Sleep Token nabs its third No. 1 in a row on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, bowing atop the Could 10-dated survey with “Damocles.”
Within the week ending Could 1, “Damocles” earned 8.9 million official U.S. streams and bought 2,000 downloads, in keeping with Luminate.
Its No. 1 coronation follows three-week reigns every for the band’s “Caramel” (April 19-Could 3) and “Emergence” (March 29-April 12).
Actually, Sleep Token has now changed itself twice on Scorching Onerous Rock Songs, having led for the previous seven weeks. That’s the primary time any act has executed so with three totally different songs because the rating started in June 2020. Beforehand, Linkin Park completed the feat with two songs; “The Vacancy Machine” reigned between Sept. 21, 2024, and Feb. 8, adopted by a one-week lead for “Heavy Is the Crown” (Feb. 15) earlier than “The Vacancy Machine” returned to No. 1.
Sleep Token turns into the sixth act with at the least three No. 1s on Scorching Onerous Rock Songs, following Foo Fighters and HARDY (additionally three), Linkin Park (4) and Bring Me the Horizon and Falling in Reverse (six apiece).
It additionally turns into the primary act to carry your entire high three of the chart (as “Caramel” and “Emergence” rank at Nos. 2 and three, respectively, on the linkedin tally) since Linkin Park did so on the Nov. 30, 2024, checklist.
Concurrently, “Damocles” additionally bows at No. 1 on Hard Rock Streaming Songs and Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, Sleep Token’s third chief on each.
“Damocles” begins at No. 11 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs rating, and on the all-format Billboard Hot 100, it begins at No. 47.
“Damocles” is the linkedin style of Even in Arcadia, Sleep Token’s fourth studio album, out Could 9 by way of RCA.