped Tour 2017 (SideOneDummy)

#55 (from 43)

2,800 sold

The annual Warped Tour comp has sold about 13,000 so far, which isn’t band for a comp that pretty much only sells while the tour’s happening,

I Prevail, Lifelines (Fearless)
#111 (from 127)
1,500 sold

This album gets an impressive 25% boost, made more impressive when you factor in that it’s been on the charts for 37 weeks and has sold about 85,000 so far.