CHARTS: Top rock & metal albums France – Week of January 3

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Discover the official charts of Rock & Metal albums in France SNEP/SCPP/OCC for week 2 (from January 3 to 9, 2025).

The top 5 rock and metal remain in the charts at the start of the year. So From Zero of LinkinPark, Babel Babel ofIndochina, Songs of a Lost World of The Cure, the final album of Shaka Ponk And Rush! of Maneskin maintain their position.

Hackney Diamondsthe youngest of Rolling Stonesmakes a comeback and is in 10th place in the ranking, while the best of Scots from Texas moves from 26th to 15th place. Side Louise Attaqueif the recent compilation Loves tumbles five places, the album Planet Earth made a spectacular rise from 62nd to 29th position. We can thus draw a parallel with Ghostincluding the last live, Rite Here Rite Nowlost four places, going from 19th to 23rd, while the album Impera moves from 81st to 38th place.

The French public's appetite for these musical aesthetics is not only found in the charts, as the SNEP general director notes, noting that “Hellfest is also the biggest festival in France. »

Discover the complete ranking on the SNEP website.

Find this ranking also on the sites of other partner media: Rock Hard and Hard Force.

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THE METHODOLOGY OF THIS OFFICIAL RANKING

Are eligible for Top Rock & Metal the albums of novelties (marketed for less than three years) rock directories and metal, informed as such by the distributor. This ranking holds sales account of supports as well that farms digital audio and video, according to defined parameters by profession and transcribed in thethe rules of the top developed by the SNEP. The stated aim is to “show the richness and diversity of musical successes that adopted these aesthetics,” explains Alexandre Lasch, general director of SNEP, to the editorial staff. A new classification which fits into a perspective already put in place by the organization: “We had already set up classifications with classical and jazz. We therefore wanted to show more of the successes of rock and metal in France. »

Find this ranking in WECB:

  • Every Friday, in our weeklynotably in issue 180, available from this Friday December 6
  • On the website www.rollingstone.fr every week
  • On our social networks
  • Every month in the monthly paper with trend analysis, the monthly ranking is available in our issue 168, with Bruce Springsteen and Zach Bryan on the cover, available via our online store.
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