{"id":58997,"date":"2025-08-10T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58997\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:15:10","slug":"black-sabbath-hits-the-streaming-charts-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58997\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sabbath Hits The Streaming Charts For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Following Ozzy Osbourne’s death, Black Sabbath reaches two of Billboard’s streaming charts for the first time, in both instances with Paranoid. WANTAGH, NY – AUGUST 17: (L-R) Tommy Clufetos, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, and Tony Iommi perform onstage as Black Sabbath on “The End Tour” at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on August 17, 2016 in Wantagh, New York. (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/WireImage)<\/p>\n

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Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s death in July prompted fans around the world to revisit the catalog that helped change rock music forever, and that renewed attention has given Black Sabbath a string of new chart successes. This frame, the band breaks onto two of Billboard\u2019s streaming rankings for the first time, which is a rare sight for two different acts that got their start decades ago.<\/p>\n

Paranoid Debuts on Billboard\u2019s Streaming Chart<\/p>\n

Black Sabbath<\/a> earns its first appearance on the Top Streaming Albums chart as Paranoid opens at No. 40. The 1970 full-length is a landmark in hard rock history, but it\u2019s never ranked among the 50 most-streamed collections in the U.S. until this frame.<\/p>\n

Its arrival on the streaming-only tally suggests listeners aren\u2019t just pressing play on a single cut or two from the set, but rather, that they\u2019re consuming the project in full. All that streaming activity helps push Paranoid to six Billboard charts this week, and it reaches new peaks on two of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cParanoid\u201d Hits Streaming Songs for the First Time<\/p>\n

The title track \u201cParanoid\u201d<\/a> from the album of the same name also earns a first as it debuts at No. 43 on the Streaming Songs chart. The cut is currently featured on more than 10 Billboard tallies. While it launches on just one list this frame, it improves on nearly all of the others, hitting new highs on half a dozen of them.<\/p>\n

Black Sabbath\u2019s Catalog Climbs Following Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s Death<\/p>\n

Streams and sales typically spike in the days after an artist\u2019s passing, but Black Sabbath\u2019s numbers aren\u2019t simply holding, they\u2019re growing. Osbourne\u2019s solo material is also growing in popularity and rising on the charts, and streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music are playing a huge role in the rediscovery of many of Osbourne\u2019s biggest hits and most popular albums.<\/p>\n

Released in 1970, Paranoid helped define heavy metal, with tracks like \u201cWar Pigs,\u201d \u201cIron Man,\u201d and its title cut becoming staples of the genre. More than five decades later, the set is still a classic, and at the moment, it\u2019s enjoying quite the renaissance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Ozzy Osbourne’s death, Black Sabbath reaches two of Billboard’s streaming charts for the first time, in both…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[38807,38809,38803,38805,38802,49,48,75,341,38808,38801,38804,38810,38806],"class_list":["post-58997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-black-sabbath-billboard-charts","tag-black-sabbath-career-highs","tag-black-sabbath-chart-success","tag-black-sabbath-first-streaming-chart","tag-black-sabbath-streaming-milestone","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-ozzy-osbourne-chart-impact","tag-ozzy-osbourne-death","tag-ozzy-osbourne-legacy","tag-ozzy-osbourne-tribute-listening","tag-paranoid-streaming-debut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}