AC/DC’s brand new album, Power Up, has reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Power Up reached No. 1 on the strength of 117,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States for the week ending Nov. 19 — 111,000 which came directly from album sales while another 5,000 album equivalent units were earned through on-demand streams.
Metallica drummer/cofounder Lars Ulrich said during an appearance on Rolling Stone’s Musicians On Musicians series that the band is a few weeks into the serious writing for the follow up to their 2016 album “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct”.
Machine Gun Kelly’s upcoming musical adaptation of his pop-punk album Tickets To My Downfall is set to arrive next year.
Rush’s Neil Peart was one of the best drummers in music history with a legendary drum setup. One of Peart’s early era drum kits has hit the auction block with the bidding expecting to reach somewhere between $80,000-$120,000.
KISS have announced that they will be hosting a special New Year’s Eve Livestream event dubbed “KISS 2020 Goodbye” from Atlantis, Dubair on December 31st. The show is billed as “Filmed with more than 50 cameras and 360-degree views, this show produced by Landmarks Live can be seen globally with ticketing technology and livestream powered by TIXR and experienced like no other virtual concert before.”
